4—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday. September 12. 1959
For Dairy Cows
Good Urea Feeds OK
,Many dairymen having
farm-grown grains could re
duce their feed costs this
by using a high qual
ity, urea-containing supple
ment, ' says Dr' Richard S.
Adams, Dairy Extension
Specialist. Others, he adds,
could benefit by feeding a
good quality, complete feed
containing area.
' Many dairy Tanners are
still reluctant to use urea
containing feeds, but Dr. Ad
ams says this fear of formu
la feeds with urea is largely
unfounded today, because
satisfactory performance of
such feeds has been reported
by reputable feed manufac
turers.
Possible toxic and other
adverse effects of urea on
the health of cattle have
been grossly over-emphasiz
ed by many dairymen.
Adverse effects of urea on
cattle health have been sub-
Bulk Tanks Save Steps
When planning to equip a
dairy barn for pipe line milk
ing Chester County Agent
Pmbert A. Powers, Jr. sug
gests considering where the
millr and air lines are to be
placed.
. Instead of putting the lines
at or near the stanchion yoke
or. the lie line he advises
putting the lines over the
loin of the cow.
Suspend the air line about
6 to 6V2 feet from the floor,
and p l ace the milk line right
above the air line. If the
milk hne is glass the airline
■will protect it from being
bumped.
Powers says this layout is
suggested for a barn. He fig
uries the difference in steps
saved over where the line
■was to be placed, add up in a
day’s time (2 milkings) to a
bout 250 steps.
This saved 625 feet of
walking each day. In a
year’s tune this eliminates
more than 47 miles of walk
ing.
In planning it is wise, he
continues, to consider proper
Cows' First Milk Is Vital
For Calves' Good Health
White scours,* the violent
diarrhea which threatens
the lives of newborn calves,
is best controlled by colo
strum, the first milk produc
ed by a cow after a ca'f is
bom
Colostrum is rich in any
bodies, substances which are
absorbed by the calf and
help destroy the bacteria
which cause scours, reports
~Dt. Paul J. Glantz, bacter
iologist at the Agricultural
.Experiment Station, the
Pennsylvania State Univer
sity.
Dr. Glantz says white
scours is a baffling disease to
control because outbreaks
seem hope’essly unpredict
able It is known that scours
appears in baby calves with
in 48 hours of birth
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few instances.
Some research indicates
that much higher levels of
urea than are found in most
feeds are not harmful to cat
tle when properly used and
fed.
, bibty between the legislative
A number of good quality judicial and- administrative
commercial supplements branches of government is
with urea are being sold, being tested in Washington
When oil meals are high in this week,
price, such'as this winter r - The public has been in
urea-containing supplements vited to hear and participate
are often cheaper sources of in debate over whether an
protein equivalent. administrative agency should
issue an order having the ef-
Dr. Adams believes econ- f ec t 0 f law without the spe
omics should determine cifica’ly stated consent of the
whether or not a good quali- Congress.
ty, urea -containing feed (liQ- Secretary of Labor James
uld or dry) should be fed. It Mitchell, will decide on the
there is a distant price ad- basis of the arguments, -whe
vantage, dairymen need not to make permanent a
hesitate to use a good feed tentative order that would
with urea according to the delegate to his subordinates
feeding instructions given by the power to establish mm
a reputable manufacturer hnum wages and working
conditions for more than one
million hired farm workers.
The question, howeve- is
much deeper ' and broader
; than that of applying rrrni
. mum wages to farm workers.
. It involves the whole consent
. of the function of an admin
istrative agency,- of -vwhch
, the/" are hterahy hundreds
’ in Washington.
Law By Interpretation
Is n 'aw just what Cong
ress Says, or is it what the
, lawyers in an administrative
aeoncv interpret it to
Some interpretation fm
| onrnt'v is necessary bu+ that
: interpretation should r~+ go
beyond the Uea L umnt of
1 Cc ng v ess. No agency should
over it has any an
’ Ihnn'tv simply because Con
■ gross has not said it doesn't
; have it
Tf js conceded that f'on
■ gress never has spec'fto-^llv
: pran+eri the Secretary o' Lab
or authority to set minimum
v/nges tor farm workers But
t is ■’rwnje.d by tho e bwk’ug
; ihe o,r!er. neither ha c it er
; m a 'v,"i Le cannot iss"/> su
- W - -Ur.v CJq ,•+ ~
ded, issuance of the order
• would not be a violation of
• anv law
rr ’' s we think, Js no f val
id reasoning. The order it m,t
into effect and not revised,
enu’d become a precedent th
xat would open the wav for
other agencies to, in effect,
make laws by interpretation.
