Montana Livestock Sanitary Board Records, 1907-1967

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Montana Livestock Sanitary Board Records
Title
Montana Livestock Sanitary Board Records
Dates
1907-1967 (inclusive)
Quantity
9 linear feet of shelf space
Collection Number
RS 61
Summary
These Montana Livestock Sanitary Board records (1907-1967) consist of correspondence, financial records, legal documents, reports, subject files, and miscellany for the Board, plus subgroups on foot-and-mouth disease, and tuberculosis. (Artifacts, maps, printed material, and photographs have been transferred to the Museum, Library, and Photograph Archives respectively.)
Repository
Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov
Access Restrictions

Collection open for research.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

The Montana Live Stock Sanitary Board was established in 19O7 and consisted of three members: the president of the Board of Stock Commissioners, the president of the Board of Sheep Commissioners, and the president of the State Board of Health. The State Veterinarian served as secretary and executive officer of the Board. The Board was empowered to govern quarantines, establish and maintain livestock sanitary regulations, direct and regulate the slaughter of all diseased animals, provide for meat inspection, and provide for the payment of indemnity when required.

In 1921 the legislature increased the size of the Board to include all six members of the Livestock Commission, with the chairman of the Commission serving as chairman of the Board. The Board was also given additional powers, including the power to regulate the importation of livestock, the eradication and control of livestock diseases, and the movement and quarantine of animals infected with contagious diseases within the state. Additional powers were gradually granted by succeeding legislatures. In 1931 the Board got the power to inspect and grade meat; in 1949 the Board assumed the regulation of Montana's rendering plants; and in 1953 the Board began the supervision of garbage feeders and artificial inseminators.

The Montana Veterinary Research Laboratory, at Montana State College in Bozeman, was organized in 1929, as a cooperative effort of the Montana Livestock Sanitary Board, the Montana Experiment Station, the Montana Stockgrowers Association, and the Montana Woolgrowers Association. The laboratory was established to investigate diseases of range cattle and sheep.

Dr. William J. Butler was appointed state veterinary surgeon on March 4, 1913. He resigned in 1948 and was followed by Dr. Howard F. Wilkins (1948-1954) and Dr. Hadleigh Marsh (1954-1956). In 1956 Dr. J.W. Safford became state veterinarian and served until 1973.

The Montana Live Stock Sanitary Board was abolished in 1971, and its functions were transferred to the newly created Board of Livestock, which vested these responsibilities in the Department of Livestock, Animal Health Division, headed by the State Veterinarian.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Montana Livestock Sanitary Board Records consist of general records from the Board, as well as records specific to two distinct programs overseen by the Board. The collection has been organized into four subgroups; three representing the records of the Board and its programs, and the fourth a listing of any items transferred to another program within the Montana Historical Society.

The Montana Live Stock Sanitary Board subgroup contains interoffice correspondence (1911-1922, 1957-1959) between the state veterinarian and other administrative officials and the field veterinarians around the state; general correspondence (1911-1922, 1956-1959) arranged into Montana correspondence, out-of-state correspondence, and topical correspondence; and outgoing circular letters (1913-1915, 1925-1929, 1957). This subgroup also includes financial records (1917-1968); legal documents (1922-1937); legislative materials (1957-1959); minutes of the Board (1956-1959); press releases (1959); annual reports (1919-1928); weekly field reports (1915-1918) of assistant state veterinarians; speeches and writings (1956-1959) of Dr. J.W. Safford and other Board employees; a subject file (1921-1961) on Bang's Disease, the State Laboratory Building Commission, and other topics; miscellany; and clippings.

The Foot-and-Mouth Disease subgroup contains general correspondence (1914-1915) documenting the successful efforts of the Board to combat the 1914 epidemic of this disease in Montana. The largest number of letters are with ranchers and homesteaders hoping to bring cattle and horses into the state and inquiring about quarantine regulations.

