| Show tattooing swine v useful practice p marking makes it easy to identify animals after being slaughtered pro a by th the united state plate department of ArrI agriculture culture tattooing hogs bogs Is a practical means of marking them so BO they can be identified after slaughter according to tho the united states department of agriculture and tile the practice la Is useful in numerous ways it Is particularly valuable in identifying the ownership of hogs bogs in mixed shipments and in tracing any disease to tho the farm or other place of origin miscellaneous circular 67 57 M the tattoo method of marking hogs and its use recently issued in a revised form by the united states department of agriculture describes the tattooing instrument tells how to use ui it and discusses its numerous possible applications the tattoo method of marking hogs flogs Is simple inexpensive and easily used A tattoo mark properly applied la Is as permanent as the skin itself particularly useful in the field of operative cooperative co marketing where a number of farmers ship their hogs in one lot the tattoo mark Is particularly useful because of its conclusive evidence of the hogs origin such information Is highly desirable as a basis for payment when diseased conditions appear at the ume time of ig slaughter laughter from the standpoint of live stock health officials such identification of diseased hogs la Is useful also hogs found to be can bo be traced to their source lind and I 1 other animals on the farm may be tested leading to the eradication of the disease the manner in which the tattooing of hogs led to the discovery of tuberculosis in a poultry flock Is of practical interest in the course of investigational work a shipment of tattooed hogs to a central marketing point proved to be infected with tuberculosis an inspector visited tho the farm and applied the combination test to the remainder of the hogs on the farm with the result that practically per cent reacted to the tha avlan avian test the inspector also found the chicken flock to be badly infected tracing of disease on the inspectors recommendation the owner sold his entire flock of chickens re stocking with day old chicks tho the following spring later 82 32 hogs from this farm were shipped to market and again identified by the tattoo mark A report on 27 of these animals showed that not one had been found Infect infected eU the remainder we were re not slaughtered under federal inspection and a report on them could not he be obtained it was reasonably apparent that the tracing of the disease slaughter of infected flock cleaning and a re stocking with healthy chicks had bad removed the source of infection the tattoo should also be of aid in studying results of leading feeding tests in identifying carcasses in contests of various parlous kinds such as the familiar ton litter competitions and in similar activities where facts concerning the size and quality of carcasses are desired in fact any experimental work involving studies of dressed carcasses offers a wide field for the use ot of tattoo marks A copy of the circular may be obtained by writing to the united states department of agriculture agriculture washington D C |
