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~ CENTENNIAL TRAVELLERS IN N.B.
Seidler, Mission City, B.C.; Jacques Reilanger, St Jean, -|may bring some Lacombe hogs |
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_ THIS PARSING INDUSTRY-
~ This Story Goes Back To Foot-Mouth Disease
quarter, or even.a piece of in- spuds cost nine dollars per bag. interesting fected meat was not left around This story came from Jack well,” he added. ae farm stories T ever héard came some place we spftead the iiitec- || MacEachern, “Clarke Fruit Co.” ; e
my way last week when I was tion.
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12 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Tues, Ang. 8. 1965.
Incidentally the smallest po- | stress safitation and precautios- tatoes sold here legally are one and seven-eighth of an inch in diameter. The-ones my friend wanted are slightly; smaller than a golf ball, he said
Art MacKenzie of our staff tells me a golf ball measures 1.68 inches in diameter. So the spuds that were sought were something less than one and a
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@ golf ball, he's been the most effectiveness. No one drug will consistent golf winner | can re- | consistently! and persistently be call here on the Island effective naherd .
Luckily he found some, a load| “So | think there is a place |of new potatoes had heen turn- for,SPF pigs, for it is possible ‘ed back to the producer, as to rid yourself of those diseases,
miany of them were undersized. Remember the old-saying “It's @ poor wind that doesn't blow i ; | some good.” “It depends entirely on the man- HOG BUILDING SANITATION’ agement. If a man is an excel- More and more commercial |lent manager, he can keep his hog producers are adopting the herd free of disease", the OVC simple safety precautionary Professor added. measure of locking their pig| He added, though, that there's buildings, and allowing nobody*)some luck to such an to enter the piggeries unless the operation, It’s not entirely in owner or the man handling the | contro! of the man. operation is present. Thus it is| I did a@ story for Saturday’s| - possible to prevent other people | Guardian on the two big corti | carrying infection from another bine pea fartm or plant, or wherever jo P.E.1. fection. might develop. have in operation. I said in the. i The observation ‘came last ;¢utline for @ picture they were | week_from-Dr.-Charies (Chuck) ;““eight-ton” machines, but it) Rowe who is in charge of swine Came out “eighteen” in print. If diseases at the Ontario Veterin- | George . Wright ary College, Guelph, Ontario. —. I have to thank Dr. George jdering what i | Fisher, former director of vet- | you I wasn't drinking. It was an- | jerinary services here, for meet- other case of a typographical er- |: jing Dr. Rowe. The OVC profes. Tor. There are two machines, | a believes that sanitation and | not =. The big machines | sease prevention cannot be | are really something. They k pommaet too strongly in the com- | the’ peas from the swarth, Reed | mercial hog operation I has after —— cut, thresh the! | been stressed increasingly in re- peas from the ;cent years. the vines on the At the Ontario Agricultura: away with the need for ‘the “ {College at Guelph, the farm has ¢rs’’ at the plant, and save a Large English Whites, Canadian 00d bit of trucking among oth- Yorkshires and Landrace swine ef things. ; and “I understand this fall they
but ~ deliverin
in'’, Dr. Rowe told me. Incidentally L.W. Roper, retir- ed this year as provincial live- Chester Bruce of Ontario ar- stock fieldman is building up a rived home to spend his holi- herd of Large English Whites on days at his home in Kingsboro. his farm at Brudenell. I hope to » Mrs. Marjorie Cameron, Char- visit him soon for a look at his lottetown, is visiting with her
herd. sister, Mrs. William Baker, The_first._atiempt witht he Lakeville. Lange English White at the Mrs. Carl MacVane is now
OAC didn’t pan out well at all. convalescing at her home in
— was an undesirable ten- Bothwell following her recent dency “for the animals to overfin- | operation in the P.E.L. Hospital, |
ish. ‘When we cleaned or, | Charlottetown.
though, and established the SPF | Several of ‘the -local school
— he explained, the Large | teachers are now attending sum- nglish Whites proved most sat- | mer school at Prince of Wales
pe ec “We like them very | College, Charlottetown.
