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Bangs testing program goj into full swing May ,19th commencing with the O. B. Swindler h<rd in Piedmont Dis* .trict. As of I June 13th a total of j. 273 herds have been tested with work underlay in all magisterial ‘districts. Hampton district leads jwith 1(XKherds having been tested. Herd tests >y other districts arc: Piedmont _ _ 63,, Wakefied 19,. Hawthorne 33, Stonewall 46 and Jackson 12 •
These hei ds do pot include herds tested January 1, 1957 to May 18th 1957 which represented a majority o: the large beef and dairy fUfrds and approximately 65% of {he total, population.
Work an Piedmont, Hawthorhe', Hamptoi\ and Stonewall districts •-has been (completed with exception of a fewest attered herds the majority of/which will have been tested by today .*
Consicjeii ig the farm work such •as: corniplanting and cultivation, spraying fruit trees, and haymaking, which; held priority over blood testing; this progress is considered excellent. 1. Hiily the veterinarians have complimented the cooperation ' experienced with owners.
The crec it for this wonderful progress is due not only the herd owners themselves but the folloiv-ing volunteer committeemen who nave contac ted owners expressing their interes t in and value of Rap-., pahannock becomib^classified as 1 a "Bangs free County” they are: G. Brown Miller, J. Rodes Brown Irvin Wolf, and Jim Yates of Hawthorne District Jim Bill Fletcher, Ned Johnson, Lucio Kilby, Roy .Atkins, Luther Jenkins, Thomas Taylor, G. M. Black and j. T. Dwyer of Piedmont District also Weis on Burke, Gordon ■Thornhill, Raymond Johnson and. Earl Combs of Stonewall; Ditfk Mill ?r( Billy Moffett, Ned Jones,-sjonas Jeiflcins, “B” fMiller, Milton Gore.and George Wood of h ampron District; Herbert Jla^kmlale, Nelson, Atkins, Raytram- S utphiri, Aubrey North gnd./Ellis * Bennett; and Charlis ’ComjSww^ ivor Jacobs, Ike Parrish, Gen. Noce, Elliott Doyle, A. C. 1/athun, and M. L. Thomp
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