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Show HELP WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS Farrirs In Vicinity of Grove City, Pa., Sign Requests to Have Herds Tested. The community at Grove City, Pa., where the dairy division of the United States Department of Agriculture is carrying on community extension work, is active In tuberculosis eradication. eradica-tion. The owners of several hundred herds signed requests to have their herds tested and accredited ; in fact It appears that practically all the patrons of the Grove City creamery soon will have their animals tested. This wwk originated with the bull associations operating In that vicinity ; but It now extends throughout the county, and even to the two adjoining counties. An interesting, feature of the situation situa-tion Is the springing up of the Grove City Accrcdited-Dalry-Cattle Show and Sales association, composed of owners of accredited herds who wish to take advantage of the fact that all their herds are clean, to co-operate In improvement, and seJI all their stock on that basis. One member who has a clean herd says that after his herd was tested he sold some cows for $300 each, which, previously, he would have parted with for half that amount. He had actually offered them for $150 prior to the test. |