Hog Cholera Committee Advocates
Expanded use of Statewide
quarantines and tighter en
forcement of marketing
restrictions have been advocated
by the Secretary of Agriculture’s
National Hog Cholera
Eradication Advisory Committee
as a means to help rid the
Nation’s swine industry of this
disease.
Meeting at Miami Beach, Fla.,
recently in conjunction with the
annual meeting of the U.S.
Animal Health Association, the
12-member group said that
outbreaks of hog cholera this past
summer set back the progress
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made to eradicate the disease
from the United States.
The Advisory Committee ex
pressed strong support of the Oct.
11 action by Secretary of
Agriculture Earl L. Butz,
declaring a national emergency,
following the series of hog
cholera outbreaks in several
midwestern and southeastern
States. As a result of these out
breaks, six States - Georgia,
Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska,
Ohio and Tennessee - lost their
designation of being "hog cholera
free”.
To combat future outbreaks of
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this kind, the Advisory Com
mittee recommended that
Federal quarantines and
Statewide “hold” orders be
imposed on the movement of all
swine whenever an outbreak
occurs involving hogs which have
been moved through a market.
This combination of State hold
orders and Federal quarantines,
the Committee said, should in
clude all States from which hogs
were shipped to the “exposed”
markets, and to which hogs were
shipped from that market - as
well as the State in which the hog
cholera outbreak occurred.
The Statewide hold orders
would be imposed temporarily,
until all hogs which had passed
through exposed markets could
be tracked down and the extent of
infection determined. Such ac
tion, the Committee emphasized,
would greatly reduce the
possibility of further spread of
the disease through other
markets and farm areas.
Other recommendations by the
Committee included iden
tification of swine so they can be
traced to the farm of origin;
more thorough inspection at all
swine marketing points; tighter
controls over the movement of
“cull” pigs; and intensified
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enforcement by State agencies of
regulations requiring the cooking
of food waste (garbage) before
feeding to swine.
The Committee also recom
mended revitalization of State
hog cholera advisory committees
and revision of the present
classification of States into four
phases, based on progress made
in eradication of hog cholera.
States hereafter should be con
sidered as either “infected” or
“non-infected” according to the
Committee. It acknowledged that
the existing 4-phase classification
has providedior orderly progress
toward eradication during earlier
years when the disease situation
varied much more between
States than at present.
The Committee urged that the
present national emergency on
hog cholera be continued for at
least 3 years after the last State
has been declared “free” of the
disease.
Norwood McGuigan
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Joins Albers
Norwood M. McGuigan has
joined Albers Milling Company
as the Specialty Feeds
representative for Maryland,
Pennsylvania, and Delaware,
according to Dick Cooper, Sales
Manager, Specialties Division of
Albers Milling Company.
Prior to joining Albers, he
served as production manager,
agricultural salesman and farm
manager for three New York and
Pennsylvania firms.
McGuigan received a B.S. in
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Fulton Grange
Selling Cookbooks
Fulton Grange 66 held its
regular meeting at the Grange
Hall, Oakryn, November 27 at 8
p.m. with the Master, Richard
Holloway, conducting the
business session. A donation of
$41.30 was given to the Lancaster
County Mental Health
Association for their Christmas
Fund.
The Women’s Activities
committee is selling the new
edition of the Pennsylvania State
Grange cookbook. Recipes of
several local Grange women are
in this cookbook. Mrs. Charles
Reath is chairman of the com
mittee.
Members of Fulton Grange will
attend Corn and Pie Night at
Russellville Grange December 7
at 8 p.m. and present a program
with the theme “Centennial Kick-
Off 1973.” Grange ladies are to
take plain or spiced pumpkin or
apple pies and the men are to
take either a single ear or a ten
ear exhibit of corn.
The theme for the program at
the next meeting of Fulton
Grange, December 11, will be
“Twas The Night Before
Christmas” and there will be a $1
gift exchange. The Junior Grange
will also have a gift exchange.
December 16 the Grange will
go Christmas caroling. There will
be no meeting December 25.
January 8 the Junior Grange will
have a paper drive.
Rev. William Drury, founder
and director of Teen Haven,
Willow Street Pike, spoke to the
Grange on “Reaching The
Unreachables” at Monday
night’s meeting. There are five
Teen Haven centers in
Philadelphia, one in Washington,
D.C., one in Buffalo, N.Y. and one
in Lancaster.
Animal Husbandry at Delaware
Valley College. While in college,
he was a member of the Animal
Husbandry dub, the Varsity
Club and was Chairman of
Agriculture Day in 1961 and 1962.
He served in the United States
Air Force for eight years and was
honorably discharged in 1962.
McGuigan and his wife Dee
reside at Red Lion with their
three children. In addition to
hobbies of fishing, horses and
dogs, he is a member of the
BP.O. Elks.
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