E4—Lancaster Fannins, Saturday, January 10,1981
LANCASTER - The U S.
Department of Agriculture
is testing swine blood from
federally inspected
slaughter plants to deter
mine how widespread
pseudorabies is in this
country, a USDA
veterinarian said
“Blood samples are being
collected at federally in
spected slaughter plants
throughout the country,”
said James Downard, chief
staff veterinarian for swine
diseases for USDA’s Animal
and Plant Health Inspection
Service “The samples will
be tested for the presence of
pseudorabies virus at the
National Veterinary Ser
vices Laboratories in Ames,
lowa
“The blood samples will be
collected at various intevals
during the plants’ operating
Census report
(Continued from Page E 2)
Eighty-seven percent of
the operators owned all or
part of tJie farms they
operated, with 15 million
fully owned, 714,000 partly
owned, and 313,000 operated
by tenants
Farming was the principal
occupation of 1 3 million or
54 percent of the operators,
while 1.2 million spent most
of their work time at a
nonfarm occupation
Eighty percent of the
operators who reported
place of residence lived on
the farm they operated
U.S. farmers were
younger on the average than
in 1974, 50 1 years compared
with 517 The youngest on
the average, 48 8 years were
in the North Central States,
the oldest, 51 3, in the South
Some 128,000 farms, five
percent, were operated by
women The South had the
greatest number. 69,000 or
seven percent of its farms,
the Northeast the least, 8,900
or six percent
On a percentage basis, the
North Central States
reported fewest women
operators, three percent
Farm product sales of
$lOO,OOO or more were
recorded by nine percent or
224,000 farms, 588,000, 24
percent, sold $40,000 or
more, 895,000 had sales of
$20,000 or more, and 16
million had sales of less than
$20,000
The improvements in
completeness in the 1978
census were in two areas
The first was an expansion of
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USDA blood survey to test for pseudorabies
hours and will include
samples from both market
and breeding animals,”
Downard said The survey
began December 1 and will
end February 15
Pseudorabies also
known as Aujeski’s disease
and “mad itch” in a virus
disease primarily affecting
swine Losses are highest in
young pigs It can also
spread to cattle, sheep, dogs,
cats and some wild animals,
where it is almost always
fatal
Infected swine are
believed to be the mam
reservoir of the disease,
Downard said It does not
affect humans
The survey results, in
addition to establishing
disease prevalence, will be
used in estimating what the
disease costs the swine in
dustry This information is
vital to guide producers and
state-federal animal health
officials in formulating
programs for the control and
eradication of pseudorabies
Data obtained from swine
mailing lists used to send
farmers their census report
forms The second was a
door-to-door canvass of
sample households in rural
areas
The results of this direct
enumeration, when com
bined with the count by mail,
allowed the Bureau to
identify additional farms in
the State which would have
been missed under
procedures used in the 1959
and 1974 censuses
The Bureau estimates that
the direct enumeration
sample added 221,000 farms
(averaging 69 acres and with
average sales of $4,911) to
the 1978 mail census totals
Although characteristics of
the additional farms are
tabulated in the report for
the U S and the States, they
are not included in the totals
published for each county
Had 1978 procedures been
used in the last previous
census (1974), Bureau of
ficials estimate that between
300,000 and 318,000 smaller
farms would have been
added to the 1974 U S total
The estimated total would
have been between 2,614,000
and 2,632,000 farms in 1974
instead of the 2,314,000
enumerated under the
procedure actually used
A detailed description of
the 1978 Census of
Ag'iculture program
compared with earlier
censuses is available from
the Agriculture Division,
Bureau of the Census,
Washington, D C 20233
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