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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-03-27, Page 30 • i • 0 • 0 your air s of $375 million Tax Credits Thousands of Ontario residents will share in this year's Tax Credits. Make sure you get your fair share. To apply, you must file both a Federal income Tax form (even if you don't pay income tax) and 'the Ontario Tax Credit form which comes with it. Any questions? You may, free of charge. dial "0" and ask the operator for Zenith 8-2000. Residents within the Metro Toronto local calling area should dial 965-8470. Ontario's fair .,.. TAX CREDPISY51LM William Davis, Premier Arthur Meen, Minister of Revenue FHH751B Ifyougetthe feeli go thi s are happening m Ontario 4.4 If Argon skating BELMQB The March Meeting of the BelUlfle Arip lits. Was held as a' skating ° a114 card party at the common), .arena. ,after these aetivittea Walter Renwick conducted the business flout of the meeting - Murray Mulvey led the de- votional period with Bill My1{rey reading an Easter story and Mrs. Everett Dustow reading an Easter legend. Mrs. Bill Mulvey led in prayer and Mrs. Murray Mulvey read an Irish blessing before lunch was ,nerved. March Specials Anderson's FettilUzer as low as MS per ton 80 -Ib. bags John Deere No. 22 HAY CONDITIONER New Idea HAY CONDITIONERS as low as'$200 each 15 John Deere and other Wheel Discs - varioug"sizes John Deere five and six furrow -14 and 16 inch Semi Mounted Mows International and John Deere two and four -row Corn Planters and other Farm Equipment New 225 amp. LINCOLN WELDER, - $159. NeW half, three-quarter and one H.P. Air Compressors as low as $139. with farm certificatep 18.4 by 38 and 18.4 by 34 dual wheels and tires - also other. sizes ABM FARMS LTD. Alvin B. Martin 29i-3770 Elmer Martin 887-9043 THE CLOWNS at the Belmore Ice Carnival line up for the prizes. They were: Allan Dick- son, first place; Gwen Dickson; Joan Dickson, second place; Julia Mulvey; and Peter Mulvey, third. The judges at the carnival were Mrs. Pearl Whitehead and Mr. and Mrs" Lloyd Sillick, all of Teeswater. Brucellosis hits large dais but Perth vet says disease A Perth County dairy farmer has lost his entire herd of 218 cattle because of brucellosis, a highly infectious disease. Another herd of 13 cattle has also been completely wiped out. Despite these losses however, Dr. P. D. Armstrong, federal health of animals veterinarian for the\ county, said on Tuesday that the brucellosis outbreak is. "quiet- ning down. There are eight herds under wait 'til you see what the new lottery does for us. It's like a kind of awakening. More andmore of us are getting into things. Kids' baseball tourna- ments. The Hamilton. Philharmonic. Jogging , clubs,1!olk dancing, art clas- ses, Bonspiels. It's happen- ing all over the Province and it's only the beginning. Now, we've got a new "Ministry" to help. The Ministry of Culture and Recreation. Its job is simply to help each of us get more out of life. At first it will co- ordinate things already under way. Like the Ontario Summer Games, the Science Centre, the Ontario Her- itage Foundation. But then it will start helping new programs. And there are literally hundreds of opportunities. Travelling titre groups. New hockey rinks. Support for women in the arts. New libraries, in places where they don't even. exist. Because part of the idea is to give all of us an equal chance to participate, wherever we live. How can we do it all? Well, there's the funds from the new Ontario Lottery,, starting just a few weeks from now. The Lottery is expected to provide many millions of dollars. And every dollar we then put into the various programs will be for just one reason. To help each of us get more out of life. So this is going to be one lottery where all of us wire. ONTARIO LOTTERY CORPORATION. Harvey McCulloch, Charman Marshall Pollock, Managing Director Ontario MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND RECREATION. Bob Welch, Minister Malcolm Rowan, Deputy Minister quarantine in Perth , now as compared to 18 last fall. Neither the farmers' names nor the locations of the farms involved have been revealed. . According to Dr. Armstrong, the eight herds would average from 40 to 80 head of cattle each. Both beef and dairy herds are affected, he said, and the disease is scattered throughout the. county.