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.
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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.
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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
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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