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loss of those that react, when his neighbor is permitted to place un- 

 tested cattle in an adjoining pasture after he has his herd cleaned 

 up? 



In my opinion but little headway can be made in the battle 

 against bovine tuberculosis until the owner of the cow is more will- 

 ing and anxious than any other man to clean up his herd, and laws 

 passed to which he does not subscribe would be a dead letter. His 

 co-operation may be most readily secured when you can convince 

 him that it is to his own financial advantage to rid his herd of this 

 disease. That it would pay him, we are convinced. The tubercu- 

 lous cow in a herd renders all other cattle in that herd liable to in- 

 fection and all hogs following such an animal are pretty sure to 

 contract the disease, and tuberculosis among hogs is a question 

 that the farmers of Iowa should reckon with now before it becomes 

 more widespread. 



Iowa is in a large measure indebted to some of the eastern states 

 for the introduction of this disease into our midst. As a number 

 of years since, when this question was being agitated in the east a 

 large number of dairy cows that had reacted to the tuberculine test 

 were shipped into Iowa, particularly in the neighborhood of our 

 cities, and sold to the local dairymen and these cows became the 

 source of infection to the herds into which they were thus intro- 

 duced. This in the days before Iowa dairymen had heard anything 

 about tuberculosis in cattle. This agitation has been conducive to 

 much good, in that it has aroused the people as nothing else could 

 have done to the danger of uisng dirty and unsanitary milk. 



LAW MAKING APPROPRIATION FOR THE STATE DAIRY ASSOCI- 

 ATION. 



Section 1. Whenever the organization now existing in the State of 

 Iowa and known as the Iowa State Dairy Association shall have filed with 

 the Secretary of State of the State of Iowa verified proofs of its organi- 

 zation, the names of its president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer, 

 and that it has one hundred (100) bona fide members, such association 

 shall be recognized as the Iowa State Dairy Association of the State of 

 Iowa, and be entitled to the benefits of this act. 



Sec. 2. For the purpose of aiding in the promotion and development of 

 the dairy industry of the State of Iowa, such association shall cause to be 

 made such inspection of dairy farms, dairy cattle, dairy barns and other 

 buildings and appliances used in connection therewith, dairy products and 

 methods as they shall deem best and shall arrange to furnish such instruc- 

 tion and general assistance, either by institutes or otherwise, as they may 

 deem proper to advance the general interests of the dairy industry of the 

 State. 



