The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-07-12
IS Counties LEFT
FOR CATTLE TESTS
VETERINARIANS SAY
Annual Report Of Committee Of
Their Medical Society Re-
views Disease Watch
HOG CHOLERA SPREADING
Importation OF Infected Swine
Cause Of One Outbreak; In
lection Is Carried Home

The states campaign OF tuberculosis
testing among cattle during the de-
partmental year extended to 1929
herds comprising 324,483 head, and
2,l6l reactors were revealed. according
to the report of the committee on
disease Of the North Dakota Veter-
inarians Medical association-W. D.
Odou. J. G. Jirikowic, and DR.. w. D.
Crewe, state veterinarian. Of this city.
Since the first test vas made in an
attempt to clear the state OF bo-
vine tuberculosis. 1898, 467 tests have
keen made and 81 .67l reactors found
among these. The state has 6S.179
herds under supervision. comprising
1.0e3,23 cattle.
Four Counties Added
Four counties have been added to
the accredited area. which. in a few
years, will cover the entire state
these being Trail, Mclean, Mountrail
and Griggs-giving a total OF 80
counties In the accredited belt.
Six counties in which three years
accreditation had expired have been
retested and r~eaccredited. All the
cattle In seven other counties have
been tested and will be accredited
on the completion of the retesting of
the infected herds. These counties
are Divide, Williams, McHenry. Pierce,
Sheridan, Burleigh, and Morton. Five
more counties are being organized and
will be ready for testing this fall
Emmons. Logan, Mcintosh, Oliver,
and Grant.
Fifteen counties are left In the state
to test. After the completion of the
testing Of those, says the report, the
entire state will have been placed in
the modified accredited tuberculosis
free list.
1851 Herds Now Accredited
Up to this time the tests have
established 1851 accredited herds,
comprising 104. 200 cattle.
In the retesting in the six counties
named only liz reactors were found.
The original test was made on l42 $50
head. which showed l,4l0 reactors.
Almost the same number of cattle
were retested.
The report notes another outbreak
Of glanders In the horses Of the state.
The disease showed up among animals
used In the state road construction
work, and 81 head Of these had to be
destroyed In combating the spread Of
the c~ontagion. Three isolated cases
40 were uncovered. running to 40
the total Of horses slain In suppress
ing the disease. Thirty-four horses
were destroyed last year as the re-
suit Of glAnders appearing.
Fight Source OF Undulent Fever
At present the livestock sanitary
board Is giving thought to abortion
disease In cattle. This affliction in
cattle has been shown to have a re-
lation to undulent fever in humans
when milk of such cattle is used un-
pasteuri1ed. This relationship has
been established by the discovery that
undulent fever in man Is caused by
bruciola malatensis, which Is identi-
cally the same as the bacillus abortus
Of Bang. Three cases of undulent fe-
yer were discovered in the state dur
ing the year by the agglutinization
test for bruciola malatensis.
The department has very little
money to devote to any campaign
against this disease In cattle, says the
report, and owners Of herds so af-
n! ted will for the present have to
depend largely on practicing veter-
inarians. As far as possible the de-