Lam B. Interpretafiov
Months ago Secretary Mit
chell an able and
tious administrator, asked At
torney General Wililam P
Rogers for an official ruling
on whether he had the au
thority to issue the proposed
order.
pitch of line, one milk cock
for every three cows, cut use
of risers, and eliminate un
necessary piping so proper
cleaning can be done.
Bulk milk handling is the
answer to re'ieving the 40,-
000 dairymen in Pennsylvan
ia from the staggering job
of lifting a yearly total of 6.7
billion ibs. of milk from the
million cows on dairy farms.
Every morning, as well as
every evening, about nine
million lbs. of milk are re
moved from the cows to the
milk house.
Each day he 35,000 farm
ers who don’t have bulk
tanks 1 ft, carry, tote, roll,
shove, and push about 16
million lbs of milk in about
200,000 - 40 qt. cans. The
empty cans alone weigh a
bout 5V2 million pounds.
Use of conveyer systems,
pipe line milkes, and bulk
milk tanks are relieving
da’rymen of untold labor
just as ou door farm machin
ery has taken the back
breaking work out of farm
ing.
Use of antibiotices, such as
aureomycm, must be admin
istered almost as soon as a
calf is born, Dr. Glantz ad
vises, if the dosage is to be
most effective
Dairymen have found this
treatment very helpful, ac-
companied by the immedi
ate use of colostrum, but it
does not take the place of
clean and comfortable hous
ing
The infection is started be
fore the digestive tract of
the ca’f has become accust
omed to any kind of food,
Dr. Glantz asserts. At this
tune the organism causing
the disease passes more eas
ily from the in estine into
the blood of the calf
Unfortunately, not all an
tbodi.es in the colostrum will
protect the calf against the
specific E Coli type of bac
teria causing scours.
In recent years, Dr Glantz
has been able to isolate from
Pennsylvania sources several
disease - producing strains
of E coli
Farm
Two of these strains are
very deadly and hard to con
trol Some of these strains
have been found in human
infants and there is increas
ing evidence of their effect
upon diseases among many
farm animals
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in Washington
by Clinton Davidson
Matter Of
a very
Prmciple
The basic philosophy un
derlying our democratic sys
tem of a division of responsi-
After long study Mr Ro
gers ruled (1) that the auth
ority was “anphed” in the
30 year old *
Act winch established the U.
S. Employment Service in the
Labor Department and (2)
that there is nothing in any
law specifically prohibiting
him from issuing such an or
der.
The order, if made effect
ive, would delegate to the U.
S. Employment Service the
authority to require that fa
rm employers who obtain
out-of-state workers through
USES pay at least the pre
vailing wage in their area
The farm employer also
would have to agree to mee*
housing standards acceotable
to the USES, and to pay trans
portation of the workers fr
om their home and return
when the USES determines
-that to be a “common prac
tice ”
The question isn’t whether
these regulations are and
reasonable, but rather the
fundamental issue of the au
thority of an administrative
aeency to make rules a-' 3
gulat’ons not c’earlv a- A -«--
ized by Cingress This seems
to us to be a serious threat
tn cu*- constitutional
ion of authority - *he
legislature and —«t
ive branches of gover ■-*
Bible Material: Jonah.
Devotional Beading: Psalm 67
For All People
Lesson for September IS, 1959
JOINAH is. a strange sort of book.
It was placed by the early He
brew editors among the prophets;
but there is nothing to indicate
that Jonah wrote a line of it. Jt is
a story abput a prophet rather
than sermons by a -prophet. It is
strange, moreo;* " ' sthing
good issaidabou
every one. men
tioned in thi
book—all excep
Jonah Furfhei
while prop.he'
were expected
proclaim Goi
word and wi
this man Jon,
argues with Gi
and shows_ very ,
plainly that he does not think well
of .God’s attitude. .Indeed, except
when inside the fish, where the
man was very pious indeed, Jonah’s
remarks_ fre, with one exception
rather peevish. _ - .
