The article was archived by FrB.TG via FACBot ( talk) 11 July 2024 [1].
This article is about a series of violent disputes over the testing of cows for bovine tuberculosis in 1931. After distrustful farmers tried and failed to repeal the testing program, they gathered in numbers to block tests from taking place. The farmers believed that the test might infect cows with tuberculosis or make pregnant cows have spontaneous abortions. They also believed that the testing was unconstitutional. SL93 ( talk) 02:23, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
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If.bovine TB was eradicated in 1929, it's definitionally impossible for some cows to have been infected with it in 1931. Compare elimination vs. eradication of infectious diseases. Also see the edits I made to the article. ( t · c) buidhe 03:47, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
I was raised on a farm one state south of Iowa, so I'll take a look at this. Hog Farm Talk 18:19, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
As a starting point, I think you're better off citing Moeller directly rather than thorough Genweb, which is of questionable reliability. Also, the Wikipedia Library brings up a 1953 Annals of Iowa article written by Frank Dileva titled "Frantic Farmers Fight Law". It covers some other agricultural concern areas in the same time frame, but it looks like it has a fair amount of content about the Cow War. This looks like something that should be used in this article. Should pp. 437-441 of Agricultural Discontent in the Middle West [2] be utilized? What about pp. 257-259 of Iowa: The Middle Land? Is One - Armed Bandits and Other Stories of Iowa's Past and Present a high-quality RS? Both the BMJ and the Iowa State University sources cite/refer to this work, but it's not clear that this is actually reliable enough for FAC. I'm struggling to find academic reviews of this outside of the Annals of Iowa; I don't expect that source to be usable for FAC from a reliability standpoint but wanted to see if you had any thoughts on that. For the Cedar County source - is a local musuem journal a high-quality reliable source for FAC? Why isn't the chapter "The Farm Strike" from Patterns and Perspectives in Iowa History consulted? There's a couple relevant pages in [ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Arresting_Contagion/nPhoBgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22iowa+cow+war%22&pg=PA293&printsec=frontcover Arresting Contagion recently published by Harvard.
While I don't know how useful or necessary the Harvard source would be, I think without citing the 1953 Annals of Iowa article and several of the other sources above, this article currently fails WP:FACR #1c and is an example of the FUTON bias. As a note, I found the stuff linked above through either quick searching through the wikipedia library and google books and through reviewing what some of the sources cited in this article cite. I sadly have to oppose right now. Hog Farm Talk 00:26, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
I will withdraw this. SL93 ( talk) 00:29, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
The article was archived by FrB.TG via FACBot ( talk) 11 July 2024 [1].
This article is about a series of violent disputes over the testing of cows for bovine tuberculosis in 1931. After distrustful farmers tried and failed to repeal the testing program, they gathered in numbers to block tests from taking place. The farmers believed that the test might infect cows with tuberculosis or make pregnant cows have spontaneous abortions. They also believed that the testing was unconstitutional. SL93 ( talk) 02:23, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
Image review
If.bovine TB was eradicated in 1929, it's definitionally impossible for some cows to have been infected with it in 1931. Compare elimination vs. eradication of infectious diseases. Also see the edits I made to the article. ( t · c) buidhe 03:47, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
I was raised on a farm one state south of Iowa, so I'll take a look at this. Hog Farm Talk 18:19, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
As a starting point, I think you're better off citing Moeller directly rather than thorough Genweb, which is of questionable reliability. Also, the Wikipedia Library brings up a 1953 Annals of Iowa article written by Frank Dileva titled "Frantic Farmers Fight Law". It covers some other agricultural concern areas in the same time frame, but it looks like it has a fair amount of content about the Cow War. This looks like something that should be used in this article. Should pp. 437-441 of Agricultural Discontent in the Middle West [2] be utilized? What about pp. 257-259 of Iowa: The Middle Land? Is One - Armed Bandits and Other Stories of Iowa's Past and Present a high-quality RS? Both the BMJ and the Iowa State University sources cite/refer to this work, but it's not clear that this is actually reliable enough for FAC. I'm struggling to find academic reviews of this outside of the Annals of Iowa; I don't expect that source to be usable for FAC from a reliability standpoint but wanted to see if you had any thoughts on that. For the Cedar County source - is a local musuem journal a high-quality reliable source for FAC? Why isn't the chapter "The Farm Strike" from Patterns and Perspectives in Iowa History consulted? There's a couple relevant pages in [ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Arresting_Contagion/nPhoBgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22iowa+cow+war%22&pg=PA293&printsec=frontcover Arresting Contagion recently published by Harvard.
While I don't know how useful or necessary the Harvard source would be, I think without citing the 1953 Annals of Iowa article and several of the other sources above, this article currently fails WP:FACR #1c and is an example of the FUTON bias. As a note, I found the stuff linked above through either quick searching through the wikipedia library and google books and through reviewing what some of the sources cited in this article cite. I sadly have to oppose right now. Hog Farm Talk 00:26, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
I will withdraw this. SL93 ( talk) 00:29, 10 July 2024 (UTC)