Show Livestock Situation N i m A OlL JA M Los Loa Angeles June 2 2 Recent Recent figures fig fig- ures indicate that splendid progress is being made through various federal state and antl county agencies in the work which is ill being done toward eradication eradication tion of tuberculosis among cattle At the do close e of the fiscal year end ending nd ing June Juno 80 30 1026 1020 nearly half of the breeding cattle of the United States State II Lad been tested for tuberculosis and nearly one olle million reactors had been removed from the herds herda throughout hout the th-a country The effect of the work being done Ion Along this line from an economic standpoint can well be appreciated In viewing ing the figures of 1916 and 1020 1926 In Jn 1916 26 20 per cent ent of ot all cattle received re- re at the large packing centers were Mere retained on account of showing traces raeR of tuberculosis while in 1926 1920 only 13 per ent rent were well no so retained From rom this it t can be seen sen that reten reten- on account of tuberculosis tuberculosis' have have- been reduced 50 51 per cent ent in the past ten years Of 01 course from a R standpoint of public ILlic welfare and sanitation the work that is being carried on along these lines line Is highly desirable from the standpoint of raising the standards surrounding the production and distribution dis dis- of meat foods as well as of dair dairy products From an economical al standpoint Itis it itis is Hs difficult to estimate what tuber has c cost st the Industry in years ears gone by but lt it safe earl to say that the figures be staggering not only from Irom losses entailed in In cattle but through tran transmission of the of-the the disease e to ho hogs I The importance of this transmission transmission trans trans- mission has teen been recognized and Inmany in inmany inmany I many territories bonuses are being offered offered of of- by packing plants for Jor hogs produced produced pro pro- In in sections that arc are accredited as all having had all cattle tested and in infected infected In in- animals dl disposed posed of 01 From the standpoint of dollars and cents the importance of ot the work that is being done can be realized when it is IR considered that around ten million beef beet cattle cattle are slaughtered under Federal inspection each year Formerly 2 per cent of or these animals were condemned representing enting two hundred thousand h head ad and figuring g the avera average value of or these animals even en at which U lit a low estimate estimate esti esti- mate would represent the loss Reducing these condemnations condemnations by half hall as has been done n a clear annual saving to the industry in con alone is made not considering the economic loss oss of maintaining infected herds with the accompanying hazards of consumers of ot meat food and dairy products as well as the endangering of or other classes of or livestock through Infection |