-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 12,1971
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Anthrax Disease in Cattle Is a Thing of the Past - - Almost
Small-fry cowboys may be dis
appointed to learn that Main
land's folklore never included
the lomance of cattle trails in
the Old West
And modern-day writers of
television Westerns pi obably
aren’t aware that even real-life
seasoned cowboy s on cattle drives
often had to turn their heads
the other way to avoid the ugly
sight and stench of rotting car
casses resulting fiom wildfire
epidemics of killer diseases like
blackleg and anthrax
Except where conservationists
(have preserved short stretches,
the cattle trails have long dis
appeared And the dreaded
cattle-killer epidemics have been
considered so well under control
that vaccrnes for them are even
somewhat difficult to obtain
4-H Calendar
Saturday, June 12
Nebraska 4-H’ers visit Lancas
ter County
Monday, June 14
12 30 pm. Meiry Maids 4-H
Club, Martin Meylm Junior
High School
Camp Kanesatake, June 14-18
Tuesdaj, June 15
Bergstiasse 4-H Club
9am
meeting
7 pm—Gaiden Spot Commun
ity 4-H Club meeting, Gir
vm’s Greenhouse, 17 W
Mam St, Leola, and J
Donald Myer’s farm, 410 Wil
low Road
730 p m —4-H Guernsey Club,
■ Clark Coates farm, Notting
ham RD2
8 pm —4-H County Council
meeting, Farm and Home
Center.
Elizabethtown Donegal 4-H
Club, home of Harold Ney.
Wednesday, June 16
10 am—4-H Strawbeiry Exhibit
and Roundup, Farm and
Home Center
Landisville 4-H Sewing Club
meeting
Ayrshire, Jersey. Brown Swiss
meeting, James Mai tin
farm, Stevens RDI
Thursday, June 17
Ipm —4-H Ti actoi tour of New
Holland Division, meet at
Farm and Home Centei
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But, guess what’ Anthrax is
still around And a one-farm
outbreak of it has occurred twice
in the last 3Vz years in an un
likely spot like Maryland’s East
ern Shoie far lemoved from
the legendary cattle trails
According to Dr Robert C.
Hammond, University of Mary
land Extension veterinarian,
anthrax was diagnosed by a lo
cal veterinarian recently in a
Kent County dairy herd The
diagnosis was confirmed by
State Boaid of Agriculture ani
mal health laboratories at both
Cenh-eville and College Park
The case was repoited to the
Maryland State Department of
Health, and milk from the affect
ed herd was prevented from go
ing into market channels for hu
man consumption during a three
week period.
Anthrax in animals is a form
of septicemia or blood poison
ing causing an acute infec
tious fever and malignant skin
caibuncle. Dr Hammond com
mented in a recent interview It
is often fatal, but animals can
be saved with antibiotics, if
therapy is begun in time
Anthrax can also be transmit
ted to man One form of the
malady in humans is wool sor
ter’s disease, which affects the
lungs, pioducing a fatal form of
pneumonia
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How did anthrax get to Maiy
land and particularly the
Eastern Shore’ Dr Hammond
believes the answer is found m
the nature of the organisms
which produce the disease
These rod-shaped bacteria
form spores which can live in
the soil for hundreds of years
When conditions of humidity,
temperature and ground mois
ture are right, they become ac
tive. One theory holds that an
thrax-producing spores are asso
ciated with low spots in a pas
ture where vegetation dies and
becomes rotted
The anthrax spores were, prob
ably transported to Maryland in
hone meal used for fertilizer
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June 2 at Avalon, New Jersey.
The Boaid announced the offi
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Trading will officially begin
July 5.
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The structures of the twenties (and others of even earlier times)
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electrical, water, and waste-disposal systems badly overburdened,
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prior to the advent of modernstrategic loations around the
chemical fertilizers Bone meal country to maintain constants
and tankage are still used b> vigilance. These exotic disease
gardeners and livestock feeders, specialists have the mission of
but modern heat treatment tern- keeping isolated outbreaks ol
peratures used nowadays are old-time killer diseases like
high enough to kill the organ- the anthrax outbreak in Kenti
isms. County from ever again reach*
The original Kent County out- e P ldemic Proportions,
break in September 1967 was The federal veterinariai
associated with excavation in an charged with such surveillance
old site following a barn fire, for Maryland and surrounding
Dr. Hammond noted. states is located at the USDA’a
U.S. Department of Agricul- Agricultural Research Center
tuie veterinarians are spotted m Beltsville.
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