Jersey County Farm Adviser C. T. Kibler and lAA Director of Veterinary Medicai Relations Don Van Heuweling question farmers re- 

 garding their experience witli calfliood vaccination for Bang's disease. Left: seated, Kibler and Ray Pearce. Standing is Von 

 Houweling. Center: Kibler and L. F. Nail. Right: Otto Heidemann, E. A. Heidemann, Van ilouweiing, and Kibler. 





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also was due chiefly to the enthusiastic 

 attitude of the dairymen, the Jersey 

 County Farm Bureau, and the full coop- 

 eration of Farm Adviser C. T. Kibler. 



We followed Dr. John E. DeGimp, 

 the federal veterinarian, as he went about 

 his routine vaccination work on Jersey 

 county farms. Most of the farmers in 

 the county have come to accept calfhood 

 vaccination for Bang's disease as com- 

 monplace, he said. 



Dr. DeCamp said that during the 10 

 years (1935-45) he worked in Missouri 

 on the test and slaughter method of 

 Bang's disease control, he decided it 

 wasn't practical there and it wasn't prac- 

 tical anywhere unless it could be kept up. 



The calfhood vaccination program in 

 Jersey county is made availdsle to any 

 farmer at no cost to him. The vaccina- 

 tion is also available in any other part 

 of Illinois without cost to the farmer. 



After five years of the calfhood vacci- 

 nation program in Jersey county covering 

 almost 100 per cent of the breeding 

 stock in the county, what do the farmers 

 think of it.' 



Visiting representative farms across 

 the county, we were unable to find one 

 farmer who was willing to go on record 

 as being opposed to calfhood vaccination. 



Ray Pearce: "If vaccination was just 

 75 per cent effective you would still be 

 away ahead. As I see it, the man who 

 doesn't vaccinate is just plain ignorant. 



hen disinfects his feet before leaving one 

 farm to visit another. 



Back in the late twenties and early 

 thirties waves of abortions through my 

 herd had me on the ropes. I was ready 

 to sell out. My herd dropped to 30 

 head. Now as a result of the state and 

 federal calfhood vaccination program, I 

 never worry about finding an aborted 

 calf in the morning. Calfhood vaccina- 

 tion for Bang's disease has given me 100 

 per cent protection. My herd has in- 

 creased to 92 head." 



Earl Hannold: "I can't praise calf- 

 hood vaccination too highly. Prior to 

 the program in Jersey county, I had 14 

 cows that lost their calves in one year. 

 I was ready to try anything. Since the 

 start of the Bang's control program by 

 calfhood vaccination, I have had about 

 70 calves vaccinated. Not one of them 

 has lost a calf. 



Otlo Heidemann: "I think calfhood 

 vaccination should be made compulsory. 

 Before 1935 we averaged two or three 

 abortions from Bang's disease each year. 

 We .got pretty disgusted with it and my 

 brother George sent to Kansas City in 

 1935 for some vaccine which he injected 

 himself. Later we went in with the 

 program in the county. Today we have 

 40 head and haven't had an abortion 

 since we started vaccinating in 1935." 



Alviti A. Schroeder: "Several years 

 ago I had 24 head and all but four or 

 five had aborted. So in 1942 when I 

 went in with the vaccination program I 



had the calves bled and vaccinated. In 

 '43 we started losing calves from un- 

 vaccinated cows so we vaccinated every- 

 thing and quarantined the infected cows. 

 We have lost two or three calves from 

 vaccinated adults but we never have lost 

 a calf from an adult vaccinated in calf- 

 hood." 



Otto Schneider: "I have never had 

 any trouble with Bang's disease in my 

 Brown Swiss but I have gone along with 

 the vaccination program since 1942. I 

 think it is a good thing." 



L. F. Nails: "I began vaccinating in 

 1937 but was a bit skeptical of what it 

 might do. I have no doubts any more. 

 Since '37 every calf in my herd of 70 

 Guernseys has been vaccinated. I have 

 a clean herd." I vaccinated before the 

 government started the present program, 

 and if they quit the program now I 

 would go right on vaccinating myself. 

 When I buy replacements for my herd I 

 refuse to accept anything that isn't vac- 

 cinated." 



L. A. Landon: "Before vaccination 

 of my herd of about 45 Jerseys I had an 

 occasional Bang's abortion. Since 1940 

 I have vaccinated 75 calves. I haven't 

 lost a calf that way since. I'm sold on 

 the program 100 per cent. Fact is I 

 won't even bid on an animal unless it 

 is vaccinated. The most dangerous ani- 

 mal is the clean cow from a clean herd." 

 (Continued on page 21) 



Leaving behind healthier animals liice this one 

 owned by Juanita Fritz. 



Moving on. Dr. DeCamp arrives at another 

 looks 



