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Livestock men from Foim Bureaus In eight Midwest states met recently in Chicago at re- 

 quest of lAA to discuss uniform regulations governing shipment of feeder cattle and con- 

 trol of T.B. and Bang's disease In feeder cattle. Seated at left of table are: S. M. Powell, 

 Mich. Farm Bureau; C. F. Claric, Mich. Dep't of Agric; F. G. Ketner, Chicago Producers; 

 I. E. Parett, lAA; William Kasakaitas, Wis. FB; B. P. Pattison, Mich. FB. Seated at right 

 side of table: H. S. NIcol, Iowa FB; C. K. Whistler, Indiana FB; W. W. Fuqua, Missouri FB; 

 L. M. Larson and F. W. White, Minn. FB. 



AUTHORITY GIVES 

 OPINION ON BANGS 

 DISEASE CURES 



ALLEGED cures for bovine brucellosis 

 are being sold in Illinois despite state- 

 ments by the University of Illinois and 

 the U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry that 

 no known cure has as yet come to their 

 attention. 



Following is a statement by the chief 

 of the Bureau of Animal Industry, U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture: 



". . . . this subject (drug therapy of 

 bovine brucellosis) has been intensively 

 studied for the past several years by any 

 number of competent investigators, with- 

 out success. In addition to original work 

 along these lines, a great many check 

 tests have been carried out on alleged 

 cures for the disease; none of which have 

 proven out when subjected to properly 

 controlled investigation. 



"Bovine brucellosis is an unusual dis- 

 ease in many respects, and because of 

 its peculiar manifestation, lends itself 

 readily to misinterpretation of results 

 when conclusions are drawn from clin- 

 ical observations alone. The fact th^t 

 the characteristic act of abortion observed 

 in brucella-infested cattle usually occurs 

 only once, even though the individual 

 may remain infected, has probably ac- 

 counted for most of the support that al- 

 leged cures for the disease have received 

 in the past. It is so-called "remedies' 

 such as these that have confused a great 

 many livestock people and have tended 

 to hamper control eflForts based upon 

 scientifically sound methods." 



The lAA department of veterinary 

 medical relations concurs in the above 

 opinion. 



Holland Named Manager 

 Of AFBF Insurance Co. 



VERN E. HOLLAND, assistant man- 

 ager of Country Mutual Fire In- 

 surance Company, has been named 

 manager of the new 

 ^ American Agricul- 

 tural Insurance Com- 

 pany. 



Holland also has 

 served as actuary of 

 Country Fire, an 

 lAA affiliate for the 

 past seven years. The 

 American Agricul- 

 tural Insurance Com- 

 Eany is sponsored 

 y the American 

 Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration to provide reinsurance service for 

 Farm Bureau insurance companies. 



The new manager was reared in Iowa 

 and graduated from the University of 

 Iowa in 1925. He was actuary of the 

 Great Western Insurance Company be- 

 fore going to Chicago to work with the 

 First Trust Joint Stock Land Bank. 



Vern Holland 



HEARING HELD ON 

 ILLINOIS MILK 

 MARKETING ORDER 



A PUBLIC hearing to consider a fed- 

 eral milk marketing order for Rock- 

 ford and Freeport was held June. 2- 

 9 in Rockford. It is expected that 

 a federal milk marketing order will be 

 issued as a result of the hearing to be- 

 come effective sometime after December 

 of this year. 



The hearing was requested by the 

 Mid-West Dairymen's Company and the 

 Stephenson County Pure Milk Associa- 

 tion, bargaining associations for dairy- 

 men in that area. 



Under the proposed marketing pro- 

 gram minimum prices to producers 

 would be guaranteed at levels about the 

 same as those prevailing in the Chicago 

 market. 



The effect of the order would be to 

 establish classes of milk based upon its 

 use. Prices would be based on these 

 classes. A complete auditing program 

 would be established to insure producers 

 that their milk was paid for as directed 

 by the order. 



The hearing was conducted by Jack 

 W. Bain, representing the U.S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. Other representa- 

 tives from the USDA dairy branch in- 

 cluded Dr. Paul L. Miller, Karl Degan, 

 J. C. Kraus and Mary E. Poole. 



The Illinois Milk Producers Associa- 

 tion was represented by Judson P. Ma- 

 son, association secretary and director of 

 dairy marketing for the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association. 



The local milk bargaining associations 

 were represented by Martin Burns of 

 Chicago. The principle testimony was 

 introduced by William H. Klahn, man- 

 ager of the Rockford association, Robert 

 E. Miller, manager of the Stephenson 

 County Pure Milk Association, and Paul 

 Bainbridge and Lowell Coomber, form- 

 er presidents of the two milk producers 

 groups. 



Jud Mason, left, lAA 

 director of dairy mar- 

 keting, presents testi- 

 mony In behalf of 

 dairymen before Jack 

 W. Bain, center, pre- 

 siding officer, during 

 federal milk order 

 hearing 'In Rockford. 

 Roy Long, right, vice- 

 president of the 

 Stephenson County 

 Pure Milk Associa- 

 tion, Is seated In wit- 

 ness chair as court 

 reporter, foreground, 

 takes notes. 



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