This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1387.3 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. September 11, 1924. "IOWA LEADS IN T.B. WORK. Almost As Many Cattle Being Tested In One Month As In U.S. Six Years Ago".--Iowa is far and away in the lead among all other states in the number of cattle being tested for tuberculosis, with Wisconsins econd in the list. The remarkable increase in the number of cattle tested since 1918 is the subject of a chart prepared by the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture. During the year 1918 federal and state veterinarians in the United States made official test of 131,143 cattle under the uniform plan for tuberculosis eradication. Iowa, during the first six months of 1924 tested 384,453 cattle, or almost three times as many as the entire United States did in 1918. Last Year the entire United States tested a total of 3,460,849 cattle or nearly 30 times as many as were tested in 1918. Iowa in the month of June, 1924, tested 93,264 cattle. Among the 384, 453 head tested during the first six months of 1924 there were represented 27, 451 herds, thus showing the widespread distribution of the testing work. Winnebago county is the first Iowa county to be put on the accredited list because of the number of cows tested. As a result hog raisers are receiving a bonus of 10 cents per hundred pounds for their hogs because of the eradication of tuberculosis among cattle.