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Show FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS IN VARIOUS STATES Campaign Against Great Stock Plague Gaining Impetus. Many Communities See Possibility of Ending for All Time Drain Upon Their Live Stock Resources Louisiana in Line. (Prepared by the United Statca Department of Agriculture.) As the possibility of eradicating tuberculosis tu-berculosis In cattle becomes apparent to a greater nuuibor of people, the campaign cam-paign against the great live stock plague gains impetus. States and counties that had given little thought to this work from the economic standpoint stand-point are now taking it up In a businesslike busi-nesslike . manner, says the United States Department of Agriculture, because be-cause they can see the possibility of ending for all time this drain upon their live sfocic resources. The latest state to fall Into line for practical tuberculosis eradication work Is Louisiana. On June 2il the legislature legisla-ture passed a bill authorizing the state live stock sanitary hoard to co-operate with the United States Department of Agriculture, and providing an indemnity indem-nity fund of Slo.000 a year for two years. A small amount of eradication work had been done there before, but because no money was provided for paying indemnities for slaughtered animals an-imals almost no progress was made. Since the state has only a light Infes- v i f fery-! ',. l The Kind of a Cow That Will Pay Any Farmer. tatlon of tuberculosis, estimated by the bureau of animal Industry at 1 per cent, It should require only a few years of such appropriations to freo the cattle entirely. Massachusetts, a state that has been spending money to light tuberculosis of cattle since 1SD-1, recently passed n law enabling the state bureau of animal an-imal Industry to co-operale with the United States Department of Agriculture. Agri-culture. About $G0,(KK) a year will be provided to pay Indemnities on the co-operative basis with the federal government. gov-ernment. bo pastured only lightly at first and hogs should not be turned In curly In the morning when a heavy dew Is still on the rape. White or thln-sklnncd hogs blister In such Instances. Sow rape nlone 4 to C poinds lo the acre. Use the Dwarf F.ssex varb-tv only, ns It has been found to be best for our conditions. |