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“The regulations requiring testing of cattle at weekly auction markets is another ' step toward Brucellosis eradication. Extensive calf vaccination has progressed to die point that most of our herds now contain vaccinated animals in production. The time has come, we feel, to take the next step which* is to prevent the free and unrestricted sale of diseased or doubtful cows. Stopping this practice in the auction markets is part of it. Later on the sale or transfer of a cow from any person to another will be prohibited unless the animal is tested and clean. When you stop the spread of the disease by these methods then eliminating the residual infection should not be either a difficult or a costly process. This is simply one step in a plan and considered program.
Now to answer your questions. ^ 1. The regulations only require the testing of cows, not heifers. Any cow going hackdo the farm from stockyards will have to be tested.
2. I don’t know how to answer this question. I am interested in controlling the spread of Brucellosis by preventing the sale of untested cattle. I firmly believe that after this regulation has been enforced for a time that being able to buy a currently clean tested cow will attract buyers to the markets that up to now have shunned them. This should be reflected in increased value for these tested cattle. This has been the Experience of these markets where testing has been done regularly.
3. Positive reactors are taken out of any load and will be marketed for slaughter. Those passing the test even though in the some load will be sold as the seller wishes. I realize that this is not perfect solution but it is far better than no protection at all.
4. The plate test will only be recognized to release the cows for sale at the market where she is tested. It will have no recognition beyond this. We cold not permit the plate test to be made, a useful tool for the unscrupulous dealer and cow jockey.
5. I do not contemplate that the regulation wlil have much effect one way or another on the price of beef. I see no reason why it should. There is some difference between straight slaughter cows and reactor cows. This is inevitable and proper because •of the restrictions placed on the latter. Some abuses have been noted but the market managers and their patrons can straighten this out without difficulty.”
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