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Show FARM BUREAU HEADS TUBERCULOSIS FIGHT One of the Big Projects in Live Stock and Dairy Sections. Eradication of bovine tuberculosis Is one of the major projects of all state farm bureau federations in live stock and dairy producing areas. In Minnesota under the direction of Dr. C. E. Cotton, head of the state live stock sanitary board, and W. J. Fritz, Inspector in charge of federal tuberculosis eradication work, cattle are being inspected county by county. In fifteen days over 46,000 cattle in Meeker county were tested. The Meeker County farm bureau is actively assisting the county agent in that county in putting over the eradication eradi-cation campaign. Doctor Cotton praised highly the cooperation co-operation given the test campaign by county farm bureau officials, saying, "The way in which the farm bureau people helped with the work made It possible for us to conduct a campaign that was 100 per cent efficient in every respect. Without the farm bureau a great deal more time would have been required and I am certain that the campaign would have progressed far less smoothly." In New York a special committee has been appointed to head the eradication eradi-cation work in that state. Enos Lee, president of the state farm bureau federation, appointed the committee and will actively head up the work'. In Illinois the Illinois Agricultural association together with the county farm bureaus are engaged In an active campaign to secure the proper enforcement en-forcement of rules and orders regulating regulat-ing tuberculosis eradication. Michigan county farm bureaus, too, are giving important assistance to the federal and state governments in cattle tuberculosis work which Is going go-ing forward rapidly Ln Michigan. The county farm bureaus have been prime movers in getting the work started. Once it is under way they have loaned all their resources toward getting It done as economically as possible. This means that the county farm bureaus have assisted greatly in economically organizing the county plan of work, keeping the campaign records, furnishing furnish-ing speakers and other workers, also finnnclal assistance. Michigan has four counties which are tuberculosis free and have been designated by the United States government gov-ernment as modified accredited areas. In Hillsdale county live stock shippers :ire already -getting a ten-cent-a-hun-dred premium on hogs sent to market This formerly was deducted by the packers as insurance against tuberculosis tubercu-losis losses. In a few years tills item alone will pay for the campaign. Another An-other benefit to come will be 25 cents more per hundred from the packers .in cattle shipments. This Is still be-ng be-ng deducted as Insurance against tuberculosis losses, but will be taken off very soon. Michigan has one county whose cattle have been twice tested for tu-Serculosis. tu-Serculosis. It soon will be a modified accredited area. Six counties have ieen tested once and are getting ready for the second test. Four counties lave their first test under way; 20 -ounties are on the waiting list. In some of the above counties the test Is showing as low as 14 per cent reactor. re-actor. To be classed as modified ac credited a county must have less than one-half of one per cent reactors. As soon as the percentage of reactors drops below 1 per cent, only centers of infection are tested ln the county. In Michigan the work Is proceeding rapidly. During August 4,553 herds, containing 83,128 animals, were tested. The work Is carried on through a cooperative co-operative arrangement of the state, federal and county authorities. The county must appropriate funds to pay the expenses of the veterinarians and others working in the county. Indemnities Indem-nities for diseased cattle are borne by the state and federal governments. County farm bureaus In Maryland directly aided by the state federation are rapidly pushing the formation of cow testing associations. A warm rivalry has been built up between various va-rious county units to see which will be able to show the cleanest sheet when the next report is made. The farm bureau-in Maryland has determined that bovine tuberculosis will be completely eradicated In that state. Particular Interest ln tuberculosis tubercu-losis eradication is being shown by the farm bureaus in Hartford, Baltimore, Montgomery, Frederick and Carroll counties. |
