. Activities handbook. Veterinary medicine. Disease Reporting A look at the future Experience gained in the \K epidemic em- phasized the need of keeping personnel alert to the constant threat of disease whose ap- pearance in public stockyards could wreck the livestock industry. Equally essential is com- petence in the early diagnosis of Inspectors examine livestock for symptoms of disease. Training programs will be improvetl to give inspectors increasing information about dis- ease conditions. Interchange of will be made between stockyards inspection and cooperative disea
. Activities handbook. Veterinary medicine. Disease Reporting A look at the future Experience gained in the \K epidemic em- phasized the need of keeping personnel alert to the constant threat of disease whose ap- pearance in public stockyards could wreck the livestock industry. Equally essential is com- petence in the early diagnosis of Inspectors examine livestock for symptoms of disease. Training programs will be improvetl to give inspectors increasing information about dis- ease conditions. Interchange of will be made between stockyards inspection and cooperative disease eradication programs to increase familiarity with all Division activities. A manual is being written that will bring greater uniformity in the handling of at public yards. Stockyards inspectors stand in the first line of defense in protecting the livestock industry from the ravages of communicable diseases. Continuing efforts to imjjrove ins]:)ection pro- ficiency in the early detection of disease will further assure the public that its food supply is well guarded. Development of reporting When Norsemen landed on North American shores around the year 1004, they brought with them cattle, sheep, horses, and goats. By the time Jamestown was settled, these domestic animals had vanished. The Spaniards brought horses, but they remained in the west. So when a bull and three heifers from Eng- land arrived at Plymouth colony in 1624, they came to an environment that was more nearly disease-free than it has e\er been since. Communities developed, but remained iso- lated. Movement of animals was local. The few early records available indicate that ap- parently serious losses did occur in certain localities. Generally, however, when diseases were introduced they did not become wide- spread. Early agricultural journals, starting with the "American Farmer" in 1819, attempted to l)ublish reports of animal diseases. Soon many of them had regular veterinary columns. Un-
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