Smyrna times., 1927-07-06
DELAWARE MILK SUPPLY FAST
BECOMING BETTER AND SAFER
HEALTH BOARD SHOWS EVERY
SAFE GUARD IS EMPLOYED
Plan of Modified Accredited Areas is
Growing in Popularity in All the
States-Delaware is Active

For the first time in the history of
the State Board of Agriculture, the
demand from dairies in the State to
have their herds tested and tubercu-
lin tainted cattle eliminated, has
reached such a stage that within four
months the appropriation for the re
tiring year will be expended if all the
calls aHe attended to. What the State
Board has in mind according to its
meeting of last Wednesday is the
eventful establishment of modified ac-
credited areas. In other words in
stead Of testing a herd here and there,
throughout the State, it is planned to
make beginning at Nassau. This is
the milk station that receives milk
from farmers about Lewes, George
town and Milton. 1t is the one sec
ton in the State that appears to be
free from tuberculosis in cows owing
to the tests made, than any other sec
ton. For that reason if the farmers
will cooperate with the State Board
and they appear to be anxious to do
SO, there will be a certain area or zone
set aside which will form the nucleus
for other accredited zones and where
every milk COW will be free from tu-
berculine taint
One of the inducements for the
farmers cooperating with the State
Board Of Agriculture is the fact that
the milk cooling stations company at
Nassau pays them 10 cents a hundred
pounds more for their milk if it comes
from tuberculine tested cows. The
large dairies in Philadelphia that re-
ceive the milk from Nassau, have
been constantly urging officials of the
State Board of Agriculture to push
the work Of testing herds for tuber-
culine taint.
This idea of establishing modified
accredited areas was the keynote of
the three days program of the Eighth
Annual Eastern States tuberculosis
Conference and the Forty-seventh
Semi-Annual meeting of the New Jer-
sey Veterinary Medical Association
held at the Hotel Chelsea, Atlantic
City on Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday Of last week.
Former Senator Oliver X. Newton,
president Of the State Board Of Ag-
ruculture, and Ralph E. Wilson, sec
retary of the board, with the four field
agents Of Delaware, all of whom are
veterinarians who are ]. R. Porteus, j.
F. Creedon, E. a. Birmingham and r.
n. Sarvs, attended the convention.
Immediately upon return to Dover
Oh Wednesday evening the State Board
Of Agriculture met and made tentative
plans to establish a modified accredit-
ed area in Delaware.
At the Atlantic City convention a
famous New York physician connected
with Child's hygiene, electrified the
convention by the statement that dirt
was dirt, no matter whether it was
boiled OF raw and that New York City
was 50 strongly in favor Of certified
herds that if it was possible to obtain
milk sufficient to supply that biggest
city in America with certified milk,
there would be no question whatever
about its use. The only trouble is
that there are not sufficient certified
herds serving New York with milk to
make this possible, he said.
In this connection what Delaware
has done in the way of testing cattle
in the seven years of its progress in
this line, is interesting. The lower
part of the State was the first field
for testing of cattle, and as a result
the cows of Sussex county have the
lowest percentage of tuberculin taint
of any in Delaware.
According to official records of the
State Board of Agriculture, Sussex
county cows, have but 2.5 per cent of
reactors out of every 100. As COM
pared with this Kent county have 8
per cent and New Castle 13 per cent.
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