The Tuberculosis subgroup documents the Board's Tuberculosis Control Program during the 193Os. Earlier efforts to control this disease are partially documented in the general correspondence of the Montana Live Stock Sanitary Board subgroup. This subgroup contains general correspondence, legal documents, reports, and miscellany.

The Separations subgroup contains a list of the artifacts, maps, printed material, and photographs which have been transferred to the Museum, Library Map Collection, Library, and Photograph Archives respectively.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.

Preferred Citation

Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The collection is arranged by subgroup and then by series.

Location of Collection

18:7-6

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information is available upon request.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection

Montana Livestock Sanitary Board Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Interoffice Correspondence
Box/Folder
1 / 1
Dr. Glenn R. Bach (Medicine Lake)
1914-1915
1 / 2
Dr. John C. Boyd (Kalispell)
1912-1915
1 / 3
Dr. Z.C. Boyd (Butte, Chinook)
1911-1914
1 / 4
Dr. A.J. Butterfield (Great Falls)
1911
1 / 5-7
Dr. A.H. Cheney (Miles City, Polson)
1910-1915
1 / 8-10
Dr. A.J. Du Frene (Glendive, Ekalaka)
1911-1916
1 / 11-14
Dr. F.S. Gray (Billings, Lewistown, Red Lodge, Terry, Miles City)
1911-1916
1 / 15
Dr. S.F. Griesemer (Huntley, Powderville)
1913-1915
1 / 16
Dr. C.A. Hatterscheid (Billings, Culbertson)
1913-1915
1 / 17
Dr. O.J. Johnson (Miles City)
1912-1915
1 / 18-19
Dr. A.D. Knowles (Livingston) (also includes his correspondence as Secretary-Treasurer of the Montana Veterinary Medical Association, a report on glanders in Yellowstone National Park, 1911, and article on treatment of lupine weed poison in horses, 1916)
1911-1916
1 / 20
Dr. M.H. Kuhl (Missoula)
1913-1915
1 / 21
Dr. Malcolm McFarlane (Billings, Great Falls)
1914-1915
1 / 22
Dr. Jonathan J. Mitchell (Butte, Anaconda, Missoula, Great Falls)
1914-1916
1 / 23
Dr. A.C. Morrow (Dillon) (includes report on hog cholera in Dillon, 1914)
1911-1915
1 / 24
Dr. E.D. Nash (Helena)
1914-1915
1 / 25
Dr. W.C. Orr (Dillon)
1911-1915
1 / 26
Dr. J.W. Richardson (Malta)
1914-1916
1 / 27-28
Dr. C.H. Stevens (Stevensville, Missoula)
1911-1915
1 / 29
Dr. Walter Taylor (Bozeman)
1912
1 / 30
Dr. Howard Welch (Bozeman) (also includes correspondence as Montana Agricultural College veterinarian)
1911-1915
1 / 31
Dr. A.F. Baldwin (Miles City)
1921-1922
1 / 32
Dr. J.C. Boyd (Kalispell)
1921-1922
1 / 33
Dr. B.O. Fisher (Great Falls)
1921-1922
1 / 34
Dr. F.N. Frisch (Glasgow)
1920-1922
1 / 35
Dr. C.A. Hatterscheid (Glendive)
1921-1922
1 / 36
Dr. Warren E. Heath (Columbus)
1922
1 / 37
Dr. F.T. Hull (Conrad)
1922
1 / 38
Dr. Harry L. Jones (Drummond)
1921-1922
1 / 39
Dr. J.W. Kilpatrick (Hamilton)
1921-1922
1 / 40
Dr. A.D. Knowles (Missoula)
1921-1922
1 / 41
Dr. A.T. Knowles (Billings)
1921-1922
1 / 42
Dr. V.W. Knowles (Ronan)
1921-1922
1 / 43
Dr. C.F. Leslie (Kalispell)
1921-1922
2 / 1
Dr. Harold F. Little (Miles City) (includes letter re tuberculosis testing procedures for dairy and breeding cattle, 1923)
1921-1923
2 / 2
Dr. James F. Mitchell (Great Falls)
1921-1922
2 / 3
Dr. A.C. Morrow (Dillon)
1921-1922
2 / 4
Dr. E.D. Nash (Whitehall)
1921-1922
2 / 5
Dr. F.M. Nelson (Livingston)
1921-1922
2 / 6
Dr. W.C. Orr (Dillon)
1921-1922
2 / 7
Dr. F.B. Remer (Stanford)
1921-1922
2 / 8
Dr. J.W. Richardson (Malta)
