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Calf hood Vaccination
Increasingly Popular
The practice of calfhood yaccination to stamp out Bang’s disease (brucellosis) is still gaining in popularity with Virginia farmersR.
G. Connelly, dairy husbandman at V.P.I., says some 2,542 calves were vaccinated in August, the last month for which figures' are available; and that the money set aside by the state to pay for1 the.program is being used up rapidly.
The vaccination program ia sponsored by the state division of animal industry.
Connelly says the ideal way to control Bang’s disease is by test and slaughter combined with calf vaccination. The disease costs Virginia’s dairymen an enormous amount of money every year, he, says. The loss of calves through abortions immediately throws thq breeding and herd improvement * program Into 9 tailstoin. No dairyman keeps infected cows v$ry long without trouble from sterility and shy-breeding.
The disease slows down, and eventually will stall milk production. In addition to that, several people are stricken annually with undulant fever, caused by the “brucella abortus” organism 'which causes the disease.
'See your county agent about the details of the plan now in use to eliminate brucellosis.
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