—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, 1976
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4-H goat club organized
Officers of the Blue Mountain 4-H
Goat Club look over 4-H project book
at their recent organization meeting.
From left, Sharon and Susan Karsok,
Ringtown, secretaries; Cheryl Esch
bach,Kempton, vice-president; Mike,
Jim, and Dave Najarian, Kempton,
president, treasurer, and social
chairman, respectively. Plans for.
future meetings include educational
activities such as learning how to
judge goats, care for goats, fit and
Cholera
State and federal hog
cholera quarantines were
lifted from Salem county,
N.J. April 5 the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
reported.
Still under hog cholera
quarantine in southern New
Jersey are Gloucester,
Camden, and Burlington
counties, according to of
ficials of USDA’s Animal and
Plant Health Inspection
Service, (APHIS).
ln quarantined counties,
swine may move direct to
slaughter, but only after a
permit is issued by a state or
federal animal health of
ficial. Swine from counties
outside the federal
quarantine area are sub
jected to state requirements.
The entire state of Rhode
Island and all but six
counties of Massachuestts
(Berkshire, Hampshire,
Franklin, Hampden, Dukes,
and Nantuckett) are likewise
quarantined for hog cholera.
show goats, and other related
management practices. In addition,
the members plan to take trips and
tours, and participate in dairy goat
shows. Meetings are held at 7:00 p.m.
on the second Thursday of each
month at the Penn State Schuylkill
Campus. The club is open to all boys
and girls in Schuylkill, Carbon, and
Lehigh counties between the ages of
8 and 19 who are interested in
learning more about the care of goats.
quarantine eased
Though highly infectious and
often fatal to swine, the
disease affects no other
animals and is harmless to
people who eat meat.
APHIS officials said this is
the second relaxation of the
federal quarantine in New
Jersey since the entire state
was quarantined on March 2.
The first such action came
March 16 when the
quarantine was reduced to
four counties.
Hog cholera in New Jersey
swine herds was diagonsed
Feb. 24- the state’s first case
in slightly over three years.
It was only the fourth out
break in the nation in the
past two and a half years.
Thus far, all cases in New
Jersey have been confined to
Gloucester county.
In new Jersey, nine in
fected and 12 exposed herds
comprising about 16,000 hogs
have been destroyed as a
means of preventing further
spread of the disease. In
Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, six infected and 15
exposed herds containing
about 3,300 hogs have been
destroyed. Owners are in
demnified for swine losses.
A cooperative state
federal hog cholera
eradication program was
begun in late 1962 with the
aim of eliminating the
disease in this country. Field
teams of state and federal
animal health officials are in
the outbreak areas, working
to contain and wipe out in
fection.
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