30—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 21, 1972
Pork Imports Halted from
Cholera-Infected Countries
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) has
amended its import regulations
to prohibit the importation of live
hogs and fresh pork from nations
where hog cholera is known to
exist.
Officials of USDA’s Animal and
HALES © HUNTER CO.
FEED LETTER
CORN IS CORN??
I used to think that corn was corn, and that’s that,
‘faint so. There’s five different grades, I was told,
ranging from 8.4 per cent protein to 9.1 per cent
protein, and 73.9 per cent t.d.n. to 81.9 per cent t.d.n.
Not only that, but most feed ingredients can vary, or
come in different forms or values. For instance there is
five ways to buy brewer’s grains, twelve different kinds
of distillers products, eight kinds of fish meals, seven
kinds of linseed meals, seven kinds of molasses, five
kinds of oats, seven kinds of soy bean meals, seven
kinds of tankage, and twenty-four different kinds of
wheat products, 1 was told. And too, I was told, there is
400 plus, other ingredients to choose from. Things like
velvet beans, whale meat, starfish meal, skimmilk,
pigeon-grass seed, olive pulp, began head chops
(huh 7 ), and ammomated furfural residue. Whew l
Seems to me a farmer better get to know his feed
company, what, with so many pit-falls and op
portunities around, who knows what we’re getting or
missing out on?
Kmda makes a body wonder, don’t it?
£?! ELMER M. SHREINER
Trading as Good’s Feed Mill
■ Specializing In DAIRY & HOG FEEDS
New Providence, Pa.
Phone 786-2500
SINCE 1870
Plant Health Inspections Service
(APHIS) said the action becomes
effective immediately, to
eliminate any possibility that
additional hog cholera infection
could be introduced into the U.S.,
and thereby add to the spreading
outbreak which has recently hit
several midwestern and
southeastern States.
The change adds hog cholera
infected countries to the list of
National Awards Made
To Firefighter Heroes
National heroism awards
to firefighters have been an
nounced by Ward LaFrance,
a fire engine manufacturer.
Captain John T. Dunne of
Ladder Co. 175 Brooklyn,
N.Y., who gave his life to
rescue children he believed
trapped on the third floor of
a Brooklyn tenement, was
named top recipient of Ward
JLaFrance’s First Annual Fire
Industry Awai d for Heroism,
The $3,000 award was pre
sented to his widow, and a
gold enscribcd plaque bear
ing his name and commemo
rating this achievement was
presented to his family.
The second award of $l,OOO
was shared by two fire
fighters: Captain David T.
Darby of the Oklahoma City
Fire Department, Oklahoma
City, Okla. and Luther P. Lu
dolf, firefighter-driver of the
Birmingham Fire Depart
ment, Birmingham, Ala. They
also received silveV plaques.
Three firemen were nomi
nated for the third award of
.$5OO, the first posthumously
to fireman Joseph P. Jenkins
of Salisbury, N. C. and the
other to a team of two fire
fighters, Assistant Chiefs
David Voiles and Roy Mc-
Carty of Fayetteville, N. Y.
Bronze plaques were also
presented.
countries infected with foot-and
mouth disease and African swine
fever and from which no live hogs
or fresh pork can be imported
into the United States. APHIS
officials explained that only
Australia, New Zealand, Canada,
Northern Ireland and the
Republic of Ireland are con
sidered free of the three diseases
and therefore will be eligible to
ship fresh pork and live hogs into
the U.S.
“The recent outbreak of hog
cholera has reemphasized the
difficulty of eradicating this
disease from the U. 5.,” APHIS
Administrator Dr. F. J. Mulhern
said. “While our former
regulations were considered
adequate to protect U.S.
producers from foreign swine
diseases in general, as we ap
proach the point of eradication of
hog cholera, we must ensure that
all potential sources of infection
have been closed off,” he em
phasized.
Dr. Mulhen indicated that
considerable progress has been
made in elim nating this deadly
swine disease from the U.S.,
since the Cooperative State-
Federal hog cholera eradication
program began in 1962. He noted,
however, that the recent out
breaks apparently resulted in -
part from a degree of com
placency that has occurred along
with this progress. Dr. Mulhem
stressed that everyone in the
swine business must continue to
rigidly observe all of the
prescribed precautions to
prevent the spread of hog
cholera—especially to thoroughly
cook all garbage and meat scraps
fed to hogs.
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