Animal
One down, one on the
opes, and one about to be
ackled-that sums up the
mlmal disease situation for
he U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) at the
ieginning of 1975.
Officials of USDA’s
Animal and Plant Health
nspection Service (APHIS)-
the agency responsible for
ontrolling and eradicating
inimal diseases-said that
974 marked the successful
onclusion of a $55 million
ight to wipe out exotic
Newcastle disease in
outhern California. The
lose-down of surveillance
ctivities there on July 3
ignalled an end to the
NOTICE
AUCTIONEERS!
We print sale bills.
Call 394-3047
for price.
LARGE FARM
FOR SALE
858 ACRES - 658 TILLABLE
Located in North Western Penna Fertile level
land 658 acres tillable 200 acres good Oak pine
and Locust woodland, 13 acre lake, 2 farm ponds
and never failing stream, 3 houses, 2- barns
$450 00 per acre Possession can be had with 10
percent down payment Can be financed over a
10-year period at 7 percent interest
PAUL E. SANGER, LEBANON, PA
935 East Maple Street
717-272-1025 or 933-8187
PUBLIC AUCTION
OF DAIRY HERD,
FARM MACHINERY
THURS., FEBRUARY 13
10:30 a.m.
LOCATION. Go north on Rt 72 from Manheim to Mt Hope Mobile
Homes Turn left onto Cider Press Rd , then left on Colebrook Rd to
farm in the town of Mastersonville Watch for Sale Arrows
80 HEAD HOLSTEINS
This high grade herd consists of 41 mature cows, and
is a relatively young herd, showing good size and dairy
type. 4 cows fresh by sale date; 2 due Feb The
majority of this milking herd are milking heavy and
due July, August, and Sept. This is a good opportunity
to buy top milkers due the right tune. Also to be sold
are 22 bred heifers all due July, Aug., and Sept.; one of
which is a registered Astronaut daughter plus 18 open
heifers from calves to yearlings. All cows & bred
heifers will be checked for pregnancy. Herd is on
Owner Sampler & individual cow records will be given
Mueller 650 gal. vacuum milk tank with 4 hp. com
pressor. 4 DeLaval milkers; No. 75 DeLaval vacuum
pump with 2 hp. motor. Jamesway Barn Cleaner;
Mueller tank washer; Bender dumping station; 52 gal
hot water heater; tubs; milker rack.
Dairy Sale Approximately, 12:30
Under Tent.
15 Ton Ear Corn 7Ton Straw
N.H. 469 haybme; Grove chuck wagon with roof:
Kool blower; J.D. KBA 28 transport disc; 2 -18’ hay
wagons with 8' sides; J.D. 246 4-row cornplanter 3-pt.;
Hawkbilt manure spreader; 200 gal. P.K. sprayer on
trailer, like new; M.F. No. 61 1-row mounted corn
picker; J.D. 4-bottom 14” plow 3-pt.; 38’ Little Giant
elevator; M.F. front & rear cultivators; N.H. 717
Narrow 2-row harvester & grass head; J.D. grinder
mixer; N.H. 268 baler & Trhower; 2 barn fans 30” x 36”
with thermostats; mineral feeder; liquid protein
feeder; Calf stalls; fence & posts; feed cart, and many
other small items not mentioned.
SALE ORDER: Some small items; farm
machinery; milking equip.; dairy herd.
Terms by:
Alvin & Mary Good
(717) €65-6133
Randal V. Kline (717) 626-4975
' Lloyd H. Kreider, Auctioneers
Clifford Gibble - Records
LUNCH AVAILABLE
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS
Disease Summary
nation's largest animal nearly 12 million poultry
disease eradication cam- d ied or were destroyed to
paign in more than 40 years. stO P exotic Newcastle.