1917, 1921-1922
2 / 9
Dr. L.P. Sharp (Moore, Harlowton)
1922
2 / 10
Dr. N.B. Smith (Billings)
1921-1922
2 / 11
Dr. C.H. Stevens (Stevensville)
1921-1922
2 / 12
Dr. R.C. Timmons (Havre)
1922
2 / 13
Dr. G.L. Utley (Twin Bridges)
1921-1923
2 / 14
Dr. I.W. Vinsel (Baker)
1921-1923
2 / 15
Dr. C.H. Wight (White Sulphur Springs)
1922
2 / 16
Montana Livestock Sanitary Board members
1918-1922
2 / 17
Drs. D.C. Baker (Sidney), J.J. Brown (Deer Lodge), Jack Catun (Livingston), G.B. Conger (Bozeman), Gordon H. Cullison (Great Falls), S.H. Flora (Miles City), Harry E. Furgeson (Anaconda), S.D. Gates (Lewistown), K. Gerner (Stevensville)
1957-1959, 1967
2 / 18
Dr. G.C. Halver (Glendive)
1957-1959
2 / 19
Drs. Howard K. Holloway (Harlowton), James Hurry (Glendive), H.W. Jacobson (Havre), Eugene Kormendy (Missoula), Alfons Lazarewicz (Missoula)
1957-1959
2 / 20
Dr. Richard E. LaFrance (Bridger)
1959
2 / 21
T.F. Lofthouse (Missoula assistant sanitarian)
1957-1959
2 / 22
Drs. S.A. Lovelace (Bozeman), A.E. McChesney (Bozeman), John D. Melcher (Forsyth), J.H. Newhall (Belgrade), H.L. Nordell (Great Falls), E.M. Pruyn (Missoula), R.D. Read (Ronan)
1957-1961
2 / 23
Drs. W. Edwin Stahl (Missoula), E.W. Spratlin (Glasgow), I.W. Vinsel (Butte), Donald B. Wheeler (Butte)
1957-1959
2 / 24
Dr. J.D.C. Wipf, state sanitarian (Bozeman)
1957-1959
2 / 25
Dr. G.M. Wright (includes list of permittees from Powder River and Rosebud counties whose herds ranged in Custer National Forest)
1957-1959
2 / 26-27
Montana Livestock Sanitation Board members
1957-1959
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
2 / 28-30
Montana correspondents: A-E
1911-1916
2 / 31
Montana correspondents: Fort Keogh Remount Station
1911-1914
2 / 32
Montana correspondents: F
1915-1916
2 / 33
Montana correspondents: H.C. Gardiner (Anaconda Copper Mining Company and Deer Lodge Valley Farms)
1914-1915
2 / 34
Montana correspondents: W.B. Gilleland (Carter County deputy sheriff)
1921-1922
2 / 35
Montana correspondents: G
1911-1916
2 / 36
Montana correspondents: Dr. L.G. Helterine, Montana Livestock Commission stock inspector (Plains)
1921-1922
2 / 37-38
Montana correspondents: H (includes Highland Serum Company, Butte, re hog cholera serum, 1913)
1913-1917
2 / 39
Montana correspondents: A.B. Jones case (re impersonation of veterinarian)
1914-1915
2 / 40
Montana correspondents: Elmer Jones (Warm Springs) (re quarantine violation)
1915
2 / 41
Montana correspondents: I-J (includes J.W. Jones, Wibaux County sheriff)
1914-1916
2 / 42
Montana correspondents: Dr. M.E. Knowles, special inspector in charge of wolf and coyote inoculation (Helena)
1913-1914
2 / 43
Montana correspondents: K-L (includes report to J.M. Kennedy, commissioner, Bureau of Agriculture and Industry re health of livestock in Montana, 1914; also letters with Dr. W.A. Lyons re matters on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, 1915)
1914-1916
2 / 44
Montana correspondents: Montana state agencies
1911-1916
2 / 45
Montana correspondents: M
1913-1916
2 / 46
Montana correspondents: Mc and Mac
1914-1916
2 / 47
Montana correspondents: N-O (includes Oregon Short Line Railway Company stock census for cattle, milk cows, sheep, swine, horses, mules, 1913)
1913-1916
3 / 1
Montana correspondents: P-Q
1913-1916
3 / 2
Montana correspondents: R
1912-1916
3 / 3
Montana correspondents: Dr. C.E. Steinberg (Chinook)
1921-1922
3 / 4-6
Montana correspondents: S (includes resolution of thanks to Bureau of Animal Industry and Montana Livestock Sanitary Board by Montana Stockgrowers Association)
