Show T Tattooing Swine i Useful Practice Marking Makes It Easy to Identify Animals After Being Slaughtered rr Prepared p red by tho United States a Department of or Agriculture Tattooing hogs Is a practical means of ot marking them so they can cnn be Identified fled fied after slaughter according to the time United States Department of ot Agriculture Agriculture AgrIculture ture and the practice Is useful In Innumerous Innumerous numerous ways It is particularly valuable In identifying the Ule ownership of ot hogs In mixed shipments and In tracing any disease to the farm or other place of origin Miscellaneous Circular M 57 I. I the Tattoo Method of Marking Hogs and anel Its Use recently Issued In a revised form by the United States Department of ot Agriculture describes the tattooing Instrument tells how to use it It and discusses discusses discusses dis dis- dis- dis cusses Its numerous possible lions The tattoo method of marking hogs Is simple Inexpensive and easily used A tattoo mark properly applied is as permanent as the skin itself Particularly Useful In the field of operative co marketing marketIng market market- ing where a number of ot farmers ship their hogs hobs in one lot the thc tattoo mark marl markis is particularly useful because of its conclusive e evidence of If the hogs hog's origin Such information Is If highly desirable as a basis for pa payment ment when diseased conditions appear at the time of slaughter From the standpoint of live stock health officials such identification of diseased hogs bogs Is useful also Hogs found to be can be traced to their source and other animals on the farm may be tested leading lending to the eradication of the disease The manner in which the tattooing of hogs hugs led to the discovery of tuberculosis in a poultry flock Is of practical In In- terest In the course of ins work a n shipment of tattooed hogs hobs to a central central marketing point proved pro to tobee be bee Infected with tuberculosis An In Inspector Inspector Inspector In- In visited the farm and applied the combination test to the remainder of the hogs on the farm with the tile result that practically per cent reacted to the Ian avian test test The inspector tor also found the chicken flock to tobe tobe tobe be badly Infected Tracing of Disease On the Inspectors Inspector's recommendation the owner sold his entire Hock flock of chi chickens kens restocking with da old day old chicks the following spring Later 32 hogs bogs from this farm were shipped to market and again identified by the tattoo mark A report on 27 7 of these animals showed ed that not one had been found infected the remainder were not note slaughtered under federal inspection inspection Inspection tion and a n report on them could not be obtained It was s reasonably apparent apparent ap ap- ap parent that the tracing of the disease slaughter of Infected flock flod cleaning and a restocking In with healthy chicks had removed remo the source of Infection The tattoo should also be of aid in studying results of feeding tests In Identifying tf carcasses in contests of various s kinds such as the familiar ton-litter ton competitions and In similar hies' hies where facts concerning the Sizel and quality of carcasses are arc desire de de- de- de sire sired In f fact ct any experimental work o Involving Ing studies of dressed carcasses offers a aa wide field for the use of ot tattoo marks marks A A copy of ot the circular may l be e ob obtained tamed by writing to the United States Department of AgrIc Agriculture W Washington Washing i ton D D. D C. C |