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CALFHOOD VACCINATION 





lederol Veterinarian DeCamp receives cards 

 ■it Farm Bureau office of farmers requesting 

 Vaccination. Office girls are Adele Church 

 (left) and Dorothy Campbell. 



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DeCamp tells R. H. Voorhees their plans 

 the day as they leave the Farm Bureau 

 Iffice. Voorhees assists Dr. DeCamp with 

 the vaccinations. 



by JIM THOMSON 



Asst. Editor, lAA RECORD 



■ Rl: Illinois hirmtrs sold on the 



I benefits ()t c.ilfhooii vaccin.ition 



/■ for tile prevention of brucellosis, 



/_■ commonly known .i.s Banc's dis- 



n c.ise.> 



riufs wli.it Dr. C. D. V.in 

 Houweling, director of the lAA depart- 

 ment of veterinary medical relations, and 

 I decided to find out. Because there still 

 is doubt in the minds of some people 

 that vaccination of youns; breeding stock 

 (generally around six months old) i.s the 

 best preventive for Bang's disease. 



The most logical place to start cjues- 

 tioning farmers about Bang s disease is 

 in Jersey county in the St. Louis milk- 

 shed where they probably have h.ul closer 

 acciuaintance with Bang's disea.se control 

 programs than any other county. 



lersey's experience with vaccination 

 stretches back to the twenties when dis- 

 traught dairymen, willing to try any- 

 thing, used a virulent form of vaccine 

 Liter condemned as dangerous. 



Later Jersey enrolled many herds in 

 the federal government's blood test and 

 slaughter program, under wliich diseased 

 cattle were exterminated. But the cost 

 of this program due to animals lost as 

 reactors so discouraged the dairymen that 

 most ol them }:.i\(: it up. 



In search of something better. Dairy- 

 men Ray Pearce of Jerseyville and Larl 

 Hannold of BriL'hton enrolled in 1^36 



m an experimental vaccination program 

 conducted by the Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry. Both herds had over 1 5 per 

 cent infection. The gradual elimination 

 of the disease from their herds during 

 the experimental program pretty well 

 convinced Pearce and Hannold of the 

 effectiveness of vaccination. 



If there was any doubt in their minds, 

 it vanished during a succeeding county- 

 area vaccination program started in 1942 

 in Jersey county under the direction of 

 the Illinois Department of Agriculture 

 in cooperation with the Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry. L). S. Department of Agri- 

 culture and the Jersey County I'arm Bu- 

 reau. 



Jersey thus became the first county in 

 the state to come under the federal 

 county area Bang's disease vaccination 

 control program. Dr. T. K. Jones, vet- 

 erinary livestock inspector for the USDA, 

 said Jersey county was first at the sug- 

 gestion of Dr. LI. H. Seely, a local vet- 

 erinarian who saw the value in the pro- 

 gram. 1 he original impetus, he said. 



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>n his first stop. Dr. DeCamp is met by Har- 

 old V. Parsell. Below, DeCamp takes a blood 

 ?st recommended only for purebred calves. 



Dr. DeCamp inserts needle to vaccinate 

 calf. Helper at left is Horold Klump. 



He tattoos the ear as a permanent record. 

 At left is Owner Parsell. 



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