1911-1916
3 / 7
Montana correspondents: John C. Taylor (Bynum)
1921-1923
3 / 8
Montana correspondents: T
1911-1916
3 / 9-11
Montana correspondents: U.S. Bureau of Animal Health local offices (correspondents include James Munro, J.O. Wilson, A.W. Miller, E.J. Cary, et al.)
1915-1916
3 / 12
Montana correspondents: United States Forest Service
1915-1916
3 / 13
Montana correspondents: U-V
1915-1916
3 / 14
Montana correspondents: Dr. J.R. Ward (Missoula)
1911
3 / 15
Montana correspondents: Dr. Howard Welch (Bozeman)
1921-1923
3 / 16-17
Montana correspondents: W
1911-1916
3 / 18
Montana correspondents: Y-Z
1914-1916
3 / 19
Out-of-state government agencies: Canada (includes letter to British Columbia Livestock Commissioner re spread of sarcoptic mange among Montana coyotes, 1915)
1914-1917
3 / 20
Out-of-state government agencies: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia
1911-1915
3 / 21
Out-of-state government agencies: Idaho, Illinois
1911-1915
3 / 22
Out-of-state government agencies: Indiana-Iowa
1915-1917
3 / 23
Out-of-state government agencies: Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri
1915-1916
3 / 24
Out-of-state government agencies: Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina
1913-1917
3 / 25
Out-of-state government agencies: North Dakota
1911-1916
3 / 26
Out-of-state government agencies: Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania (includes list of car loads of Montana cattle, hogs, and sheep received at Portland Union Stock Yards, Oregon, 1913)
1913-1917
3 / 27
Out-of-state government agencies: South Dakota
1911-1916
3 / 28
Out-of-state government agencies: Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin
1915-1917
3 / 29
Out-of-state government agencies: Wyoming
1914-1916
3 / 30
Out-of-state government agencies: U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry (includes correspondence re Fort Belknap Indian Reservation)
1911-1915
3 / 31
Out-of-state government agencies: U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry (includes Veterinary Inspector Dr. H.H. Cohenour)
1915-1916
3 / 32-39
Out-of-state individuals: A-S
1913-1916
4 / 1
Out-of-state individuals: T-V (includes foot-and-mouth, glanders, dourine, and tuberculosis statistics, 1914-1915)
1913-1916
4 / 2
Out-of-state individuals: W-Z
1913-1917
General Correspondence [by topic]
Box/Folder
4 / 3
Agricultural Research Service
1956-1959
4 / 4
American Veterinary Medical Association
1957
4 / 5
Anthrax
1957-1958
4 / 6
Attorney General (includes information re use of tax funds to finance laboratory)
1957-1959
4 / 7
Bluetongue
1956-1957
4 / 8-10
Brucellosis (includes federal interstate regulations)
1955-1960
4 / 11
Dairies (includes reports of investigations at the Montana Soldiers' Home and unlicensed dairy operations)
1956-1958
4 / 12
Dips, sprays, and disinfectants (includes list of approved insecticides)
1958-1959
4 / 13
Examiners, Board of (re Montana Livestock Sanitary Board laboratory and office facilities)
1958
4 / 14
Extension Service (includes Livestock Committee recommendations, Rural Progress Conference, Cascade County, and list of Home Demonstration agents)
1957-1959
4 / 15
Feed Lots (includes information re quarantine of R.K. Munsell feedlot, Baker; Denzel Davis feedlot, Fairfield)
1957-1959
4 / 16
Feeds and feeding (re use of antibiotics in feeds)
1957-1959
4 / 17
Foot rot
1933, 1956-1957
4 / 18
