Show Tests To ToBe ToBe ToBo Be Bo Made On All Utah Dairy Herds The Times TIme Independent has hasben been ben notified by Agriculture In InSpector specter Frank of Price Utah of a program for the detection detec delec tion of Bangs Bang's an s disease dis ease ase In the milk produced by bythe bythe bythe the dairy cattle In the State of Utah This material is Js of par particular Interest to all those who have dairy cows The press release follows In part The test Is officially kown as IS the milk ring test and was introduced intro dared into linto this country from Denmark Den Don m mark rk In 1919 m. It I Is being em cm- employed In twenty five states at atthe atthe atthe the present time and Is being Introduced 1 Into the State of Utah by Dr Grant E E. Blake veterinarian vet for the U U. U S. S Bureau of Animal Industry stationed in iii Wisconsin Dr Blake si sl formerly from Provo Utah and received his earl early education there The project will wll be under the joint sponsorship of the State Department De Do of Agriculture and the theU U U. U S S. S Bureau of Animal husban dr dry Dr John I I. I Curtis who is the state veterinarian will head i the program for the State and andI I Dr F F. F II H. Melvin Melvln veterinarian In charge for the U U. S. S Bureau of Animal Industry Dr Wayne i Binns head of the Veterinary Science Department of the Utah State Agricultural College who has recently returned d from a ayears ayears years year's ears study at Cornell University University sity will wll assist in tails encountered with use of the test led The ring test is a test applied ed to the whole milk of cattle to tf to detect the presence of ot anti II bodies for It Is ap applied applied plied to the pooled milk of each herd and acts only to detect herd infection It is Js necessary to toI I perform a follow up blood teston test teston on each milk ring suspicious suspicious' herd to determine the exact Bru status of ani mals The great value of the test les tes In the fact that the milk o each herd of cattle In the state may be sampled once each six months and only those hera 1 snowing a suspicious ring test I reaction need be blood tested The test is performed by plat placing ing 1 cc of pooled milk in the test tube which Is then mixed with one drop ofa of a stained antigen anti gen which is prepared d by staining stain ing a a. suspension of Brucella BrucelIa organisms When this suspension Is mixed with milk which may have antibodies that the produced in the body of an animal which is Infested with It will cause a clum clumping clumping ping of the organisms container contained In the antigen As Ute the cream rises these clumped organisms are carried to the top of the tube forming a purple ring in the case of a positive te test t. t If no antibodies anti bodies are present in the milk there is no clumping of the organisms organisms or or- I and a clear cream line inel Is formed |