Show Tuberculosis Being Being- g El Eradicated ed Rapidly y yr r Wide Country de Plan Known no as Area Work Prepared by the tb UnIted Stat state a Department or of Agriculture A Eradicating bovine tuberculosis not only from Individual herds but also from entire C counties Is fuTor gainIng Dining favor among live Uve stock own oW owners rs according to a recent L of ot the bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau renu of animal Industry United States Department of ot Agriculture Tho The countr countrywide country plan Is Unknown known known as area work on January 1 Of ot this year approximately counties In the United States were engaged In some Bomo form of area work Of or these 55 65 counties counties counties coun- coun ties had hod reduced the time extent of ur in Infection fee tion flea to less than half hair of 1 l per cent cen and are ore officially designated as ns modi- modi moC 1 fled fied accredited areas One hundred others other s had completed one or more e tests of or all the cattle within their borders and were approaching the free disease-free goal These counties constitute about 10 per cent of or the total number of counties In the country and contain nearly eleven million cattle cottle The activity ac activity ac- ac Is going on in all portions of ot the country Following the suppression suppression sion slon of mouth foot-and-mouth disease In CalIfornia California Cal Cal- that state along with the others Is now showing renewed activity activity ac ac- ac- ac in banishing tuberculosis The cattle In Freeborn county MInnesota MInnesota Minnesota Min MIn- were tested under sever se because of zero below-zero w weather ther two orty veterinarians started work Dec December 8 B using teams Instead of ot automobiles They tested more than cattle on farms finding about reactors Federal officials have classed this activity as a good piece of work |