Garbage-feeding (includes "Results of survey of methods of hog cholera vaccination on Montana garbage feeding premises" and lists of licensed garbage-feeding establishments)
1956-1959
4 / 19
Goats
1957
4 / 20
Governor J. Hugo Aronson
1958
4 / 21
"Grain poisonings negative diagnoses"
1945-1946
4 / 22
"Health, State Board of" (includes minutes of Glacier Park Sanitation meetings, list of local health officials)
1957-1959
4 / 23
Human food poisoning investigations (includes "Report of alleged food poisoning outbreak in St. Ignatius Public Schools")
1956-1957
4 / 24
"Humans: brucellosis"
1957-1959
4 / 25
Interstate shipping charges (re regulation 63 "Official charges for interstate inspections")
1951
4 / 26
Laboratories (re branch and state truck brucellosis laboratories)
1957
4 / 27
Lay inspectors (re brucellosis technicians)
1955-1957
4 / 28
Leptospirosis
1956-1958
4 / 29
Liver flukes
1957
4 / 30
Meat inspection (includes resolution of the Montana Independent Meat Packers' Association)
1958-1959
4 / 31
Methods of milk testing
1951
4 / 32
Milk Control Board (includes materials re Ralph Hales, Conrad Creamery)
1958-1959
4 / 33
Milk (correspondence on antibiotics in milk)
1956-1959
4 / 34
Miscellaneous associations (includes Eastern Montana Hereford Association, Southeastern Montana Livestock Association, Stockmen's Disease Control Association; Western Montana Dairymen's Association; includes minutes and articles of incorporation etc.)
1957-1959
4 / 35
Miscellaneous diseases (includes Fish and Game investigation of disease transmitted via food in fish hatcheries)
1957-1958
4 / 36
Miscellaneous general correspondence
1957-1959
4 / 37
Miscellaneous poisons (includes salt poisoning on John Blakenship ranch near Savage; and use of 1080 poison by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
1956-1958
4 / 38
Miscellaneous state departments (includes list of Livestock Sanitary Board staff positions)
1958
4 / 39
Montana State College (contains list of members of Dairy Advisory Committee)
1959
4 / 40
Montana Stockgrowers' Association (includes "Some places to increase efficiency in forage and livestock production" by Forrest M. Willhite; resolutions, etc.)
1957-1959
4 / 41
Montana Tuberculosis Association (includes minutes)
1958
4 / 42
Montana Veterinary Medical Association (includes report of committee on diseases, 1940; minutes; proposed revision of constitution; bylaws; "A report to the Executive Board and Practitioners Committee"; "Report of the State Veterinarian to the 49th Annual Meeting")
1941, 1957-1959
4 / 43
Montana Woolgrowers Association
1958
4 / 44
Mucosal disease
1957
4 / 45
National Assembly of Livestock Sanitary Officials
1957
4 / 46
Public Health Service
1957-1959
4 / 47
Q Fever
1959
4 / 48
Quarantines
1956-1957
4 / 49
Rabies: dogs, etc.
1958-1959
4 / 50
Redwater
1956-1959
4 / 51
Regional Research Laboratory (re proposed Western Regional Animal Disease Laboratory, Bozeman)
1957-1958
4 / 52
Regulations (includes drafts)
1957
4 / 53
Rendering plants (includes lists of licensed rendering plants and materials re use of condemned meat at fish hatchery)
1957-1958
4 / 54
Rocky Mountain Laboratory
1958-1959
4 / 55
J.W. Safford (re publication of articles and miscellaneous matters)
1956-1959
4 / 56
Saleyards (includes lists of Montana livestock saleyards and financial statement of Baker Sales Barn, Inc., Baker)
1957-1959
4 / 57
Sanitarians (includes sketch of N.L. Towne Experimental Dairy Center, Montana State College)
1957-1958
4 / 58
Scabies in sheep
1957-1958
4 / 59
