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Jersey County Farm Adviser C. T. Kibler and lAA Director' of Veterinary Medical Relations Don Von Houweling question farmers re- 

 garding their experience writh calfhood vaccination for Bang's disease. Left; seated, Kibler and Roy Pearce. Standing is Van 

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



dlso was due (.liitfl\ to the enthusiastic 

 attitude ot the dairymen, the lersev 

 County Farm Bureau, and the full toop- 

 eration of Tarm Adviser C T. Kihier. 



We followed Dr. John F-. DeCamp. 

 the federal veterinarian, as he went about 

 liis routine vaccination work on Jersev 

 county farms. Most of the farmers in 

 the county have come to accept calfhood 

 vaccination tor Bant; s disease as com- 

 monplace, he said. 



Dr. DeCamp said that durm^ the Id 

 vears (1935-45) he worked in Missouri 

 on the te.st and slaughter method ol 

 Banc's disea.se control, he decided it 

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

 tical anywhere unless it could be kept up. 



The calfliood vaccination prot;ram in 

 Jersey county is made available to any 

 farmer at no cost to him. Ihe 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 

 ^tock in the county, what do the farmi-rs 

 think of it.' 



Visiting representative farms atross 

 the county, we were unable to find one 

 farmer who was willing to go on record 

 .IS being opposed to calfhood vaccination. 



Rj) Pcanc: "If vaccination was just 

 ~5 per cent effective you would still be 

 away ahead. As I see ii. the man who 

 doesn t vaccinate is ju--t plain ignorant. 



Back in the late twenties and early 

 thirties waves of abortions through m\ 

 herd had me on the ropes I was ready 

 to sell out. My herd dropped to .SO 

 head. Nov* as a result of the state and 

 federal calfhood vaccination program. I 

 never worry .ibout finding an aborted 

 talf 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. " 



E.vl Ha)u?fihl; "I can't praise calf- 

 hood vaccination too highly. Prior to 

 the program in Jersey county, I had It 

 tOws that lost their calves in one year. 

 1 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. 



Otto HtiJi'iii.iiiir. "I think lalfhood 

 vaccination should be made compulsorv. 

 Before 1935 we averaged two or three 

 abortions from Bang's disease each year. 

 \X'e got pretty disgusted with it and my 

 brother George sent to Kansas City in 

 IM35 for some vaccine which he injected 

 himself. Later we went in with the 

 program in the county, lodav we have 

 -to head and haven't had an abortion 

 since we started v.Kcinating in 1935." 



Alihi A. Schr'ieJtr: "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 

 Is We started losing calves from un- 

 vaccm.iled cows sO vve vaccinated every- 

 thing and cjuarantined the infected cows. 

 W'e have lost two or three calves from 

 V. ICC mated adults but we never have lost 

 a calf Irom an adult vaccinated in calf- 

 hood. " 



(^)tt" S, ■iic-aJcr: l have never had 

 any trouble with Bang's disease in my 

 Brown Sw iss but I have gone along v*ith 

 the vaccination program since 19J2. 1 

 think it is a good thing." 



/. /. Sjilr. I began vaccinating in 

 IVS~ but was a bit skeptical of what it 

 might do. I have no doubts any more. 

 Since '3~ every calf in my herd of ~0 

 Guernseys has been vaccinated. I havx- 

 a clean herd I vaccinated before the 

 government started the present program 

 and if they cjuit the program now I 

 would go right on vaccinating myself. 

 When I buy replacements for mv herd I 

 refuse t(j accept anything that isn't vac- 

 cinated " 



/,. .r l^!iiJ"n: Before vaccination 

 of my herd of about -15 Jerseys i had an 

 Occasional Bangs alx)rtion. Since iMiO 

 I have vaccinated 7^ 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 vaic mated. The most dangerous ani- 

 mal IS the clean cow from a clean herd ' 



^en disinfects his feet before leoving one 

 farm to visit another. 



Leaving behind healthier animals like this one Moving on. Dr. DeCamp arrives at another 



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owned by Juanita Fritz. 



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farm; looks over the farmer's records. 



