Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-05-11
AREA TEST IS
ON THE WAY
Pine County Cattle to Get
T. B. Test at Greatly
Reduced Price.
Testing Will be Started as
Soon as Arrangements
are Completed.

A problem that has confronted Pine
county dairymen and taxpayers the
past four or five years came much
nearer solution when definite action
was taken at the meeting of the
county commissioners Tuesday and
Wednesday for county test of all the
cattle for tuberculosis. The county
T. B. test is commonly called the
area test.
DIR. Chas. K. Cotton, secretary OF
the State Livestock Sanitary Board.
was up from st. Paul Tuesday and
entered into the agreement with the
county board. The cost to Pine county
will be but $4,000 for the test and
in addition to that the county is to
pay for transportation and assistance
to the veterinarians. This expense
to the county for the area test which
includes all tests and retests until
the county is accredited, is far cry
from the much heralded $4,000 to
$4,000 that it would have cost the
county a year or two ago If the test
had been made at that time.
County Gets Bargain.
The county commissioners through
the county attorney. M. B. Hurley,
the county auditor, Andrew P. Edin,
and Pine county's representative in
the Legislature co-Operated to get the
best kind of deal it was possible
for them to get for Pine county and
the $4,000 cash outlay instead OF
many more thousands was the result.
A large indemnity fund of the State
Livestock Sanitary Board will be
used for area testing. Pine county
has also dropped the suit which was
which involved the Sanitary Board.
The pending action in court, the cost
of the test had it been made last
year or the year before, and the poll
tics thrown in for good measure all
combined to excite citizens to some
extent at that time, but now that the
test will be had at small expense, all
dairymen are delighted and there ap-
pears to be no complaint from any
quarters.
Records are already being made at
the court house of the number of
herds in each township and the num-
I Der of cattle in each herd. The test
will be made as soon as arrangements
are completed which will likely be
within a few weeks. A committee OF
five farmers was selected to work to-
gether with the State Livestock San
itary Board in an advisory capacity.
They are Jack Connaker, Pine town.
ship; Richard Downing, Royalton;
Alva Gay, Arlone; Andrew ]. Larsen
Norman; and Ed Armstrong, Kerrick
Got Cold Cash for Land.
Other actions taken by the county
commissioners at their meeting in
cluded the selling of the Bruckbauer
farm of 90 acres in Hinckley town
ship. to Mrs. Laura Martin of Hinck-
ley, for S1,OS9 in cash. The former
owner of the farm, Mr.. Bruckbauer
who decided the farm to the county
has been at the large county farm
east of Hinckley, since last winter
The petition for the dissolution OF
Belden township was laid over for g
later meeting. The petition of Emf
F. Behrendt asking to have his lands
set off from school district No. 3
the Pine City district, to No. AZ was
denied. The board also received anG
acted upon several applications fol
beer licenses.
Engineer H. V. Jorgensen was in
structed to make survey and plan:
for the cutting down of the Shuey
hill about 10 miles east of Pine City
on state aid road No. Is, and which
leads to the ferry over st. Croix river
The county received $4,000 from the
State Allotment Board for this pro
ject. The money comes out of ga:
taxes and is in addition to the reg
ular allotment for the county.
Other routine matters were at
tended to by the board, all of which
will appear later in the official pro
ceedings.