Scrapie: Wyoming outbreak (includes "Report of Scrapie Meeting at St. Louis, August 17, 1956"; and memorandum of understanding with U.S. Animal Disease Eradication Division re scrapie eradication, 1957)
1956-1959
4 / 60
Sheep: enzootic abortion
1958
4 / 61
Sheep: miscellaneous diseases (includes parasitism and pediculosis)
1957-1959
4 / 62
Slaughterhouses
1959
4 / 63
State-Federal responsibilities (includes diagramatic sketch of USDA-MLSB cooperative programs, maps of MLSB districts, and USDA Animal Disease Eradication Branch Montana districts)
1956
4 / 64
Sterility testing (includes minutes of MSLB meeting with Montana Hereford Association representatives)
1959
4 / 65
Tuberculosis (cattle)
1956-1958
4 / 66
United States Livestock Sanitary Association
1957-1959
4 / 67
Vaccines and biologics
1955-1958
4 / 68
Veterinarians, miscellaneous (includes material on brucellosis campaign)
1958-1959
4 / 69
Veterinary Research Laboratory (includes minutes of Montana Veterinary Research Laboratory Advisory Committee, 1955-1956; "Major research projects under study by the Montana Veterinary Research Laboratory"
1955-1959
4 / 70
Vibrosis in cattle
1959
4 / 71
Water analyses (includes information re contamination of Bert and Ed Eklund ranches, Glendive, by oil drilling operation)
1956-1958
4 / 72
Western States Livestock Sanitary Officials (includes minutes)
1958
4 / 73
Wild animals
1956-1958
4 / 74
Winger process for dairy products
1953-1954
Outgoing Correspondence
Box/Folder
4 / 75
Circular letters to deputy state veterinarians
1913-1915, 1922-1929
4 / 76
Circular letters re milk plants
1957
Miscellaneous Correspondence
Box/Folder
4 / 77
Board of Stock Commissioners, Livestock Commission, Recorder of Marks and Brands (includes secretary's report, undated; list of printed forms used by board, 1921; contract of cattle sale J.L. Selway to Dunbar and DeVries, 1912)
1907-1923
Financial Records
Box/Folder
4 / 78
Balance sheets
1917-1919
5 / 1
Budget and payroll ledger (by numbered fund)
1932-1934, 1937-1938
Volume
Vol. 1
Budget and payroll ledger (by numbered fund)
1943-1951
Box/Folder
5 / 2
Budget and payroll ledger (by numbered fund)
1951-1954
Volume
Vol. 2
Budget and payroll ledger (by numbered fund)
1955-1957
Box/Folder
6 / 1
Budget and payroll ledger (by numbered fund)
1958-1965
Volume
Vol. 3
Budget and payroll ledger (by numbered fund)
1965-1968
Vol. 4-8
Journals
1926-1937
Vol. 9
Record of income from taxes on livestock, etc.
1956-1963
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
7 / 1
Memoranda of agreement (re blood testing of cattle for Bang's Disease)
1934
7 / 2
Memoranda of understanding (re eradication of sheep and cattle scabies)
1922-1937
Legislative Materials
Box/Folder
7 / 3
Proposed legislation
1957-1959
Minutes
Box/Folder
7 / 4
Minutes of Board meetings (also includes scattered minutes of Montana Livestock Commission)
1956-1959
7 / 5
Organizational charts and descriptions of duties
circa 1957
Press Releases
Box/Folder
7 / 6
Press releases
1959
Reports
Box/Folder
7 / 7
Annual reports of Board (includes report of State Veterinary Surgeon, 1919)
1919-1928
7 / 8
"Comparative statement showing increase in work from 1909-1916"
1916
7 / 9
Mastitis testing reports: Lake County
1950
8 / 1
Weekly field reports of Dr. John C. Boyd (Lewistown)
1915-1916
8 / 2
Weekly field reports of R.C. Duffey, scabies control officer (Fowler)
1917
8 / 3
Weekly field reports of Dr. A.J. Du Frene (Glendive)
1915-1916
8 / 4
Weekly field reports of Dr. Nelson T. Gunn (Butte, Helena)