South Lake annual Sunday]:
‘T's natural for a man whose | | schoo! picnic was held recently |’
“We were able“to find or ac- | for 199. carcasses and |
mals division, Canadian depart- three quarters, but we were un- |
ment of agriculture, Ottawa.
able to find the other quarter. |
I remembered among other! It was the hind quarter of_a pig, |
things,
Veterinary -medical-men-+did-in+-ed,"’- Dr. Wells stamping out the outbreak of|as we chatted
that the job Canada’s and it appeared to have us lick- |
recalled—for--me, at last week's
Foot and Mouth disease back in| convention of Canada’s veterin-
, 1952 had been regarded by other |
countries that knew the disease, | as almost unbelievably good. So!
_I_talked about it with the man} the successful
who directed campaign. He admitted that it! was good, but explained he! couldn't very well tell me much’ about it because he'was the man who had been Girectiy respon- | sible For those who may have forgotten. the Foot and Mouth disease outbreak, it happened in Western Canada 13 years age, and there was grave apprehension lest Ca- a, “would” have to live with it”. Some of the Europ- ean farmers who have come te Canada, insisted that the disease could not he
hold here. “out the ‘disease
jehewing or gnawing on the |
1 infection. -would_1 be_seated__.. |. ‘Canada’s veterinary “medical |
~Stamping meant that whole herds of cattle had te be destroyed. Huge pits..were bulldozed out of the earth, entire herds were driven inte them and shot by officers of the law, , then the bulldozers covered the pit and that was that.
stroyed in all, if I recall ‘the number correctly.
But theré-was touch mere than that te the campaign against the disease. The fa- cet of the campaign which developed my story was the tracing of detailed informa-
“tion on “any ailiial that”
might have come inte con- tact in any way with the waar ' sa of those animals had slaughtered through nor- ar channels, and Mr. Wells!
and his staff had to trace down |Jady stayed in one of our cot-
the carcasses, even to the final! destination 6f every piece of meat in some cases.
lyears ago, but they had to have | ‘some luck too. This ‘was per-) | haps the biggest piece of luck in|
T Some 1700 animals were de- E i
| how he could get a 75-pound bag |
ary medical men.
Finally, he continued, we. re- ceived an appeal from a farmer who_lived_some_100.miles away. The man said that some of his 'pigs were sick and asked that | the veterinary men visit his farm.
When the. men arrived they | found some sick animals, but the |
| interesting part of the story is|
that°they saw some of the hogs |
shank bone ofa pig.+
Well, you guessed it. The | shank bone came from the miss- ing hind quarter that previously: \had defied detection. And, Dr.’
| Wells told me. the pigs had |=
| gnawed through the bone to the |
marrow, and that is where the }° ~
men did a terrific job in stamp- | ing out the Foot and Mouth dis-) ease threat more than a dozen
ithe entire campaign. A lady was seen cutting a Sear in twe and then sly rubbing the two together. She explain- meee was doing that te get
the poison out.
Another lady carefully cut
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son?—se they wouldn’t give
her family indigestion. REALLY SMALL _POTATOES
A-friend of mine came to me this week for information on
of small, very small potatoes | for his sister from Montreal who was here on vacation and | |was leaving last Saturday. The
tages. I called Ernie Reid— he's in | the potato business—and the
"had been slaughtered and. sold/ | found was a story that a bag of
In one case 200 head of swine small spuds were found. Also
through regular .. eommercial | these very small potatoes came channels. There had been defin-' all the way from Florida last ite contact with the disease and| summer to prepare a dish for each _amimal had to be traced |the Queen, when she was here so that veterinarians could ‘to open the Confederation Mem- make sure that a carcass, = Complex. The imported
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