Exotic Newcastle disease, APHIS officials pointed
a foreign virus affecting out that the disease
poultry and other birds, currently ‘‘on the ropes" is
slipped into this country in ho 8 cholera-a malady that
November 1971, in a ship- annually struck an
ment of infected pet birds estimated 5,000 to 6,000 swine
imported into southern herds and cost hog farmers
California. Though not a some $5O million before a
hazard to consumers, exotic cooperative state-federal
Newcastle is fatal to poultry campaign was launched in
and therefore could have late 1962 to eradicate the
drastically reduced poultry disease. Last year, only one
and egg supphes-boostmg infected herd was found in
prices accordingly-had it the continental United
been allowed to spread States-m Mississippi in
through the nation’s laying February-plus three in
and broiler flocks. "'Puerto Rico in May, com-
To combat this threat. P ared wit h 16 throughout the
Secretary of Agriculture country in 1973 and 205 in
Earl L. Butz declared a *972.
national animal disease
emergency in March 1972-
thus freeing manpower and
federal funds for an all-out
eradication campaign.
Before the last infected flock
was found on June 28, 1973,
“All 50 states, Puerto and
the U.S. Virgin Islands are
now designated as ’hog
cholera free’” said Dr. John
M. Hejl, deputy ad
ministrator of APHIS’
Veterinary Services.
“However, we can’t consider
this disease officially
eradicated until at least 18
months have passed from
the time of the last outbreak.
“We must continue to
remain alert for both of these
diseases,” Dr. Hejl stressed.
“At the same time, we can
turn our attention to the
disease that now has number
I pnority-brucellosis.”
Although 99 percent of the
nation’s cattle have been
freed of this costly disease,
the rate of infection has been
rising during the last 2 years
-partly because of the at
tention devoted to the
emergency exotic Newcastle
and hog cholera situations.
The bulk of the brucellosis
infection is concentrated in
II southern and southeastern
states where 89 percent of all
the known infected cattle
herds exist.
PUBLIC SALE
FARM MACHINERY
HOLSTEIN DAIRY CATTLE
*'i mile Northeast of Strasburg, along Fairview
Road from Strasburg to Paradise.
FRI. FEB. 28,1975
37 Head of High Grade Holstein Dairy Cattle
17 milk cows, 5 due Feb. & Mar , bal throughout year.
4 bred heifers
9 breeding age
3 8-month old heifeis
3 6-month old heifeis
2 heifei calves
All A B S Bleeding, 30 da> test with charts sale day.
A i tiling herd with good udders Sale held in tent.
Deut 7 6006 diesel tiaclor with 1150 his
Minneapolis Molnu 4 Stai tractoi (both have
good rubber)
Fox Industi tal 546 lorage hancstoi with 1 low
coin head & hav pickup, AC hoppei blowci. AC.
Image wagon (like new), MM 1 bottom 16 in trip
bottom plow 9 loot spnng haiiow, cultipackei
20 x 60 HARVESTORE (4 YR.)
Tutu national ‘WO mowei conditionei ( ) It Faun
hand wheel take 18 li hale wauon with lalse hunt
80 It Smoku hale eleiatoi . Walsh uop spiajei 200
eal hhu “lass lank John Deeie Had choppei. 1 11 C
2 urn cm nplaniet Ipi Hat bed uauon. Bullion shine
stand siedei Ipi Dai I I lad manui e spi eadei 12 It
mam auuoi
Not main small items
100 ual Moionmei \at uam tank w ith 1 hp Lelm>h
compussoi Stum Model I) \auinm pump 1 10 11)
Some nnlku 1 -11 Ih Same nnikeis SS stiainet.
hnikcts & double wash tubs 2 lend calls Sunbeam
<ow c lippi t s milk sc ales
.1. E\eret( Kronler
Carl Dilfer, Auctioneers
"During the past year,"
Dr. Hejl pointed out, 'we got
the commitment of the
livestock industry to move
forward to eradicate this
disease. We have also
identified areas where the
eradication program needs
to be strengthened--
particularly in those 11
problem states.
"With our current level of
funding,” he continued, “we
can maintain the eradication
effort at an adequate level
during the first six months of
1975 and, hopefully, intensify
our efforts during the last six
months.”
In other APHIS animal
health programs, nearly
7,300 cases of screw worms
were reported during 1974,
compared with 15,000 in 1973.
Work continued on con
struction of a new sterile
screwworm fly factory in
Tuxtla Gutierrez in southern
Mexico, as part of a joint
U.S. -Mexico screwworm’
eradication program.