1916
8 / 5
Weekly field reports of Dr. L. Minugh (Harlem)
1918
8 / 6
Weekly field reports of Dr. John J. Mitchell (many locations)
1915-1916
8 / 7
Weekly field reports of Dr. Fred Moran (Fairfield)
1917-1918
8 / 8
Weekly field reports of Dr. E.D. Nash (Helena); Deputy State Veterinary Surgeon Certificate
1913, 1917-1918
8 / 9
Weekly field reports of Dr. J.W. Richardson (Malta)
1915-1916
8 / 10
Weekly field reports of Dr. N.B. Smith (Billings)
1915-1916
8 / 11
Weekly field reports of Dr. C.H. Wight (Great Falls)
1916
8 / 12
Weekly field reports of Dr. Howard F. Wilkens (many locations)
1916-1918, 1940-1944
8 / 13
Summaries of reports
1915-1916, 1921-1922
Speeches and Writings
Box/Folder
8 / 14
Clayton V. Berg, "Lewis and Clark County mosquito investigation"
1958
8 / 15
John W. Black, "The Montana Livestock Commission and Livestock Sanitary Board"
undated
8 / 16
Lyman Brewster, "Brucellosis: personal, statewide, and national"; "State line quarantine"
1957, 1959
8 / 17
G.C. Halver, "Salt poisoning in range cattle"
1956
8 / 18
James J. Hurry, "Attention: poultrymen"
1957
8 / 19
J.W. Safford, miscellaneous articles and talks (re brucellosis, bovine tuberculosis, leptospirosis, livestock disease protection, work of Livestock Sanitary Board, scrapie, etc.)
1957-1959
Subject File
Box/Folder
8 / 20
Bang's Disease cases
1939-1941
8 / 21
Feeding phosphorous supplement to cattle in pasture 4, Prairie County
1953
8 / 22
Salvage receipts (re reimbursement for slaughtered animals) [file 017.24]
1921-1922
8 / 23
State ex rel. Dr. W. Edwin Stahl and the Montana Livestock Sanitary Board vs. Robert R. Peterson, Moiese, et al. (re illegal sale of dairy products)
1959-1961
8 / 24
State Laboratory Building Commission (includes minutes, legislative materials, etc.)
1956-1957
Miscellany
Box/Folder
8 / 25
Applications
1920-1922
8 / 26
"Assignment of duties of Livestock Sanitary Board office and laboratory personnel"
undated
8 / 27
"Big Hole area cattle dipped for scabies"
1943
8 / 28
Examination for Deputy State Veterinary Surgeon applicants
circa 1918
8 / 29
Forms, circular letters, etc. (re brucellosis, tuberculosis, Bang's Disease, etc.)
1940s
8 / 30
"Lambs and sheep exported from Montana and the states to which they were consigned"
1941-1942
8 / 31
List of cattle owners, by county
1961-1965
8 / 32
List of salaried employees of the Board
1919
8 / 33
List of sanitarians, lay inspectors, brucellosis technicians, poultry inspectors, board members, and artificial inseminators
1958-1959, undated
8 / 34
Memorandum of necrobaccillosis in sheep and cattle
1933
8 / 35
Order No. 46: official charges for interstate inspections
1921
8 / 36
"An Outline of animal health requirements pertaining to animals shipped to Montana"
undated
8 / 37
Phillips County (re re-certification of Phillips County by Animal Disease Eradication Division)
1962-1965
Volume
Vol. 10
Record of inspections (lists owner, address, date of inspection, inspector, and results)
1912-1913
Box/Folder
8 / 38
Rules and regulations (includes "Regulation No. 21" re livestock market regulation; "Regulation No. 52" re sheep shipped or trailed in Montana; and "Rules for conduct of meetings of the Livestock Commission and Livestock Sanitary Board"
1921, 1957, undated
8 / 39
Tuberculin reactors (lists owner, address, number tested, number reacted, and origin)
1915-1916
8 / 40
Valley County
1962-1965
Clippings
Box/Folder
8 / 41
Northwestern Stockman and Farmer (re brands; annotated)
1907-1924

