The Monmouth inquirer., 1922-05-11
Preston of Princeton. representing
New Jersey.
Farmers to Boycott Rails

dairy farmers at Pemberton. Wrights-
town and other important shipping sta
tions have announced the substitution
OF motor trucks for the transportation
Of milk to Philadelphia markets. Dairy
farmers claim it would mean starting
work at between and o'clock every
morning during the summer to get the
cows MIXED and the milk cooled and
at station by 3 o'clock. standard time
Chief protests against the new time
have come from the dairy farmers In
Central Jersey, yet practically every
town in the rural sections OF the state
has adopted daylight saving schedules.
Most of the farms, however, will con-
tinue to operate on standard time, and
many farm families announce they will
recognize no other time in their bust,
ness and social affairs.
See New Fight
This promises to cause much con-
fusion in dealings between town and
country during the next few months.
Indications point to strengthening
this year of daylight saving sentiment
in all cities and towns of Central Jer-
sey, which is met by corresponding
determination of the farmers to stick
to sun rule.
Railroad men say they were helpless
In the situation, as daylight schedules
for trains operating into New York
and Philadelphia made it necessary to
push the schedules an hour ahead on
the branches connecting with these
lines. A fresh complication for the
farmers has arisen in the refusal of
some metropolitan dairies to accept
milk shipped on the early schedule.
either by train o. truck. City dis
tribut0rs claim the later delivery at
their plants would delay passing the
milk among the consumers. who de-
mand their supply on daylight saving
time.
Freeing Herds of tuberculosis I
Since the time when dairy farming
became an intensive business and
dairy cows have been housed in closed
barns to protect them from the cold
winter weather, bovine tuberculosis
has been on the increase and has been
responsible for heavy losses among
dairy cattle, says Paul Bennetch. chair
man of the tuberculosis Eradication
Committee, Mercer County Holstein
Friesian Association. He adds:
Years of work by federal and state
agricultural departments have shown
that the disease exists among 20 30
per cent OF our dairy cattle and that
it is a germ disease which can be con-
trolled and eradicated. The problem
Of eradication of this disease from our
herds of dairy cattle is important be-
cause of the losses incurred in diseased
herds, many cattle dying from the dis
ease annually, and others producing
much reduced quantities of milk be-
cause of their diseased condition. It
has also been conclusively proven that
bovine tuberculosis is transmissible
through raw milk supplies from dis
eased herds to infants and children
under Sixteen years of age. For this
reason many municipalities in this and
other states require that all milk sup
plies shall either be pasteurized to de-
stroy the tubercular germs. or that all
raw milk supplies must be produced
by herds which are at least annually
tested and all diseased cows removed
from the herd.
All tuberculosis eradication work
is based upon the foregoing reasons,
and because of the public benefits de-
rived from such eradication the state
and federal governments are annually
appropriating large sums of money to
assist dairymen in freeing their herds
of this disease. Such eradication Is
made possible by the tuberculin test
the means of detecting the disease
devised in 1882 by the eminent sci
enlist, DR.. Robert Koch. The test has
been tried in large numbers of herds
and found to be effectual and practica-
Bile. The federal government few
years ago passed law requiring that
all cattle excepting those for immedl-
ate slaughter sh: ..ped in Interstate
traffic must be tested by approved
veterinarians, and this is strictly en-
forced.
During the past few years the work
of eradication has made rapid prog
ress, particularly among herds of
breeding cattle by the adoption Of the
Federal Accredited Herd plan, under
which the federal and state govern
ments cooperate. Herds are tested
regularly, usually every six months,
by state or federal veterinarians and
strict sanitary precautions are taken
to keep the disease out of herds. This
| work has made rapid progress. par
ticularly in the middle west, where en-
tire counties have been entirely freed
of the disease by testing all herds.
Work in Mercer
In New Jersey upwards of 300 herds
are now under state and federal super
vision for tuberculosis eradication.
| Somerset county rankingafirst with 90
! herds under supervision ana seven
herds fully accredited or having passed
| three successive clean tests. Hunter
don comes next with Al herds under
supervision and 13 accredited herds,
and Morcor stands fourth with %