Brucellosis progress reported WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Department of Agriculture animal health officials are encouraged by developments in the nationwide program to control and wipe out cattle brucellosis. The current total of 6,434 quarantined herds, reported at the end of December, is the lowest ever recorded, and down by more than 800 from a year earlier. PUBLIC AUCTION CHURCH PEWS, LIBRARY TABLES Bel Air Auction Galleries, Inc., 13 Ellendaie St., Bel Air Md. (1 Block from U.S. Rt. 1 & Md. Rt. 24 Rock Spring Rd.) SATURDAY, FEB. 25,1984 at 6:30 P.M. 28 - 8 ft. Solid-Natural - Oak - Church pews - light - all match, like new; 4 - rd. Oak and 6 oblong tables; 50 solid oak chairs; 2 Stieff bears; oil lamps; clocks; oriental rugs; Stieff silverware; Oak wash stand; Mahg. fire screen; china, glassware; crocks; R.S. Prussia Bow; 1880 Shot Gun; Japanese Gun; Presen tation Civil War Sword; German Steins; 60 pc. Lusterware Tea Set; 35 pc. Choc, set; Assort. Bells; Big Little Books; Grandma Moses prints; Salt & Petters; Old Books; Old China; Pitcher & Bowl set from Johnny Cash family; 2 pc. cut glass; Glass baskets. William St. Amoss Glenn Freeman 301-879-7272 PUBLIC AUCTION SATURDAY, MARCH 10,1984 Beginning at 9:00 A.M Mr. & Mrs. Sidney H. Heddings will sell a full line of good modern farm equip ment and personal property. Located 5 miles East of Milton, in Northumberland County on Route 254, known as Broadway Road. Use exit 32 off Route 80, then East 1 mile to the farm. 24 miles South of Williamsport. FARMALL TRACTORS & EQUIPMENT 1066 Turbo diesel, 3 pt.; 1026 Hydro-Static drive, 3 pt.; 574 tractor 3 pt.; 706 tractor 2 pt.; 424 tractor, wide front, 3 pt.; Super “M” tractor; #370, pickup disc; 560, 6 bot., 16” plows; #510,5 bot. 16” plows; 4 row Cultivators, 2 pt.; #4Ol, 16’ harrow; 7’ Mower; #56, 4 row Corn Planter; #5lO Single disc drill, 16x8; Gleaner K-Model, 12’ grain head, 2 row Corn head; NEW HOLLAND: #320 Hayliner baler w/#7O thrower; #489 Haybine; #258,4 bar rake; #3B Crop chopper; #L-425 Skid Steer Loader, 5’ bucket & Manure fork; 3 Bale wagons, 8 ton chassis; NEW IDEA; #244 Manure spreader, tandem axle; #324 Com picker; Twin fertilizer spreader; Brillion 16’ wheel harrow; 12’ Culti mulcher; Brady 11 Tooth chisel plow; J.D. #4OO Rotory hoe; Brady Stock chopper, 6 rows narrow or 4 rows wide; Welsh trailer sprayer 200 gal.; Coby dump wagon; E-Z Gravity wagons, 8 ton chassis; New Generator 1500 watts P.T.0.; 42’ Elevator with gas motor & clutch; 8’ Com drag w/Briggs motor; Cardinal 5” grain auger 40’ long; A.C. Blower; Air Compressor, 200 P. 5.1.; Lincoln Welder; Acetylene tank, truck & torch; 2 ton elec, chain hoist; Cement mixer w/motor; 2 Anvils; Battery charger and many other items of good farm related accessories. 9 A.M. selling household furnishings, followed by shop tools, then machinery. TERMS: Cash on the day of Auction or ap proved check by the seller. Good Lunch Available. MR. & MRS. SIDNEY H. HEDDINGS, Sellers Phone 742-8007 Milton, R.DJ2, Pa Randall L. Runyan R.DJ3, Milton, Phone 742-9274 and Paul R. Ranck King St., Turbotville, Phone 649-5706 Professional Auctioneers AU-000795-L Last year’s 0.37 percent infection rate in market cattle tested was down from 0.41 percent in 1982. The market cattle infection rate for the three-month period ending Jan. 1 was 0.28 percent, although usually a period of low incidence, down by a full tenth of one percent from the same period a year earlier. “Hard work is beginning to pay off,” said Bert Hawkins, administrator of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. “But I urge state-federal animal health officials and their livestock industry cooperators not to relax. “Brucellosis is an insidious disease. It has taken us 10 to 12 years to recover from a resurgence of infection that occurred in the early 1970’5. We don’t want to be in that position again,” Hawkins said. Fifteen states and the U.S. Virgin Islands are classified brucellosis free, meaning no known infected herds for a year or longer. Five states have been added since a new, tougher rating system began in May 1982. The free states are: Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michi gan, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah and Vermont. SADDLE UP! To Better Equipment... Find It In Lancaster Farming's CLASSIFIEDS! PRY (Continued from Page Al 2) what hogs entering are infected or exposed to the pseudorabies virus. So many of our trucks go right back to the farm within the same day and transport another group of hogs without cleaning or disin fecting. We, as the industry of this Commonwealth, need to look at this situation. Policies might need to be formulated for all custom haulers to clean and disinfect between shipments of animals to the market place. This would stop that possible transmission of pseudorabies. Third, we, as the industry of this Commonwealth, need to know more about Pseudorabies and the present pilot program as instituted in Pennsylvania. The pamphlet, referred to earlier from the Livestock Conservation Institute, is an excellent source of material that could be distributed in our market receipts from our auction markets and slaughtering houses or from our extension offices and Pork Council mailings. With that could be the current pilot program of eradication in Pennsylvania. When an eradication program is in effect, the industry