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Show CONTROL OF BANG'S ABORTION DISEASE The seriousnesa of Bang's abortion abor-tion disease in Utah has made it necessary nec-essary - to promote more definite plans toward its control and eradication. eradi-cation. The economic losses encountered encoun-tered are brought about not only through the doss of calves but by1 the lessened ,milk production and decrease de-crease in sale value of the animals themselves. Because no method of drug treatment has been, found to be effective and because the use of bac-terins bac-terins and vaccines has not yet solved solv-ed this problem, It is necessary to attack the disease by strict sanitation sanita-tion combined with the agglutination agglutina-tion blood test. Three such plans are suggested in a recent circular issued by the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station working cooperatively with the State Department of Agriculture in this project. The authors of the publication, publi-cation, Utah Experiment Station Circular Cir-cular 94, are D. E. Madsen, D. V. M., in eharge of the Laboratory of Animal Ani-mal Pathology at the Utah Experiment Experi-ment Station, and W. H. Hendricks, D. V. M., State Veterinarian with the State Department of Agriculture. Agricul-ture. - i A cooperative agreement is included includ-ed for the convenience of those who are particularly interested in cooperating coop-erating in a Bang's Disease Control Plan to help clean up their herds. Copies of this agreement and of the circular (No. 94) will be sent to residents re-sidents of Utah without cost by addressing ad-dressing the Division of Publications, Publica-tions, Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, Logan, Utah. |