* • Brucellosis, which attacks the reproductive system of cows can cause .thein to abort, lose milk production and in severe cases, can kill the animal. • The disease is now reported widespread in the counties of Waterloo, Wellington, Grey and Bruce besides Perth. The number. of quarantined herds is said to have increased in the province during?"the" st"three'1 rofths. In �^3 fiat firh,i31 ei1 ,,oyer WI . the leersnow under quairanine, only one animal has been ordered slaughtered due to infection. Dr. Armstrong- pinpoints the "terrific movement" in cattle sales as a mayor difficulty in trying to control the disease. "Cattle are moving in any' direction across the country now- adays;" he said. "You wouldn't believe the number of times an animal has changed hands while we've -been trying to track It down." °r Dr. Armstrong said the out- break utbreak of brucellosis is worse in (;astern Ontario and Quebec than it is in this area. In the five -county area, a total of 43 herds were reported to be under quarantine last week. Besides the eight herds in Perth there are three herds in Waterloo, 11 each in Wellington and Bruce and 10 in Grey. In a recent government press release, Dr. K. F. Wells, veterinary director-general for Canada, says over the years vaccination has reduced the incidence of brucellosis' in Canadian herds from nine per cent in 1950 to 0.2 per cent in 1971. "For complete eradication of the disease, however," .,pr. Wells says, "vaccination must be stopped and infected animals destroyed. It is more economical to eradicate animal diseases than to live with them." Dr. Armstrong concurred, saying present thinking does tend to favor the "test and slaughter" program over vaccination. Several European countries, including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland and, West Germany have eliminated the disease and now ban the use of vaccine. The "test and slaughter" pro- gram, according to Dr. Arm- strong helps to pinpoint the problem herds. Brucellosis control began in Canada with a voluntary program in the early 1930s. In 1950, following a national survey that showed an infection rate between eight and nine percent, a federal -provincial calfhood vaccination program was begun aimed at eradication. By 1957 the infection rate was down to 4.7 per cent — as low as it was thought a mass vaccination program could get it. The next step was a test and slaughter program which, by 1966, had reduced the infection rate to 0.2 per cent of the cattle and one per cent of the herds. Also, in the late 1960s, two screening programs were established — a milk ring test for dairy cattle and a market a testing program for & augh €r cattle. If a positive test is. fount; blood tests are carried `:outon the suspect herd. As veterinarians expected, with\ the slowing 'down of ;toe vaccination program the residual° rate of infection began to show up, more clearly and . it " became. possible to isolate problem Throughout Canada in 1970 there were 3,864 infected cattle from 170 herds. The . following year there were even less — 3,806 cattle -from 153 herds. Bolas the endemic herds began to show up in 1973-74, the figures rose to 8;8.49 cattle from 297 herds. The 197475 , figures will show a slight in- crease in the infected cattle, but a large increase in Infected herds due to the num of herds having single infected cattle. Dr. Wells 'eport'ng I5 being '?teptiOtt*iii with slitiohs` d M C-UVes whole counties will be retested. Testing . is done at cominunity auctions so that cattle going back to farms are also checked. The quarantine period has been extended to 90 days froil130 days with an additional 90 -day quarantine after a 30 -day clean . test. Whole herds are being° depopulated where it is im- possible to dean up the infection. Calves from infected cows are slaughtered and owners are encouraged to clean and disinfect preinisesnquickly and effectively. Dr. Wells lists three precautions all cattle owners should take to help defeat brucellosis: — know- the symptoms of the disease and watch for them; —any cattle added to a herd should be kept in isolation for 30 days and retested before mingling with other animals; — report any abortions im- mediately. Brucellosis vaccine will still be available and it is up to the in- dividual whether to vaccinate. "But if the final decision is to eradicate the disease, it has to be understood that this' means the ultimate elimination of the vaccine. We cannot have it both ways," Dr. Wells says. Stratford girl is chosen for youth exchange A Stratford girl, 4' first-year medical student at McMaster University, has been chosen by Huron -Perth Presbytery as its representative in the inter- national youth exchange pro- gram sponsored by the United Church of Canada. Marilyn Day of 218 Queen Street was chosen by a presby- tery committee from a list of 14 candidates. She joins 90 other young Canadians who have been chosen by their respective presbyteries to visit .foreign countries' during this, the year of the 50th anniversary of the United Church of Canada.' The youth exchange program, is one of many anniversary projects spon- sored by the church. A committee in Toronto will select Miss Day'sestination which bould be Hong long, India, Kenya, Japan or Zambia. She has expressed a desire to visit Korea since she sponsored a Korean orphan and would like to visit her. The Korean child has now found a permanent. home.