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have today do more to put the farmer right than all of the 

 urging and talking that can be done. My advice would be to 

 carry on this campaign of education. In three years' time if you 

 are not co-operating you are different from what we are. We 

 started in Wisconsin four years ago. Prior to that time we 

 were getting only about a thousand tested a year ; the next year 

 we got 20,000, the next year 30,000 and last year 55,000, and, 

 gentlemen, this calendar year in the State of Wisconsin we will 

 have over 100,000 head of cattle voluntarily tested. The first 

 twelve days in January we tested 1,260 head and there are at 

 least ten in a herd. We are 50,000 doses behind ; we cannot get 

 it or buy it fast enough. We are getting all the United States 

 Government can furnish us. We have bought 25,000 closes from 

 proprietory concerns in the United States. That is the result of 

 an educated campaign such as this is. If you would carry on 

 this educated campaign you would find your people would rise 

 and respond and would want to take care of it for their own 

 good. I do not believe there is so great a difference between 

 Wisconsin and Illinois. Remove this from politics and get down 

 to bedrock. 



Member : What per cent did you find in Wisconsin were 

 affected ? 



Prof. Russell : When we began five years ago about twelve 

 per cent of all animals. It is less than two per cent now; it is 

 going down. The result shows now that we have gotten prac- 

 tically on top. We have found the worst places and put those 

 fires out. The last Legislature passed a law that no animal can 

 be sold in Wisconsin for breeding or dairy purposes unless a 

 clean bill of health goes with that animal. In a year or two we 

 will be on top of it. Some man will say : "You still have it with 

 you." Have we not got smallpox in spite of the fact of vaccina- 

 tion? Some people will not be vaccinated. It is unwise to have 

 compulsory testing at the present time. The time may come ; it 

 will, however, be the biggest mistake you can make. Why? 

 Because the whole system would break down. With our 1,200,- 



