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A Visit from the Vet

The vet and his deerstalker hat arrive at the Trants’ Powys farm to test cattle for TB, dust rising as they are gathered in the heat.

School programme and Educational film 1957 2 mins Silent

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Overview

The Trants – who farmed at Maesmawr Hall and Cefn Du near Welshpool and Esgairdraenllwyn at Llaithddu, Llandrindod – receive a visit from vet Mr Maddocks, who comes complete with deerstalker hat. He is making his annual check for TB in the herd.

Ion Trant, of Dovea Farm, Tipperary, Ireland, studied agriculture in Canada and then joined the staff of the Welsh Plant Breeding Station in Aberystwyth where he met his future wife, Janet Owen of Maesmawr Hall, Welshpool. Janet bred Herefords crossed with Welsh Black cattle at Esgairdraenllwyn and had established a place for this breed at local sales but her pioneering herd contracted TB and had to be destroyed. Ion Trant’s autobiography – ‘Just Across the Water’ (pub. 1996 in association with the S.E. Cattle Breeding Society, Dovea) details their farming life and his film work - he created the Country Close-Up series for children (BBC TV 1956-62) in which the vet visit footage would have been included.