The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-07-31
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tuIS peClClOu, the COMMISSION Will
grant the $4,000 necessary for the
test. That is the official statement
they made to buttermen, creamery
operators, managers and officials,
who represented the cooperative
and private creamery organizations
at meeting held in the Stearns
county court house Wednesday af-
ternoon of last week.
After the county board approved
the circulation of petitions w. A.
Peck, Minnesota Livestock commits
sioner, who was the leading light
of the meeting, began the organi-
cation of a countrywide group
which will have petitions signed.
A. F. Naegeli, Albany, Charles M.
Bohlig, New Munich, and George
Baltes, Metre Grove, the original
committee of the drive, was re-
tanned. Four men in each town.
ship will be asked to cooperate and
make the canvas for the test, and
these selections are expected to be
made within few days. Another
meeting will be held at some CEN
traily located town in the county
for the committee and all cattle
men interested.
The meeting opened with Charles
Bohlig, who presided, expressing
the decision of the creamery man.
ayers and buttermakers to maintain
as nearly as possible the salable
value of Steafns county butter. He
turned the meeting to A. F. Nae
geli, secretary of the Albany Co
operative Creamery association,
himself a cattleman.
Interest at the meeting conferred
in the information given by Com
missioner Peck, of South st. Paul,
who has led the tuberculin test
movement in Minnesota.
The area test law makes it man
datory on the part of the Stearns
county commissioners, regardless
of the number of signers to refuse
the test. Under the test law, pass.
ed in 1928, At counties have become
accredited, and by the time the
state legislature meets the number
may increase to IS.
The sweeping tide of favor for
this test, stimulated by the CONNER
cial demands for T. B. tested but
ter, are expected to result in the
passage Of new law in the COM
ing legislature compelling the test
in all counties of the state. The
danger in the passage of this law,
and also in waiting for it's pas
sage, lies in the fact that there
may be no damages paid to farm
ers of their infected cattle. In
outlining the situation, Peck stat
ed that the limit now paid for COM
mon cattle was 500, for purebred
cattle, 5000. The loss to some farm
ers may be heavy if they are forced
to stand it alone.
Aside from this angle. Peck
stated that every time farmers in
this county received an average of
one cent less for butter annually, it
meant a loss of $4,000 to the
county. If this county is not listed
1t may result in slump of it's
price within the next year he said.
The government believes in this
test because it acknowledges that
an infected COW is a menace to pub
lie health. Refuting the rumors
that the tests made in the accred-
tied plan are not a sure means of
eliminating tuberculosis in cattle
herds, the speaker stated that the
testing is 80 per cent efficient. He
said that 90 per cent of the cattle
will reveal a lesion clear to the
naked eye.
The price of testing is approx
mately Is cents per head for each
test. All of the cattle in the county
will be tested in the first exami-
nations, and about rs per cent of
these will be held for a second
test. The third test will reveal
about IL per cent, and the other test
the same diminishing numbers. Two
tests are required of all cattle, with
three retests following to clear out
those animals found infected. The
tests are held at four-month inter-
walls, Peck said.
Nichols Thomey, Stearns county
auditor, when asked by Peck, stat
ed that the taxable value of the
county was slightly over $30,OOO,<
600. AT one mill this will give the
county $4,000 for the testing work
and over a two year period will
more than pay for the work. The
commission expects to work out this
problem as soon as the plans and
the declarations of the cattle own
ers are crystalized.
During the period of the test, no
cattle can come into the county
without being tested, a rule which
is ironclad when the test is conclud-
ed, according to Peck.
If we cannot get T. B. tested but
ter in Stearns county then we must
forget about our old and trusted
friends and secure it in other coun-
ties, was the remark Halph Howard
of the American Stores, who first
operated creamery at Holding
ford in 1908, made when he was
called upon to speak.
If it is your intention to ignore
the demands for this test, that is
your business. If your trade de-
mands it, however, then you must
comply with its desire or get out of
business, because eventually you
will have to do so anyway to make
way for the man who takes his OPP
portunity when it arrives was the
statement Howard made.
The American Stores. which are
concentrated in the commercial
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