—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. April 28. 1973
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Sperry New Holland engineers Lawrence Halls {left), and
Earl Koch (right) and industrial design coordinator, C. J.
Kermes (center) have been cited for their work in product
design by the American Iron and Steel Institute and In
dustrial Design magazine. Halls has been a project engineer
with the company since 1959, while Koch has been there
since 1951. Between them, they hold some 40 U.S. patents
for agricultural equipment. Kermes, a noted painter as well
as an industrial designer, has been honored before for his
product designs.
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Raw Garbage-fed Hogs
Slap tattooing with a special
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program started in
Massachusetts recently to- make
sure that hogs fed raw garbage
move in compliance with state
and federal shipping rules.
State law requires that garbage
fed to swine must be heated to 212
deg. F. for 30. minutes. This
eliminates the causative
organisms of hog< cholera and
other animal diseases that might
be present in ipeat scraps in the
garbage. However, if hogs are
fed raw or improperly cooked
garbage-and thus" possibly ex
posed to such diseases-they are
put under quarantine and-must
comply with special shipping
rules designed to prevent the
spread of disease.
But since this limits markets
and thus reduces market prices
there is a great temptation to
illegally divert hogs into regular
marketing channels. And once a
hog leaves the farm, how can you
tell that he’s been fed raw gar
bage?
That, say officials of the
Massachusetts “ Department
of Agricultures’ Division of
Animal Health, is where the slap
tattoo comes in.
When state or federal in
spectors in Massachusetts find
hogs fed raw or improperly
cooked garbage, they quarantine
the herd and tatoo the hogs with a
special combination of letters
and numbers. This identifying
mark is applied with a long
handled tattoo instrument that
imbeds the ink in the hog’s hide.
At the time of slaughter and de
bristling, the Massachusetts code
tattoo becomes visible, clearly
identifying the hog as having
been fed raw garbage. State and
federal meat inspectors in
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states who have been alerted to
the Massachusetts program and
the identifying code have been'
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with this tattoo, Massachusetts
and U.S. Department of
Agriculture officials can then
identify the herd owner wbp
violated the quarantine and take
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bage either be butchered on the
farm of origin or shipped-under
permit-to (1) a state-inspected
slaughter plant within the state
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or (2) a federally inspected plant
where they must be specially
processed (deboned and cooked).
“We hope this program will
prove valuable in restricting the
interstate movement of
quarantined animals, especially
raw garbage-fed swine,” says
Dr. Walter C. _ Ferrall,
Veterinarian-in-Charge for
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service in the
southern New England region.
“If we can successfully identify
these swine, we can bring the
goal of eradication of hog cholera
and other swine diseases just that
much closer.”
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HONEYBROOK, PENNSYLVANIA
(215) 273-3958
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