Foot-and-mouth Disease Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
8 / 42-53
A-R (mostly letters from ranchers, homesteaders, and others wishing to ship cattle and inquiring about foot-and-mouth quarantine)
1914-1915
8 / 54
State Veterinarians (correspondence with out-of-state state veterinarians about quarantine)
1914-1915
8 / 55-56
S-T (mostly letters from ranchers, homesteaders, and others wishing to ship cattle and inquiring about foot-and-mouth quarantine)
1914-1915
8 / 57
United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
1914-1915
8 / 58
United States Stock Sanitary Association
1914-1915
8 / 59
U-Y (mostly letters from ranchers, homesteaders, and others wishing to ship cattle and inquiring about foot-and-mouth quarantine)
1914-1915
8 / 60
Miscellaneous (includes evaluations of cattle, salary and expenses of Bureau of Animal Industry employees working on foot-and-mouth disease)
1914-1915
Miscellany
Box/Folder
8 / 61
Certificates of appraisal of animals
1914
8 / 62
Foot-and-mouth disease brochures and regulations
1914-1915

Tuberculosis Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
9 / 1-2
Tuberculosis control: cattle
1932-1933
9 / 3
United States Bureau of Animal Industry (includes Bureau's authorizations for 1921-1922, 1928-1929)
1921-1953, undated
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
9 / 4
Agreement for the tuberculin testing of herds of cattle under the Tuberculosis Free Herd Plan
1932
Reports
Box/Folder
9 / 5
"Tuberculosis eradication summary of work performed by veterinary inspectors" (includes names of inspectors, locations, and number of cattle tested)
1932-1933
9 / 6
"Summary of tuberculosis eradication work in cooperation with the various states"
1932-1933

Transfers To Other Programs Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Transfers
Box/Folder
9 / 7
List of artifacts, maps, printed material, and photographs transferred to the Museum, Library Map Collection, Library, and Photo Archives respectively

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Agriculture and state
  • Cattle--Diseases
  • Coyotes
  • Dairying
  • Foot-and-mouth disease
  • Horses--Diseases
  • Predatory animals--Control
  • Sheep ranches--Montana
  • Swine--Breeding
  • Veterinarians--Montana
  • Veterinary hygiene
  • Veterinary medicine

Geographical Names

  • St. Ignatius (Mont.)
  • Wyoming

Finding aid prepared by MHS Staff
2004

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