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American Agriculturist, November 15, 1924 
T B in Columbia County 
How the Township Plan Is Stamping It Out 
O NE of the most By D. V. RIVENBURGH the committee felt 
interesting pieces that no plan should 
of work that has been done during the 
past summer under the lines of T. B. 
eradication, is that which has been accom¬ 
plished in Columbia County, N. Y., under 
the direction of the county T. B. com¬ 
mittee and the county farm bureau. This 
county is one of the first to finish a town¬ 
ship in the campaign since the beginning 
of the fiscal year of the State on July 1st. 
The success of the work being due in no 
small measure to the careful management 
that it has been fostered under, points 
clearly to what may be accomplished in 
strictly area work. 
Started Year Ago 
Early in the fall of 1923 there was a 
growing sentiment for an organization to 
take care of the T. B. tests, and at the re¬ 
quests of its community committees, the 
Farm Bureau took up the work as a part of 
its county program. At the annual meet¬ 
ing of the association, after an open dis¬ 
cussion of the work in other counties that 
were already organized and in line, a 
county committee of five members was 
appointed to study the problem from all 
angles with full authority to proceed 
as they saw fit. This committee met 
many times during the winter months 
together with the Executive Committee 
of the Farm Bureau, the County Agent, 
County Agents from adjoining counties 
who had had previous experience in the 
work, officials from the Bureau of Animal 
Industry of the State Department of 
Farms and Markets and others and stud- 
died the work in all of its many details. 
This preliminary work was invaluable and 
much of the results that have been 
achieved can be attributed to the thor¬ 
oughness of the knowledge of the work on 
the part of the committee and the work¬ 
ing out of policies from a county stand¬ 
point prior to the arising of a need for 
such policies. In short, the committee 
started out to profit by the mistakes of 
others and tried to foresee trouble and to 
prepare for it. 
On the first of April, although no defi¬ 
nite course had been decided upon, the 
Farm Bureau in cooperation with the 
T. B. committee secured the services of a 
former county agent who had had three 
years’ experience in organized effort to¬ 
ward the eradication of Bovine Tubercu¬ 
losis in another county similar in many 
respects to Columbia County as far as the 
cattle industry was concerned. This man 
had brought one county from an area in 
which there was no organized work to a 
condition where 90 per cent, of the cattle 
were under test. The Farm Bureau in 
assuming the responsibility of the assist¬ 
ant's salary, obtaining some help from the 
State College, believed that the value of 
the experienced assistant would offset the 
financial obligations incurred. 
How the Work Was Financed 
Up to this time there had been many 
different plans discussed for the carrying 
on of the work, especially as regards the 
financing of it. All forms of the fee sys¬ 
tem, and the county appropriation sys¬ 
tems were considered as well as combina¬ 
tions of these two plans. The members of 
be adopted as any general recommenda¬ 
tion simply on the merits of its success in 
other counties, but rather that a plan 
should be worked out if possible that 
would best serve the needs and the 
wishes of the county at large. 
However, the committee finally decided 
to lay the proposition for the work before 
the County Board of Supervisors and to 
ask for county, support with certain reser¬ 
vations. The chief of these was that no 
county office of County Veterinarian was 
to be created but rather an emergency 
appropriation was to be given to the Farm 
Bureau for expenditure in the county as 
they and the T. B. committee saw fit in an 
attempt to control Bovine Tuberculosis. 
This gave the control of the work to the 
best-fitted group to assume the responsi¬ 
bility and did not necessitate the creation 
of another county office. There is ample 
opportunity for outside elements to enter 
and to detract from the success of the 
project. The Board of Supervisors were 
favorably inclined towards the work and 
an appropriation was made to cover the 
period from July 1st 'until January 1st. 
75% Signed Up 
Immediately the results of the discus¬ 
sion of the project at the winter commu¬ 
nity meetings of the Farm Bureau were 
summarized and it was found that the 
major part of the response had come from 
two townships, Kinderhook and Stuyve- 
sant, in the extreme northern part of the 
county. Meetings were called in these 
townships by the township committees 
under direction of the Bureau and the 
matter of testing under the accredited 
herd plan was discussed at length. In 
each case a community committee was 
appointed and the list of cattle owners 
were divided up among the members of 
the committee. The men were provided 
with blanks and full information with the 
understanding that they were to see all 
men that were on their lists in a ten-day 
interval and were to report results back 
to the Bureau. In this way 75 per cent, 
of the cattle owners in the two towns 
were signed-up. The county committee 
immediately set about to find a suitable 
county veterinarian to carry on the work 
under their direction. With the assistant 
employed by the Farm Bureau who had 
been placed in charge of the work from the 
standpoint of the Bureau, a veterinarian 
was secured who had a very high record 
for efficiency and who had had four suc¬ 
cessive years’ experience in testing, during 
which time he had tested some 75,000 
head of stock. 
Work Progressed Rapidly 
The veterinarian started in on his work 
on July 14th and on September 1st had 116 
herds in the township of Kinderhook 
under test. There are 155 herds in this 
township and immediately after all of the 
applications that had been secured in the 
campaign had been attended to, a meeting 
of the committee of the township together 
with the Chairman of the County T. B. 
Committee and the report of the work 
was given at length. As the 116 herds 
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