Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-07-14
NErGHBoRs "a HERDS
Many Valuable Cattle I'm Shelby Co.
Are Condemned and Led to
the Slaughter.

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making wonderful progress. This is
made by the fact that the Farm Bur-
eau members throughout the coun-
try are taking hold Of the work with
the same energy that they are put
ting into all Farm Bureau affairs.
A lot Of energy has been put into
this because of the fact that tuber-
culosis in livestock as well as human
beings is so vitality important to ev-
cry person in Shelby county. In all
localities Farm Bureau members as
well as their officers are working
and boosting for thorough clean
up.
On July 5th, the famous film,
"Out of the Shadows" was shown in
Shelby county by DR.. D. F. Stouffer
OF the Bureau of Animal Industry,
United States Department of Agri-
culture. In the afternoon at Har-
Ian the Lyric theatre was practically
filled with an audience very much
Interested in the subject.
The pictures proved to be very in
teresting, telling the story of tuber-
culosis in cattle and the infection
from cattle to hogs and chickens, as
well as far worse infection Of chill
dren and larger people from milk
from tubercular cows. The film
also showed the simplicity of the
test and 1t showed how the State and
Federal government pays large
proportion of what would have been
the market value had it not been
diseased.
Between the showing of the two
reels, DR.. Stouffer talked for few
minutes explaining the new law that
permits city councils to require that
all milk that is sold within .he city
or town to be from cows that are
free from tuberculosis. Likewise he
explained that it is costing billions
of dollars each year to take care of
the tuberculosis patients in the Unit
ed States. The loss in livestock
amounts to a great many million
dollars Nine per cent of all the
cattle that go to market have tuber-
culosis. Twenty-three per cent of all
hogs that go to market have tuber-
culosis.
According to the assessors report
there are 3S,104 cattle in Shelby
county. Basing an estimate on the
average of per cent which is the
percentage of cattle that go to the
stock yards there would be total of
3,429 tuberculosis cattle in the
county. This would be sufficient to
fill III cars, or eight train loads.
Thus far the testing of cattle in
Shelby county has shown wide
variety of results. Four herds re-
ported show no tuberculosis. In an
other case, nineteen head out of
twenty-three on one farm reacted to
the test and were sent to the stock
yards subject to examination after
slaughter. All of them were found
to have tuberculosis and some of
them were in such severe form that
the entire carcasses were condemned
for human consumption and sold
for tankage or fertilizer. In one of
the pure bred herds of the county
where more than fifty head were
tested one Of the registered animals
and the family COW reacted. In still
another case six animals out of
about fifty were found to be dis
eased. There are no definite facts
available concerning tuberculosis in
hogs on farms in the county but it
is safe to say that there are thou
sands in the county that have it. In
ten flocks of chickens examined in
the county last spring tuberculosis
was found in eight of them.