Blind Prophet
Nevertheless' the reader learns a
great deal from this book. Jonah
is generally wrong, but God is
right. The trouble-With this frac
tious prophet was that he could
not see things as God saw. them.
Maybe this makes him no prophet,
some-one will ask. To be sure, he
is never called a prophet in this
book, but he must be counted one,
for he did filially say what the Lord
told him to say. And still, his stub
born peevishness is much more in
the picture than his obedience.
Forgone thing, Jonah could not
see the repentance of Nineveh
Nineveh was the capital of As
syria, a nation which brought great
disasters on the Israelites. Jonah
evidently shared, the general opin
ion of his fellow-lsraehtes at that
period, that the only good Assyrian
was a dead Assyrian. The sins of
Nineveh were plain enough to
Jonah. What he could not see was
the people’s repentance and faith.
It is a strange contrast we have
here: the people of Nineveh who
believed God, and Jonah who did
Now Is The Time . ..
TO BUY SEED SUPPLY The pla
.eason for winter grains will soon bi
rand and growers are advised to ordei
take delivery of ,the ‘ainoynts needs
iroper varie res. In many cases the si
of the best var.eties becomes exhausted
late-comers have to take what is hf
oays to plant clean, certified or rcgis
seed.'
O USE PHOSPHORUS AND POTAi
mall grain producers might reduce t
'ount of lodging by using 300 to 401
per acre of an 0-20-20 or 0-15-30 fertilizer at planting
This fertilizer will not encourage more rank grow
will aid both root and seed development and streng e
straw. Also, pasture fields and legume hay fields J ll '
top-dressed this fall with th's fertilizer in order to s r<
en the stand for the 1960 season.
MAX SMITH
TO RODENT PROOF THE CORN CRIBS— Corn crit
storage bins should be cleaned and unde rat 311
proof before the new crop is harvested. These rode 11
reduce the feeding value and the sale value of corn
on the ear or shelled. The use of hardware clot
shields, and masonry construction will reduce the 1
tion and infestation.
TO CLIP THOSE PASTURES—Good pasture manaj
includes frequent clipping as long as the gra ss
weeds grow; this not only improves the general apP ‘
of ’the areas but encourages new growth, permits n
form grazing, and stops weed seed- formation
TO VENTILATE THOSE TOBACCO SHEDS— A ll
sources of ventilation should be utilized to
moving in the tobacco barns and sheds under h ’
weather conditions. The present crop is quite n
full of sap ; recent weather conditions have f a%or^ r
burning”. Many growers are using large fans to
air through the tobacco, special attention to tin s
will pay dividends.
not; the people 0 f MjA,,
pented and Jonah who'r
the story goes) never i
of his attitude to
had what is now called
type” m his mind when i!
of a Nmevito, that w ”
ture which he could'
a picture of a hopelcao
and wicked man AumJ.
vite, weeping f ol hlg n
something so strange tn r
he could not see it J
No lyi for Children
At the end of the sto
God is explaining to j
he (God) took pity on '
capital city, 120,000
mentioned who ”du not h
right hand fiom thi W ],
generally supposed 1 hit i
to children God even sp e
cattle, the divine mten
mals Comes out m this b,
where else in the Old T
It,is clear that Jonah 1
thought of the children
of the cattle' What he
see was fire from heav«
- nig city Tliat there woul
-cent suffereis m the flj
not seem to have occun
man. Again Jonah had 1
type of Nifteutes
“For Our Instruction"
“These things were v.
our instruction," said a j
ment writer about the (
ment' Certainly the bool
has something strong to
here and now; so strong
hard to take (The Israe
did “take" the message o
of Jonah ) We also have
ite stereotypes, we tlimli
in certain fixed ways u
dom think they could be
Let the reader test him
do these woids suggest
Negro, Russian, boss,
hanker, congi essman, s<
A. A. C. P,
European, union organ®
crat? It is safe to say 1
leaders have fixed ■id
some of these, and peii
fixed hatieds In wa,
we always think of the
Jonah did of Nineveh, n
the hai m the enemy hi
us It is a hai d pill to sw
we don’t know whethei (
managed to swallow it, b
is, we love everybody (
enemies, but God loves o
too Peace will neve''
Gods people begin to
people God loves
(Bared on outlines cop;
ins Division ol Chirtian
Nntional Council of the <
Christ m the l T S A I
Community tfiesb Ser.icc)
BY MAX SMITH