This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: A dozen National guardsmen from Fremont county. Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1554 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. Nov. 12, 1931. "THIS COW WAR OF OURS."--While Iowa will "get the boys out of the barnyards by Christmas" there are signs that the Iowa cow-testing war may be renewed next spring and prolonged indefinitely. From Cedar county, where it all started, the rebellion has spread to other counties until now testing under martial law has gone into its sixth week. With the appearance of guardsmen hostilities cease, but they brake out immediately in new territory. If the completion of the work in the yet untested counties were all that promised trouble, the end of the war might be in sight. Only a small portion of the state remains untested. But the campaign for tuberculosis eradication doesn't end with one test. It has to be repeated over and over. Heartened by the trouble which farmers in the southeastern counties have been making with their opposition, objectors have been organizing elsewhere to resist application of the second test. They threaten to submit only to military rule. This greatly increases the gravity of the situation. While the militia has been able to handle the situation without bloodshed, its continual employment for years or even months would create a serious problem. The cost of pacification would be staggering. For the brief time the war has been in progress the expense to the state is said to have reached more than $100,000.