08—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 16,1983 Hog disease alert (Continued from Page D 7) hen. A third of the 900 hogs in the Ohio herd had “died.” READEO team members assembled within 12 hours after the alert went out. Like volunteer firefighters, team members dropped work at their regular jobs and rushed to the scene. What did they do? Work begins Ric Backman was the ad ministrative officer for the team assembling in Omaha, Neb., to deal with the lowa “outbreak.” He set up the team's communication equipment and other gear in a meeting room of a local hotel and spent the rest of the week finding help, ordering supplies and filling the other needs of a group of 46 people suddenly thrown into a previously nonexistent work place. Michael Sinkevich - the ap praiser - belonged to the team that set up headquarters at a hotel in **'C 1983 - National Western Stock Show Bull Sale 1982- Keystone International Livestock Expo. New York State Fair West VA State Fair PA Farm Show 1981 - Eastern National Lvstk. Expo Keystone International Lvstk. Expo. $5O per unit or $lO per straw $5O certificates when needed FOR SALE 2 yr. old bulls & yearling bulls Weekdays: 215-398-0424 Nights: 215-767-1260 Dayton, Ohio. He made an in ventory of dead hogs, sick hogs and those exposed to rien. He ap praised their value on the basis of the current hog market, so state and federal governments could pay appropriate indemnities. Before the end of the test he had appraised nearly 4,000 animals - ranging from a $22,000 prize breeding boar to a $1 runt piglet. Ray Albrecht is an expert in mass burial. Don Castner is a specialist in cleaning and disinfection. He simulated directing the cleanup of buildings and equipment in Ohio after the pigs had been buried, and he advised the farmers involved how long to stay out of the swine business - at least four weeks. Beverly Childs operated a computer terminal for the team in lowa, linking them to all READEO operations nationwide. She classified the mountian of facts RDI Germansville PA 18053 PAI-RIC'S HENRY Grand Champion Angus Bull SEMEN gathered by her team, so the people at BEADED headquarters in Hyattsville, Md., could coor dinate the test exercise nation wide. How it got in How did the simulated virus get into the United Sates? One way was a farmer from Surry, Va., who acquired a boar’s head during a safari in Africa. Hunting trophies can be imported legally through certain ports if they are processed by an approved taxidermist. Through and imagined misunderstanding, this particular head arrived only partially processed at the Port of Baltimore as part of the hunter’s personal baggage. Check These Prices DIESEL FUEL * .94 9 * #2 HOME HEATING OIL * .94 9 * * Less 1 % For 10-Day Payment ★ Large Quantity Prices Quoted On Request ★ Quality Products At A Reasonable Price o\~iOHßk | - CALL YOUR NEAREST OFFICE - Richland 717-866-2105 Reading 215-376-7364 Middletown 717-561-2772 MtJoy 717-653-8026 Lebanon 717-272-2541 Lancaster 717-397-8244 New Holland 717-354-4136 York County 717-846-6596 Chester County 215-692-6919 A BALING m Krone Roun Baler A totally NEW con baling machinery Krone line of round baler: features an endless chain conveyor without belts. Closed chamber reduces problems associated with conventional belt type balers. Less horsepower required for the Krone Round Baler's fewer moving parts means great energy savings. Produces weather resistant bales with hard outer wrap and medium density core for better curing. Available in two models for bale diameters of five or six feet. CONTACT YOUR DEALER FOR MORE INFORMATION Distributed By: CUMMINGS & BRICKER, INC. The head escaped detection by agents of U.S. Customs and USDA agricultural quarantine. After the unmounted boar’s head arrived at the hunter’s home, he un suspectingly carried the deadly virus to his own swine herd. Two days later, he shipped some of his as - yet healthy looking stock to Ohio. The other entry by rien involved a farm family from Johnson, Neb., which, while on vacation in Spain, mailed locally processed hams as gifts to friends in the United States. According to the scenario, the family was unaware of federal restrictions and their gift hams passed undetected through the surveillance system set up at in- 100 Stover Drive temational post offices by the Customs Service and USDA. The shipment spoiled en route and the recipient in Shenandoah, lowa, tossed the spoiled meat into the garbage. His dogs pulled some of it out and carried it to his hogs. The READEO teams simulated all the activities involved in eliminating the virus from infected herds and tracing the spread of the infection, but in actuality they neither touched any pigs nor en tered any hog lots. Sources Found “By the end of the week, they had found the two sources of the infection posed by the test,” said Buisch. “They also had confirmed (Turn to Page D 9)
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