The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-06-29
AREA TB. TEST DATE
in CO. INDEFINITE
REDWOOD COUNTY BOARD WILL
CONSIDER MAKING NECES-
SARY APPROPRIATION AT
JULY MEETING.

Minnesota will spend $1,OOO,00O in
an effort to free its cattle herds
from tuberculosis in the next two
years, DR.. C. E. Cotton, secretary of
the state sanitary livestock board,
announces.
Work laid out for the period under
the area and general plans indicate
that the biennium starting July l
will be the most active in livestock
sanitation work seen since the state
opened war on tuberculosis among
cattle. More than half of the cattle
population of the state will be ac-
credited as free of the disease with
completion of the two-year program.
1t is expected that Redwood Coun-
ty will be among the early counties
to take up the work but the date is
indefinite as yet. 1t will depend up
on the action of the county commits
sioners at the July meeting. Last
year petitions were circulated among
the cattle owners requesting the area
test. The petitions were sponsored
by the county farm bureau: They
were signed by majority of the cat
tie owners and the county board took
favorable action in applying to the
state sanitary livestock board. The
request was put on lille and now that
sufficient state money will soon be
available DR.. Cotton of the state
board appeared before the Redwood
county board at the last meeting and
asked that body to appropriate suf-
ficient money to make the T. B. tests.
This sum will have to be sufficient to
cover three tests of all the cattle at
rs cents per head. This amounts to
more money than the county board
anticipated by DR.. Cotton explained
that considerably less money would
most likely be used, in view of the ex-
perience in other counties but that it
is necessary to make the full appro-
priation as matter of precaution be-
fore the area test is undertaken. The
board postponed action until the
semiannual meeting in July when the
tax levy for next year is arranged.
County Agent Lynn Sheldon, who has
been active in promoting the area
tuberculosis test, stated in answer
ing an inquiryof The Gazette that
the "eXact time is undetermined as
yet; possibly not until next spring."
Brown county is also interested it
is said and will also come in for early
consideration by the state livestock
sanitary board.
The $1,OOO,OO0 to be spent by Min
nesota represents legislative appro-
priations for general and area indem-
mites paid to cattle owners for the
loss of condemned cattle. In addi-
ton, Federal aid and county funds
raised by special levies, will help pay
the cost of raising the standard of
Minnesota herds, DR.. Cotton points
out.
The total number of cattle now ac-
now being tested and those
to be tested during the biennium on
the basis of estimates made by DIR.
Cotton's office is 1,353,710. Besides,
individual herds scattered through
he state have been tested with the
state providing indemnity for loss
IS.
Under the area test plan, county
boards are authorized to appropriate
md levy a tax on all taxable pro-
'erty to assist in the, expense of test
ng and carrying out quarantine reg
llations and to enter into the coop
,rative agreement with the state and
federal governments on petitions
igned by majority of cattle owners
within the county. The county pays
IS cents for each test or retest of in
lividual animals until the percentage
If tuberculosis cattle is reduced to
of l per cent, when expense
# the county ceases. Meanwhile,
tate and Federal governments pay
two-thirds of the diff
erence between the salvage of the
arcass and the appraised value. In
ounties which signed agreements
'rior to April 16, 1925, owners will
eceive from the state two-thirds and
he additional third from the FEEDER
i government
The maximum appraisal is $50 for
grade and $50 for a registered an
NAL. When the first complete test
f county is started, no female cat
lie or bulls can enter the county un-
ess they are tested or are from ac-