This program is designed
to push a screwworm barrier
zone south from the 2,000-
mile long U.S.-Mexico
border to the 135-mile-wide
Isthmus of Tehuantepec in
southern Mexico. Com
pletion of this eradication
program should prevent
future seasonal invasions of
screwworms into the United
States.
As a part of APHIS
continuing effort to keep
foot-and-mouth disease
(FMD) out of the United
States, agreements were
signed during 1974 with
Panama and Colombia.
Under these agreements, all
three countries are
cooperating to prevent FMD
from crossing the Darien
Gap-an area of dense jungle
and rain forest which acts as
a natural barrier to the in
troduction of this costly
disease from infected
countries of South America.
APHIS veterinarians are
AND
11:30 A.M.
I'eims In,
A. STANLEY GROFF
717-687-7982
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Feb. 1,1975
now on the scene in Fanama
and Colombia to help in
crease surveillance ac
tivities and establish
"buffer" zones essentially
free of livestock on both
sides of the Panama-
Colombia border. When
these buffer zones arc
completed, it will permit
construction of the last
segment of the Pan-
American highway across
the Darien Gap
In other APHIS veterinary
services programs during
1974, horse owners and
trainers paid over $lB,OOO in
civil and criminal penalties
for violating the Horse
Protection Act, which
outlaws the cruel and
inhumane practice of
“soring” Tennessee Walking
Horses to enhance their gait
in the show ring. APHIS
officials reported that use of
the thermovision machme-a
heat-sensitive scanner that
reveals irritated and in
flamed flesh-was a prune
factor in detecting sored
horses. The thermovision
machine uses infrared
electronic signals to record
temperature readings on a
screen, with the results
shown color patterns that
can be photographed and
used as evidence in legal
proceedings.
Under the Animal Welfare
Act, APHIS has licensed or
registered about 5,000
animal dealers, 1,200
exhibitors and 1,000 research
facilities using animals in
research.
In September 1974, a
special task force of APHIS
veterinarians and livestock
inspectors, in cooperation
with state animal health
workers, moved in to control
an outbreak of bovine
tuberculosis in Georgia.
Because of numerous sales
from the original infected
herd, between 700 and 800
potentially infected herds in
Georgia and surrounding
states have to be treated for
TB. Tp date, 12 additional
infected herds have been
located. In the proceeding 12
months, about 30 infected
SALE EVERY
TUESDAY
Grided Sale
Ist Tuesday each month
2PM
Horse Auction
2nd Saturday each month
■ FAUQUIER
I LIVESTOCK
|EXCHANGE
Marshall, Va.
703:364-4861
horse" SALE
p# WEDHESMY, FEB. 5
PAUL Z. MARTIN’S
2 Miles East of Intercourse, Pa ,
Along Route 340.
2 Load of WORK HORSES and MULES and 10
SADDLE and DRIVING HORSES from Kentucky
STANDARDBRED HORSES from New York
State
LOCAL HORSES
Horses Hitched at 9 30 a m Tack 11am
Horses at 12 30 pm
PAUL Z. MARTIN
BLUE BALL, PENNA. 17506
Residence - 717-354-6671
Business - 717-768-8108
MARTIN AUCTIONEERS
Hay, Straw & Corn Sale Every
Wednesday at 12 noon
.herds were found in the
entire United States,
Continued surveillance
and testing of veterinary
biologies kept nearly 150
million doses of un
satisfactory products off the
market during 1974, APHIS
enforces the Virus-Scrum-
Toxin Act of 1913, designed to
ensure that animal vaccines
and other veterinary
biologies arc safe, pure,
potent and effective. In this
area, APHIS officials also
took action in mid-year to
speed up the distribution of
anthrax vaccine to livestock
producers in central Texas,
to help state officials contain
an outbreak of that disease.
Efforts to eliminate cattle
scabies outbreaks in south
western and midwestern
states continued during 1974.
A total of 39 infected herds in
six states were located and
treated to eliminate scabies
mites. In 1973, cattle scabies
was found in 48 herds in ten
states.
A program to eradicate an
outbreak of cattle fever ticks
discovered around Alice,
Tex., in August, 1972 also
continued. During the year,
quarantines were removed
from four Texas counties
and extended in two others.
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