AlB-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 30,1985 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it will pay indemnity for cattle and swine destroyed because of brucellosis only if the animals are destroyed as part of a total herd depopulation or as part of an approved action plan to nd known infected herds of the disease. “This rule is necessary to help ensure that herd owners do not abuse the indemnity system by not, taking adequate measures to eradicate the disease from their infected herds,” said Bert W. Hawkins, administrator of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health In spection Service. As part of it’s cooperative national program to eradicate brucellosis, USDA requires owners NEW EQUIPMENT AT PRICES YOU CAN AFFORD I YOUR COWS DESERVE THE BEST NEWS SIMPLEX WATER BOWLS Available In Poly Or Cast Iron The Most Simple Bowl Available, Yet So Unique - We Give Free Estimates, Equipment As Sold We Work On And Rebuild Any Brand Of OVERSIZED USED DRIVE SPROCKETS Available for worn Patz Cham JOSEPH FISHER and SONS R D 4 YORK, PA 717-764-0494 "Christ died for our sms" John 3 16 MESSICK FARM EQUIPMENT, INC. s. . Rt. 283, Rheems Exit \ Elizabethtown, PA 17022 ZpirdL (717) 367-1319 V L / TOLL FREEIN PA: J 1 (800) 222-3373 Brucellosis payment rules revised by USDA of infected herds to develop herd action plans-a written agreement between the owner, a state or federal animal health official and, if requested, the owner’s veterinarian-specifying procedu res to rid the herds of the disease. Infected herds are quarantined and tested periodically to identify and remove animals that show signs of the disease. Hawkins said it is usually desirable to retest known infected herds at about 30- day intervals, but some flexibility is permitted under individual herd plans. Hawkins said herd action plans work to the owner’s advantage by assuring quicker, more effective results in eliminating disease from a herd and by shortening the quarantine period. NEW BARN CLEANERS and other manure handling equipment “Requiring a herd plan is only Brucellosis is an infectious reduced calf crops and lower milk fair to the great majority of bacterial disease of cattle, swine yields. The disease is only rarely livestock owners who want to rid other animals. Owners of transmitted from animals to their communities of this disease, ’ infected cattle herds can suffer humans. In humans, the disease is Hawkins said. serious economic losses from debilitating but treatable. BANK FEEDING EQUIPMENT Ventilation and Different Types of Stalls u FEMA E 5 Specializing In Daily Systems: • Tie Stall & Free Stall Complexes • Horse Stables & Riding Arenas • Machinery Sheds • Metal Buildings For Commercial Use NEED RENOVATIONS... DON’T DELAY- CALL TODAY INTERIOR WALLS LEAKING "LET MAR-ALLEN SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS" Keep Those Rodents Out In The Cold Where They Beloni Seal Up Your Deteriorated Block Or Stone Walls • Installation & Maintenance of Concrete Bunker Silos • Stone Wall Repairs • PreCast Gunite Lined Water or Manure Storage Tanks We're The “Concrete Specialists” MAR-ALLEN CONCRETE PRODUCTS, INC. Gunite Construction • Precast Concrete Products Bridge Repair • Tank Repair • Holding Tanks • Installation • Pre Qualified by Penn Dot AGRI-INC. FARM & COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS ■■■ RD 4, EPHRATA, PA 17522 Located In Farmersville PHONE (717) 354-4271 RODENT PROBLEMS So Please G'm Us A R O 2. Ephrata, PA 17522 (717) 859-4921 Subsidiary ot Seal-Crete Corp OR A NEW BUILDING? 2 • Dam, Reservoir & Spillway Repair • Slatted Floor Systems • Silo Repairs REYNOLDS ROOFING A SIDING WE CAN SEAL THOSE WALLS
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