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rI1\i.THE METHOD7IItJ(From Mile* City Ind#p*nd«nl.) there In going to bo 11 constitutional Th© disease of glanders, or tuber- disturbance. I was not familiar withculosls In any subject la to be dreaded, an overdose of tnaMn at that time*and I for one do honestly encourage [ but hav© since received the opinion of their eradication whenever the opporIibrother veterinarians and experimenttun It v presents Itself to destroy a subject, where there Is no question that one or the other diseases exist !n a subject. Your attention Is called to a few farts and figures In a recent article published in the Yellowstone Journal, as having been read before the Montana Veterinary Medical association. entitled, My views of the Eradication of Glanders and Tuberculosis/* I would like to ask, is a glandered horse or a tuberculosis cow worth anything to anyone, and is it right, to sell a diseased animal by a forced taw to a, county or state when t ie subject ts of no value to any one? If your building bums down and you h:iv no Insurance, Is It right the state ato ild reimburse you for It or any part of It* valuation? Because our present winter has been severe on stock on the ranges. Is It reasonable to believe that the state should re place the dead ones? Your attention is called to different paragraphswhereby you bad ought to enact laws regulating the practice of veterinary medicine hi order to get the highest standard of professional efficiency to determine if your stock has an Infec tlous or contagious disease. I would like to ask how many graduates of the different colleges of veterinary medi cine of today ever seen a glandered horse only as he Is described on paper. If the public wishes to know the truth there Is not 75 per cent of them ever aee a glandered horse until he gets into the active field of practice With the present valuation of livestock do you want a law that forbids you giving your beast a dose of medicine, and furalah easy office* for those who can©d for myself With ihe following re suits: 1 obtained two hones, designating them one and two, I gave number one two cubic centimeters of maleln, I gave number two one cubic cent em© ter of male hi 1 got no reaction from case number two, Cane number one, which received the double do»-\ gave a relative reactionsuch as the McKay horse* displayed I then alternated the test, allowing a lapse of thirty days between experiments, and gave the second lest. 1 gave number one two cubic centimeter* of matefn, I gave number two one cubic centimeter of maleln. Number one show the effects of the overdose by a relative reaction. Number two showed no reaction at all. Now I will ask the public to judge for your selves. Do you want to legislate laws protecting a profession like thl« and placing your IIrestock at the mercy of a combination of this kind. Eastern Montana stockmen are encouraged to buy and produce a better grade of stock by entering the markets in the eastern states to procure full blooded stock as their foundation*, but as condition* are, can you afford to do it? As an example, you go cast and buy a high priced stallion or mare, or a bull or a cow, you lead it on the train for transportation, you get it to the state lint and there are compelled to unload until the maleln or tuberculean tests are given. Your stock has beeu exposed to the climatieal changes and your animal gives a small reaction. You are held up for an indefinite time and upon release you enter the state, and when you get to the farm and In the course of time you find your ani-not make a living a* a practitioner and j mal8 are not in a normal condition fora* a last resort has got to look for a position as a federal Inspector or a deputy state veterinarian, because he baa a book knowledge of the profession with no practical experience.I want to call the public’* attention to how the John Daut sheep case was handled, also how Mr, Dan C. McKay haa been dealt with. Another case, that of Mr. Robinson of Forsyth, and furthermore, haa any sheepman in eastern Montana called in a state officer to treat his diseased sheep this winter? 1 want to enter Into the inner conscience of you horsemen and ask why do you employ outside aer vices and pay them feet when you could have the service** of the stateand federal department free of cost? 1 can tell you why, you do not haw the confidence in the different offices to render you practical results, 1 will now mention a few facta about the John Daut sheep situation. At that time the present writer was In the employ of the state and knows whereof be speaks. There were four federal veterinarians and three states revb w* ed the conditions at the Daut ranch. 1 wish to ask the public the* results. Mr. John Daut failed iu business,which was due to the fact that he w isgiven so many different tr«-ai menis that by the time Ik* had adopted an©apei.iie lino of te rat mom the dU©a*ehad done Its da in aging work, That same winter one uf our large sheep owners hail the disease known as the lip and leg infection in his flock s. Hea year or two thereafter. Upon the other band your stock is tested before shipment, and In transportation your animals contract shipper's fever, and the drain of the fever In sympathy with the biological test’s drain upon rbe constitution of your stock you wonder why they are practically worthless for a year or two thereafter. The time Is at band when you stockmen will have to rise up in arms and provide more practical measures against some of the veterinary combinations, or suffer losses at the hands ol u combine which Is trying to create more laws for their protection by leading you to believe that they are such public benefacto-a.Your attention is again called toarticle In the Yellowstone Journal of March 20, 1012, entitled. KilledAmerican Horses, and then start an Investigation of conditions in this state and provide some practical legislation that will do away with so many professional veterinary ethics. Your attention Is again called to the fart that where » veterinarian make* u diagnosis ol an infectious or contag-1 lous disease, and hat- given the owner!a positive answer as to the existence j of the disease, any consulting veterinarian through professional ethics is supposed to substantiate his diagnosisYou can readily see that the McKay horses were killed not because they weu* galnderod, hut by a preponderance ol professional evidence and a double