needs to know about it and in a simple and direct form. Sending it in market receipts is one of the most direct forms. Fourth, we come to the most difficult area in our present eradication program - no in demnity for depopulation, This I feel is unfair especially in farrow to-finish operations and breeder producing operations. I said this last July when this policy went into effect, but just as the rest of the FARM EQUIPMENT We want to thank everyone for coming out and supporting our 15th Open House at our Quakertown store. We are proud to have served you for the past 15 years and look onward to a strong future together. Once again, thank you. A A A 4 444 4 444 4444 4 TRACTORS COMBINES TILLAGE AC 7040 PS w/cab Gleaner N 5 w/15' floating grain & AC 2300 Disc Harrow-17' Hyd. 7090 PS* w/cab 630 corn heads Fold up AC 70000 w/cab Gleaner MKS w/13' grain & 630 AC 2300 Disc Harrow-15' Fold AC 220 D, excellent cond. corn £**J* lri , U ,R T AC 190XT D w/cab Gleaner F 2 Diesel w/cab, air, 13 JO 13 Transport Disc AC 185 D grain & 438 corn heads JO 11’Transport Disc WD4S Gleaner KKS w/cab, 10' grain & IHl3' Transport Disc ar WD 238 corn head, excellent! JDlO' Cultimulcher 1H460D Gleaner Cll w/13' grain & 438 AC 2000 SB Semi-mt. Plow Farmall 400 corn heads Oliver 6B Spring Trip Plow JD 4010 D w/PS Gleaner All w/cab & both heads AC 80 Series 4B Mounted, 3 pt. JD4OIO Gleaner All w/12'grain head Plow JD3OIOD Gleaner E w/cab & both heads Brady 10 Tooth Chisel Plow, jpgO JD 8820 w/950 hrs., cab, air & w/gauge wheels, like new!! in b beat, 15’ floating grain, 830 Vicon 14’ Power Harrow, demo! MFSOD corn heads, like NEW! Long 560 D, lo hrs. JD 55 Special w/cab, 12' grain & MM GlOOO D 330 corn heads Case 630 w/loader JD 55-12' grain & 338 corn MANURE SPREADERS JD 45 w/both heads (2)N1218,2658U FEED CARTS JD4S w/grain head (2) Nl 214,206 BU. (2) Weaverline 223 Elec. Feed MF 300 w/11' grain & 238 corn N 1213,176 BU. Cart. 24 Bu. heads NH 676,325 BU Weaverline 330 Elect. Feed IH3IS w/cab, grain Acorn heads NH 516,175 BU., 3 beater Cart, 308 U., A-l! NH 975 w/11' grain & 238 corn NH510,1608U. heads NH213,1408U. Nl Uni-System 702 w/717 com- Farmhand M 165,125 BU SNOWBLOWERS bine. 4-row corn head Badger 8N240,180 BU Bear Back Single Auger 7', 3 pt. Nl 767 Chopper w/702, 2-row NNJ65Jank only $1,575.00 corn bead & 761 Pick up (2) Hawk Bill 207 Tank Arps 6’ - 3 pt. only $475.00 Head victim speaks out industry, I did nothing about it to express my views to our lawmakers. I apologize for abandoning the few farms that were forced to depopulate at their own expense within the eight months as required in the eradication program. In checking with bankers about farrow-to finish operations that have depopulated previously, costs have run from $5OO to $lOOO a sow unit. Also, I think this is the only state in the United States that currently has this policy. The reason presently expressed in the current policy, depopulation without indemnity forced on quarantined farmers within 8 months, is so that the neighboring farmer will not also suffer the same serious economic losses that could come from the quarantined herd. That to me is putting the cart before the horse, or more im portantly pseudorabies before people. I recently read about a retired agricultural journalist and what he considered the most im portant policy he used writing articles: of all the things found on the farm, the most important are the people. Is not the farmer having pseudorabies as important as the neighboring farmer who does not? Let’s keep the horse pulling the cart. In retrospect, avian influenza has gone this direction and hog cholera has in the past. At the recent Keystone Pork Congress, an extension agent made this com ment, "Considering the size and density of our animal agriculture during the last decade on our farms and the disease problems Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 25,1984-A39 that it has created, governmental policies for eradication and depopulation might have to be redefined and follow a more consistent policy.” That is all I am suggesting in this policy of eradication by depopulation, some consistency in policy. I have suggested to our legislatures during the past few weeks a possible idea to provide indemnity for farrowing operations so that farmers depopulating would receive breeding value of sows and boars instead of salvage value as received at the market. In most cases this probably would be over one quarter of the losses received in the down-time of the depopulation program. This could be a start on the plan. I was en couraged when I heard a local legislator is considering a funding program in support of indemnity. In the above thoughts, I have tried to analyze this program of pseudorabies eradication in Pennsylvania, explain its weeknesses and suggest some changes and additions. From the stand-point of being a victim of its path, I am speaking out. Those of you who are reading this letter, from politicians to producers to consumers, I am challenging you to study the present policies, consider my suggestions as food for though and create some changes in the pseudorabies eradication program. I would like to see pseudorabies eradicated, but we need the tools to do it effectively without ruining producers in the process. Thank you for considering my thoughts. Mark F. Nestleroth RD 5, Manheim
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