This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Unknown. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1555 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. Nov. 12, 1931. "No End in Sight for Cattle Testing Farce".--Iowa national guardsmen escorting veterinarians carried the state's campaign to enforce the law requiring tuberculin testing of cattle into Lee county Tuesday. No resistance was encountered as the workers tested fifteen head on the Frank Boeding farm near West Point, ten on the Herbert Seyb farm near St. Paul, fourteen belonging to Barney Miller, and forty at Stephen Steffensmier's. After testing these four herds in the north part of the county, the veterinarians notified Sheriff Maas at Keokuk that they would not test others until Thursday or Friday. Testing in Des Moines county having been completed on Monday, an early windup of injections this year was foreseen, since reading of the results of the test is expected to be finished Thursday in Des Moines county and not more than a dozen herds remain to be tested in Lee and Jeffrerson counties, the veterinarians said. About 200 troopers left their base at 5:00 a.m. to accompany the testers. It is planned that when they go into Jefferson county they will move their encampment from Burlington to Fairfield. On the Frank Boeding farm last week three veterinarians, accompanied by Sheriff Maas and one deputy, were three times denied permission to test. Tuesday twenty-five or thirty farmers gathered at the Steffensmier property and, while no resistance was shown to the testers, they laughted at the veterinarians until troopers drove them from the place.