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Show BRUCELLOSIS VACI NATIONS NOW REQUIRED The Utah State Law requiring re-quiring vaccination of all calves for Brucellosis Is now In effect. Dairy calves should be vaccinated before they reach 6 months of age and beef calves before they reach 8 months of age, according to Grant Esplin, Area Livestock Live-stock Specialist. Cattlemen will be especially espe-cially interested in vaccinating vaccinat-ing all replacement heifers and breeding stock. It Is also important to have all heifers that are to be sold vaccinated. vaccinat-ed. Sale of heifers not vaccinated vac-cinated can be sold only to certified feed lots where the heifers will be fed out for slaughter. This limits the market for thenonvacclnat-ed thenonvacclnat-ed heifers. Since we do not have a veterinarian vet-erinarian in Beaver County, arrangements have been made to have veterinarians come in to do the vaccinating. vaccinat-ing. Those who would like calves vaccinated may call Grant Esplin at the Beaver County extension office, 438-2252, 438-2252, or Ralph Pearson, President of the Beaver County Cattlemens Association. Associ-ation. The State is paying for the vaccine and in addition will pay 40? per head for 1-50 head and 30 per head for over 50 head. They will also pay part of the farm call fee for dairy calves, but not for beef calves. That schedule sche-dule is 1-15 miles $5.00, 16-30 miles $7.50, over 31 miles $10.00. |