This week in Canton history...
Canton Harold- April 21, 1960:
Van Zandt county stockmen are going to make an all-out effort to get the required number of signatures on a petition for a Bang’s Control Program, according to the announcement made by L. L. Burns, chairman of the county animal health committee, at the meeting Tuesday night, April 18, in Canton. Twenty-three people attending agreed to (1) contact everyone in their own community and asked them to sign the petition. A map of the county was cut and divided among the livestock men so they would know whom to contact in their section of the county: (2) Set May 31 at the deadline for getting the entire county covered and required number of signatures for a type to control program.
Back in the fall of 1959 the last dog is not life stockmen decided upon a Type II control program for bangs control because (1) testing animals would not cost the livestock men anything, (2) free vaccination would be available for vaccination of all replacement animals, (3) Type II is by far the most practical method for getting the county modified certified free.
As soon as a county submits a petition, free vaccination vaccine is made available to all last Ottoman fork half hood (4 to 12 months of age) replacement animals even though it may be several months or two or three years before any testing is done in the county. No counties will be working in East Texas until a block of several counties submit a petition. Several East Texas counties are almost ready to submit one.
