The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-04-16
Executive Points Out
General Test Necessary
4,86S Herds, Total Of 101y070 Head
: of Cattle, Are Examined
Summary Of Work

3 DR.. Charles E.. Cotton, secretary
and executive officer to the Mime
sofa livestock sanitary board, dis
closed the preliminary results Of
the Stearns county tuberculin
cattle test in special letter to
The Times Journal.
DR.. Cotton's letter, written after
he studied the report made by DR..
J. M. Holzer, federal veterinarian
who conducted the test in this area
reveals that the percentage of in
lection in the county was LIT per
cent for the 101,070 head of cattle
tested. A total of 1,726 animals the
percentage of infection was not be-
low one per cent another test made
Of the infected herds, totaling 1865,
must be made within four months.
Here is DIR. Cotton's letter:
"It is impossible for us at this
time to furnish you with an abso-
lutte true report of the test as it
will take some weeks to compile a
true report. "s''.'
20 IT trust you understand that we
are testing in a number of counties
and, necessarily, our office person.
mel is limited. However, as soon as
the work can be completed we will
furnish the county auditor with a
true report Of the test, including
the names of the cattle owners,
their post office addresses, and
names of the townships, in which
herds reacting cattle were disclos-
ed, showing the number of grades
and purebred cattle that past salts
factory tests and the number of
such cattle that were condemned;
the records will also disclose a list
of the owners of cattle, by town.
ships in whose herds no reactors
were disclosed, and the total num-
Der of cattle, both pure bred and
grade, owned by such individual
farmers.
"A summary of the work obtain
ed from the daily reports of the
fifty-eight accredited veterinarians
who were employed to make the
test of your county, discloses there
were 1853 herds tested, containing
101, O70 cattle, of which LIPS ami
mails reacted, or a percentage Of
tuberculous cattle disclosed in this
test, of LIT per cent.
"It should be understood that as
the percentage disclosed was over
one per cent it will be necessary
for us to make another test of all
the cattle in your county after
one year had elaspd. During the
interim between the two annual
tests, and four months from the
date of this first test we will place
an organization in your county to
retest the 1865 herds in which reac-
ting cattle or animals giving sus-
picious reactions were disclosed on
the first retest of the infested
herds.
81 wish to take this opportunity
to express our appreciation of the
assistance extended to us by the
cattle ownrs of your county in the
successful completion of the work.
The test of all the herds in the
county was made without any seri-
Gus opposition on the part of the
cattle owners, and in the face of
the propaganda that has been cir
culated throughout your county
and which continues to be circulate
ed in various parts of this state,
by organizations who are con-
demning every progressive health
measure known to modern medi-
cine, we are very highly pleased
and gratified with the attitude Of
the people in your county.
1--WE also wish to express our
thanks to your paper for the as
sistance you have rendered in CIV
ing the publicity to the work prior
to the time the test was made
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