Lancaster Farming. Saturday. June 10. 1972
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New Toughness Urged
Hog Cholera Eradication
The National Hog Cholera,
Eradication Advisory Committee
has urged hog farmers,
veterinarians and animal health
officials to adopt a ‘new
toughness’ toward hog cholera.
“We need a new toughness, a
new kind of response that cannot
be written into regulations,” said
Keith Myers, committee member
and an lowa feeder-pig dealer.
The 12-member committee,
meeting in Indianapolis, Ind.,
asked animal health officials and
producers to regard hog cholera
in the same class as foot-and
mouth disease and African swine
fever. To implement this at
titude, they recommended
measures to further strengthen
the cooperative State-Federal
Hog Cholera Eradication
Program
Committee chairman Dr.
Francis J. Mulhern, Acting
Administrator of USDA’s Animal
and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS), said the
committee recommendations
dealt with problem areas where
hog cholera infection persists.
“We have beat hog cholera
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down to a level that we can
handle,” Or. Mulhern said. “But
from this point on we must bear
down to find and eradicate every
source of virus.”
The committee expressed
concern over the recent
recurrence of hog cholera in
widely separated areas where the
disease had not been seen in
many months. Members felt that
there was a need for stronger
quarantines, tighter control over
swine movements, and faster
action to contain outbreaks.
Committee member Dr. John
W. Montgomery, a practicing
veterinarian in Oklahoma, said,
“We will miss the goal for
nationwide eradication in 1972,
which we set eight years ago.
However, if our recom
mendations are implemented and
we all stay alert, hog cholera
should be eradicated by
December 1973.”
Committee recommendations
to APHIS and State Departments
of Agriculture include:
—Larger quarantine areas and
longer quarantine periods when
outbreaks occur, especially if the
Deere
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disease spreads to more than one
farm.
—Tighter control of swine
moving to slaughter from
quarantined areas.
—Stronger restrictions against
imports of swine and pork
products from nations where hog
cholera exists.
—A hog cholera buffer zone
along the U.S.-Mexico border,
staffed with full-time
diagnosticians and livestock
inspectors.
—lmmediate destruction of
swine herds (with quarantines
and indemnity payments) when
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Ag Price Index
The Index of Prices Received
by Farmers, which advanced 4
points (3 pet.) during the month
ended May 15 hit 123 (pet. of its
Jan.-Dee. 1967 average), tied the
all-time high established in
February 1951 and equalled in
April 1951. Prices were also 11
points (10 pet.) above a year ago.
Mainly responsible for the
April-to-May boost: Higher
livestock, fruit, vegetable, cotton
prices that more-than-offset
lower milk prices.
In the meantime, the Prices
Paid Index, which hit a record 125
a month earlier, stayed right
there last month. It was up 5
points (4 pet.) from a year
earlier. The Ratio of Prices
Received to Prices Paid ad
vanced 3 points to 98. It had been
at 93 a year earlier.'
Under the old 1910-14 formula,
Prices Received advanced 10
points to 313 and had been 285 a
year earlier; Prices Paid
remained at 428 and had been 410
a year earlier; and the Parity
Ratio advanced two points to 73,
and had been 70 a year earlier.
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clinical symptoms and diagnostic
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—Testing of State swine
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—Serum neutralization tests on
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