Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 26, DeMotte, Jasper County, 19 January 1933 — U. S. Is Keeping Tab on Tuberculosis Eradication [ARTICLE]

U. S. Is Keeping Tab on Tuberculosis Eradication

A summary of progress in eradicating tuberculosis from poultry is being issued monthly by the bureau of animal industry. United States Department of Agriculture. The summary includes the results of inspection of poultry flocks the 11 states doing systematic work in detecting and eradicating tuberculosis of poultry. These states are Illinois. Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. In addition there are reports for 10 other states in which veterinarians engaged in testing cattle for the disease also inspected poultry. The report includes the tabulated results of post-mortem examinations of flocks and fowls affected with tuberculosis, as shown by clinical test.--Wisconsin Agriculturist.