dose at maleiti. If Mr McKayappealed to the different stale officers,had the money to spend that th* *tat«for help, and derived no b©m fits, whereupon he appealed to Washington to The ilureau til Aid mil Industry for treatment of his diseased sheep, and received a reply to apply five per cent solution of carbolic acid thre# Units dally. I ll© owner had 20,000 »b©vp Infected and, Upon reading hi* reply, threw up both hands In dlspair. lust iliink of the force of men and the amount of labor it wan'd require III the heart of a severe wWte” to apply this ‘mpravtleabI© treatment.I now want to explain iu Hie public the Dan C\ McKay glanders raw- that was In litfguiiou a year ago Mr. Me Kay s hursc-s were ordered to t* given the maleln test for guinders by thecourt. I he evidence will show that si the trial there was nui out? that tesli-tied that ho evt-r guv* a horse one cubic OODUmeter of tush-iii. ©» the horses bad to be killed in order iu substantiate the diigiiosit of the deputy state veterinarians and this was bow It was done A deputy state vet* erluarisu was Instructed by the court to give the maleln test in the write* *presence The temperature was takennud the ii p i (ions made at Intteiu that ts customary, and two cubic osmfiiiteteJ* of uiaMu injected. which was a doubt© dom Of course there was a reaction If you give an over dose of moat auy biological productol Montana or the Human or AnimalIndustry, be could have n«rured proteas Iona 1 v vide me that would haveshowed that his home* were riot dl heased. If you are a practicing voter Itjarian and do not btdong to the different tisaoclaiIons and give an opinion on a case* it Is considered worthless aud you ire branded as an om-peric and an outlaw. I want to now call your attention to our Miles City sales yards, one of our principal in dustries of eastern Montana W© nowhave what I predicted four years ago, the bars of most of our eastern states I raised against our range horses and■the mate in teat given to eastern ship | merit. At a glance you will readily see that we export one hundred horses to 1-ach tin© tin ported, and it makes no difference, * diseased horse will slip by you now and again, and uo one is j infallible in his inspection.I wish to ask in© public bow this inaleui teats has ©fleeted our chief In 1 dustry, Ask the sales yards man ageiiM-nt. Vet you nave more just such taws asked for and it will couie to j pass w hen you will nave to be inapt. i t«4 wh©n you go to eat ftp od#r to furwish soUitr on© employ Mo lit. If the*©'diseases ate U bv hand lad and wradltutted It must t* dun© In a pr*.ik*iway, and public will be obligated in go outside of lbe profvsaiouai ranksto do th© required work. Now just rake the present situation of the diseased sheep in tois country, has anyowner culled in a it at© official t© relieve hi* *itnation? I have personal ly treated about 50.000 heart with ii degree of success this year 1 wouldihk why? Answer this, Mr. Block man, I do not uphold anyone keepitu diseased flock of any kind, but what are you going to do where you nr©obliged to depend on your own endeavors and treatment to rcltev© your situation or appeal for at ate p rules* aional help and lie advertised from one end of the country to the other as having diseased stock,1 think I have said enough, as I could write much more. What this country want a is to obtain more con J1 donee In the veterinary profession, and fo know that they will bo sqlaroly dealt with, and I am sure that then wn, in* no stock owner who would not kill a diseased animal. If any in-dividual would read the bill that w-ag Introduced Into the bouse of re presen ratlves at Washington known as the Own©* bill, they will find a moat pi a* Ideal way to economise iu your state appropriation and accomplish gome marvelous results, as you will not be obliged to keep an army of officers to eat up these appropriations by extravagant expenditures, This Owens tiiit haa received opposition from all th© veterinary associations and col leges, but let me say that is a practical one, and you can readily ae© why the profession condemns it These diseases require every energy put forth to stamp them out and cm as u res used and I would suggest auy one interested In the good ol the work to obtain a copy of th© Owens bill, and you will find a way to take active measures to accomplish resulaa. The Owens bill provides that the Bureau of Animal Industry become a part of the Bureau of Health, and thus do away with a few line salaried positions, and allow* of a more rational ad ministration of quarantine affair*. Kindly review th© state affairs and see what they have don© and especial ly where the amount of approprta lions are taken into consideration, look over carefully th© conditions of our sheep, the requirements to ship stock east and our destroying of dairy herds, and figure the results to eastern Montana and see If you want to legislate more laws regulating th© practice qf veterinary osicNt* ft cue Is qualified to be a veterinary practioner, he does not need the enactment of any laws to protect him.His work alone Is his success, and he need not be afraid of any non-graduate competition. I dare say I have killed more glandered homes In ©astern Mon tan In the year 1010 than any state officer, and I have yet to see a case diagnosed disputed by any owner, all stockmen showing a wBHugtieaa to lead out a diseased subject and d© atroy him on th© spot.Mr, Robinsons case m Forsyth, In which he has had a pair of mules in quarantine for over a year for glan tiers. Whoever saw a mule go over thirty days with the glanders? And all Ihlg loss to Mr, Robinson. You will read more of the facta in this case when I again see him.The public will wake up some day and realise th**y hav© destroyed many a valuable hot to* ihar mat© in is reapon .lilib* for alon*', arid not the glanders J also w ish to state that the successful veterinarian of today is not the one who is a graduale of the first da**college*, but (he one who ©HU applythe art in the mum skillful and practicable manner, to accomplish results, i will wager a sum that there worenor four veterinarians who gave teatlmony In the McKay lt;a*e (hat could capon I a© a rooster, or spay a female dug successfully—W B. HWANK,Bring YourJOBTo theENTERPRISETh# Enterprise printers ai« old timer* in U# business and know how to *uangv Job*oik to satisfy Ihe cutlam.ink# th# Enter prig# hum#
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