American Agriculturist, October 6,1923 
237 
TB Program Adopted 
I N order to find and agree upon some program 
most acceptable to the farmers of the State 
for getting rid of bovine tuberculosis, the 
New York . State Farm Bureau Federation at 
its last annual meeting appointed a committee 
to cooperate with the Department of Farms 
and Markets and the Farm Bureaus of the 
State. This committee consisted of E. R. Zim¬ 
mer, Secretary of the New York Holstein Asso¬ 
ciation ; L. A. Toan, President of the New 
York State Guernsey Breeders’ Association; 
M. E. BuckldV, of the Lincoln School of Agri¬ 
culture; Jay Coryell, State Director of New 
York Farm Bureaus; arid H. E. Babcock of 
Ithaca, N. Y. Following the untimely death 
of Mr. Zimmer, M. C, Bond, who succeeded him 
as secretary of the State Holstein Association, 
was appointed in his place. The committee 
organized by choosing H. E. Babcock as chair¬ 
man and Jay Coryell as secretary. 
This committee held many all-day meetings 
and made an exhaustive study of the whole 
situation. As a result of the information 
which it obtained, the committee made its re¬ 
port to the Farm Bureau Federation, which 
accepted it, and then brought it before the New 
York Conference Board of Farm Organizations. 
This body, after making two or three amend¬ 
ments, accepted the report and recommended 
it as a future program upon which all forces 
in the State should unite to eradicate TB. 
The committee’s report, as it was finally 
adopted by the farm organizations, is given on 
this page. It is worthy of careful study by 
every dairyman, because it will vitally affect 
the interests of ^very man who keeps, cows.— 
The Editors. 
The fundamental reason for eradi¬ 
cating tuberculosis lies in the menace 
of the disease to the health of the gen¬ 
eral public, particularly to the health 
of young children. The committee also 
believes that it will be of economic ad¬ 
vantage to farmers to eradicate tuber¬ 
culosis from their herds, thus reduc¬ 
ing the losses from death and lowered 
production which its ravages undoubt¬ 
edly cause. Since both will benefit 
thereby in the long run the committee 
feels that both the general public and 
the cattle owner should share in the 
expense of eradication. 
Ignorance, the committee believes, is 
the chief limiting factor in eradicating 
bovine tuberculosis. Cattle owners who 
do not understand the nature of bovine 
tuberculosis cannot successfully combat 
it. The committee, therefore, earnest¬ 
ly recommends that the State Depart¬ 
ment of Farms and Markets and the 
New York State College of Agriculture 
combine on an educational program to 
help farmers to understand and com¬ 
bat the disease successfully. 
Inability to secure clean replace¬ 
ments for cattle eliminated from herds 
as the results of tuberculin tests, tiie 
committee believes, also handicaps the 
eradication of the disease. It there¬ 
fore recommends that County Ac¬ 
credited Herd Associations, in coopera¬ 
tion with the State and Federal of¬ 
ficials, administering eradication work, 
draft requirements for a system of 
dealers in clean cattle; that they re¬ 
ceive and pass on applications from men 
who desire to meet these requirements; 
that they give publicity to a list of 
such dealers; and that indemnities be ' 
paid on the animals which react either 
in the dealers’ hands or after addition 
to herds to which they are sold. 
Indemnities as now established by 
State and Federal legislation and reg¬ 
ulations, the committee feels, are not 
too high to give reasonable indemni¬ 
fication to the owners of the better 
grade of dairy cattle; in many in¬ 
stances, they are not high enough. The 
whole matter of indemnifications can be 
regulated by appraisals. The commit¬ 
tee recommends that indemnities be left 
at their present figures. 
The committee found considerable 
confusion arising from the present 
joint administration of the Accredited 
Herd plan by both State and Federal 
officials, and in at least one instance 
there was a direct conflict in ruling. 
It recommends, therefore, that the ad¬ 
ministration of the Accredited Herd 
plan in New York State and of all 
bovine tuberculosis eradication work in 
which the Federal Government shares, 
be centered by agreement in the person 
of the New York State Commissioner 
of Farms and Markets and by him, if 
desirable, delegated to such other New 
i York State official as he may designate 
and for whom he accepts full and 
complete responsibility. 
The committee also recommends that 
cattle owners desiring to cooperate 
with the State and Federal authori¬ 
ties in eradicating tuberculosis, group 
themselves into County Accredited 
Herd Associations; that they make as a 
requirement to membership in these as¬ 
sociations the signing of the Ac¬ 
credited Herd agreement; and that they 
select where feasible as officers and 
directors, owners of accredited herds. 
The local administration of tuber¬ 
culosis eradication, whether under the 
Accredited Herd agreement or not, the 
committee believes, should be a mat¬ 
ter of joint agreement between the 
directors of County Accredited Herd 
Associations and a single official repre¬ 
senting both the State and Federal 
governments. 
The question of whether or not cat¬ 
tle owners pay for their tests or re¬ 
ceive the same free engaged the com¬ 
mittee’s attention for some time. These 
conclusions were finally reached: That 
there should be no free initial tests 
given by State or Federal veterinari¬ 
ans as such; that the function of the 
State and Federal veterinarians is to 
supervise eradication work; that 
whether or not the testing within a 
county should be paid for by cattle 
owners or by supervisor’s appropria¬ 
tion should be determined by local pub¬ 
lic sentiment and the ability of the 
County Accredited Herd Associations 
to secure the necessary appropriation. 
All members of the committee ques¬ 
tion the permanency of any system of 
free testing and believe that cattle 
owners who pay for their test will give 
more attention to the necessary steps 
beyond testing, which are required to 
eradicate tuberculosis. 
The committee favors the develop¬ 
ment of clean township or county areas 
as the ideal toward which tuberculosis 
eradication work should be directed. It 
will be possible to police such areas 
and keep them clean. Procedure in 
realizing the ideal of the clean area 
should be always a matter of joint 
agreement between County Accredited 
Herd officials and the officer represent¬ 
ing the State and Federal Governments. 
F'unds appropriated for tuberculosis 
eradication woi’k, the committee be¬ 
lieves, should be allocated to counties 
on the basis of cattle enumeration to 
be spent under the joint direction of 
County Accredited Herd Associations 
and the single official representing the 
State and Federal Government. Be¬ 
cause, many_ counties will not use up 
their allocation on account of lack of 
interest in the work or freedom from 
the disease, the committee believes 
funds should be reallocated periodically. 
The committee recommends that the 
chairman of the Agricultural Confer¬ 
ence Board call a conference of the 
presidents of County Accredited Asso¬ 
ciations to be held in connection with 
the National Dairy Show to form a 
State body to represent the various 
county associations. 
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