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Show CONTROL OF BANG'S DISEASE IN UTAH PROVING SUCCESSFUL Since work to control Bang's disease began in Utah in 1934, 277,489 cattle have been tested and results show that through careful following of the program the disease has been reduced Dr. D. E. Madsen, in charge of veterinary veter-inary for the Utah state experiment experi-ment station at the Utah State Agricultural colloge. The Utah state department of agriculture and the college, cooperating co-operating with the United States bureau of animal industry are directing dir-ecting this program which has been helping thousands of dairy farmers in the state. While in other states cooperation in the work is compulsory, it is a voluntary vol-untary undertaking in Utah. The field workers contact dairy herd owners and offer their services, and wherever these services are desired the workers make tests of the herds. AH work is done under contract. con-tract. The farmer signs a contract to get rid of all the animals that are designated as severely infected infect-ed and agrees not to buy any animals an-imals that may be infected. For those animals that he kills under this project the owner is reimbursed reim-bursed so that he will be able to replace the animal. Dr. Madsen stressed the fact that these infected animals may be slaughtered for beef purposes since the meat is not affected in any way. Testing at the present is being carried in at about the rate of 5,000 head of cattle each month. So far this year 30,933 have been tested with 1487 head reacting. This has dropped the percentage of reactors down to 4.8 percent as compared with the average number of reactors since the program pro-gram was started which is 6 per cent. There are 44 states in the nation na-tion cooperating in this work. |