—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 11, 1973
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Modified-Certified Brucellosis Status Achieved
The U S Department of
Agriculture (USDA) reported
that all 3,153 counties in the
United States, Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands have achieved
initial “modified-certified
brucellosis area” status Nueces
County, Texas qualified June 28,
completing the achievement.
Officials of USDA’s Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service
(APHIS), explain that counties
the OLD
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AUG. 13-19, 1973
Do something for you, or least threaten to.
From now ’til the end of this month is the best time to bud
fruit trees . . . Babe Euth died Aug. 16, 1948 . . . The Full
Sturgeon Moon Aug. 13 . . . Shrimp Fleet Blessing in
Louisiana this week . . . Average length of days for week,
13 hours, 51 minutes .. . Dog days end Aug. 19. .. . But cat
nights commence now . . . L.A. flies U.S. flag Aug. 13, 1846
. A burden which one chooses is not felt.
Old Farmer’s Riddle: What bar
opens but never shuts? (Answer
below.)
Ask the Old Farmer; In the 1930’s
there was a country store in New
England that sold a cheddar
cheese they claimed was aged in
a manure pile. Of course under
sanitary conditions. I have eaten
this cheese, and found it deli
cious. Is the aging method fact
or fiction? E. M. 8., Philadelphia.
Fact. Of course, "under sanitary conditions .” Horse manure
is favored, as we get it.
Home Hints After waxing your linoleum floor* prevent marks by waxing
the bottoms of your rockers and chair legs Candles will burn longer
if you chill them thoroughly in the refrigerator before use Riddle
answer A crowbar.
OLD FARMER’S WEATHER FORECASTS
New England: Don’t forget your umbrella: rain all week.
Greater New York-New Jersey: Heavy rain to start, tempera
tures cooling off; lighter rain continuing through latter part,
then cloudy and hot on weekend.
Middle Atlantic Coastal: Rain and hot at first, then cooler by
midweek; ram continuing latter part. Warmer on weekend.
Southeast Coastal-Piedmont: Moderately heavy ram to start,
then partial clearing through end of week; rain all week
along coast.
Florida: Intermittent ram and hot all week.
Upstate & Western N.Y.-Toronto & Montreal: Clear and warm
through midweek, then ram continuing to end of week.
Greater Ohio Valley: Partly cloudy most of week, then rain
on weekend in west; ram all week in east.
Deep South: Light rain and hot throughout the week.
Chicago and Southern Great Lakes: Week begins clear and hot,
then ram and cooler by midweek; showers latter part.
Northern Great Plains-Great Lakes: Rain and warm most of
week; partial clearing on weekend.
Central Great Plains: Rain to start, then some clearing by mid
\\ eek; lam and warm latter part.
Texas-Oklahoma: Most of week hot and rainy; partial clearing
bv weekend.
Rocky Mountain Region: Cloudy to start, then light ram by
midweek, clear and hot latter part.
Southwest Desert: Week begins partly cloudy, then light rain
before midweek; end of week cloudy with highs to mid-IOOs.
Pacific Northwest: First part of week cloudy and cool; re
mainder of week mostly clear and hot.
California: Clear and warm through midweek, then light rain
and cooler to end of week.
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quality for this status of the
cooperative state-federal
brucellosis eradication program
when no more than five percent
of the herds and not more than
one percent of the cattle are
found to be infected during an 18-
month testing period.
APHIS officials also reported
that three counties that had
previously lost modified-certified
brucellosis area status have been
reinstated, but that two counties
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have been removed from the
official listing of qualified
counties. All of the actions are
effective upon publication in the
Federal Register, scheduled for
July 30, 1973.
The counties reinstated by
APHIS are Nemaha in Nebraska,
and McMullen and Uvalde in
Texas. The counties that have
lost official status are Dewey and
Seminole in Oklahoma
A county’s brucellosis area
status may be revoked for failure
to comply with one or more of the
following minimum
requirements of the cooperative
state-feder-al brucellosis
eradication program:
-Retest infected herd for
brucellosis within six months.
--Test or quarantine the herd of
origin of an infected animal found
through the market cattle testing
(MCT) program. If quarantined,
the herd must be tested within six
months
--Test a dairy herd within 30
days after a suspicious
brucellosis milk ring test (BRT)
has been reported.
Modified-certified brucellosis
area status is not revoked, if state
officials take action to correct the
deficiencies. When program
deficiencies have been corrected,
APHIS officials explain, a
county’s brucellosis status is
reinstated.
The goal of the cooperative
state-federal brucellosis
eradication program is to
eliminate this diesease from all
domestic livestock. To accomlish
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this goal, cattlemen are urged to
intensify their efforts to
eradicate the disease from their
herds and thereby qualify their
cattle and their counties as
‘‘certified brucellosis-free.' ’
To qualify as a “certified
brucellosis-frfee area”, no more
than one percent of the herds and
not more than 0.2 percent of the
cattle can be found infected
during the 18-month testing
period immediately preceding
the request for certification, and
all herds must be free of
brucellosis before recognition is
authorized by USDA.
Nationally, over 61 percent of
the 3,153 counties in the United
States, Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands have qualified as
“certified brucellosis-free.” All
counties in 30 states and the
Virgin Islands have achieved this
status.
The qualified states are:
Arizona, California, Connecticut,
Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, In
diana, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan,
Minnesota, Montana, Nevada,
New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Penn
sylvania, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, Utah, Vermont,
Virginia, Washington, West
Virginia and Wisconsin.
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