Garbage Feeders In Trouble, Hogmen Told
The state Bureau of Animal
Industry is expected to take steps
to outlaw the feeding of garbage
to hogs in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Homer S. Forney, who is
directing the state’s hog cholera
eradication program for the
Bureau of Animal Industry, told a
group of farmers Thursday night
in Lancaster that most outbreaks
of the hog sickness can be traced
at least indirectly to garbage
feeding operations.
When asked if the state would
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consider outlawing garbage
feeding to hogs, Dr. Forney
answered, “It’s going to be
recommended.”
The veterinarian said there are
presently 56 licensed garbage
feeders in Pennsylvania, feeding
12,000 market hogs. Twenty-one
of these, he said are in the
vicinity of Philadelphia.
Three cases of hog cholera
were confirmed in Pennsylvania
herds in December after severe
outbreaks of the disease in New
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Dr. Forney emphasized to his
farmer audience that hog cholera
is a highly contagious virus
disease that absolutely cannot
affect humans
The disease is easily spread
through uncooked garbage,
animal waste, cattle trucks and
through direct contact, he said.
State law requires that all
garbage fed to hogs first be
cooked at 212 degrees for a
minimum of 30 minutes to
destroy the residual virus,
parasitic larvae and disease
organisms
However, Dr. Forney pointed
out that with some garbage
wrapped in plastic bags, even
properly cooked there could be
material inside the plastic bags
that never gets hot enough to
destroy the hog cholera virus.
“It can be eradicated,” he said,
“All it takes is one more big push
and we’re home ”
Pennsylvania’s recent out
breaks of the disease, that is
almost fatal to hogs, were traced
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back to the New Jersey infection
and Dr. Forney said he is now
optimistic the state will again
officially attain “hog cholera
free” status
“If you have sick hogs, think
hog choera first, and report it to
your veterinarian,” Dr. Everett
Denhnger, director of the Bureau
of Animal Industry, told the
farmers
Dr Denhnger also warned hog
producers that a vaccine known
as “BVD” should not be used in
place of hog cholera vaccine
John Henkel, of Strasburg Rl,
representing local hog producers,
said as a member of a panel that
he sees hog cholera not as a hog
problem but as “a people
problem ”
Henkel said the problem was
one of someone trying to "make a
fast buck,” adding that, “one
fellow can plaster hog cholera all
over the country ”
He said an identification
program marking all hogs so
their origin could be traced would
go a long way in helping locate
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Production-Spending
Survey Upcoming
A nationwide survey during
February will indicate how
farmers allocated their
production expenses during 1972
Trained enumerators from the
U S Department of Agriculture’s
Statistical Reporting Service
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Dr Forney assured him that
identification for hogs is coming,
since packers and farmers are
both asking for it
Speaking for the meat packer,
Christ Kunzler Jr said his firm
had a relatively short supply of
pork during the ban of hog sales
in the state
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