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Show TESTS URGED FOR STOCK ON UTAH RANGES (Tribune) Er. W. H. Hendricks, state veterinarian, vet-erinarian, asserts in his biennial report to the state board of agriculture ag-riculture that, if Utah were to test its range cattle for tuberculosis, the entire state could be made an accredited area. As such it would be classified on United States department de-partment of agriculture maps as free from bovine tuberculosis, and certain restrictions on shipping cattle from this area would be lightened or removed. An active campaign of tuberculosis tuber-culosis eradication has been carried on cooperatively with the federal government since 1917. In order to accredit a county, all of the cattle within the county must have been tested and the reactors re-actors removed. The percentage of infection must not exceed one-half of one per cent. In Utah there is but one county (Cache) ' in this j class. I cent. ; When the retcttr cattle are that the generalized cases ct tu-: tu-: berculcsis and cases where a great ' many internal lesions are found, are gradually being eliminated. We are finding more externa! lesirn cases, which means that we are eliminating infected animals before be-fore the disease has a change to develop its destructive st.ige. and thereby cause mere serious trouble. |