VOL. 8 NO. 16
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THREE VETERINARIANS PREPARE their supplies for the day before
starting on their calls. Dr. -Robert McMullen, left, and his two assistants, James
Cox, center, and Larry Schmuck, gather medicine and equipment which will be
needed during the day. The three veterinarians work out of the same office to
cover the area around Quarryville and-south to the Maryland state line.
Corn Borer Control Spray
Does Not Pay For Itself
Chemical control of corn
borer does not pay for itself,
county corn growers were told
Tuesday night
John O Pepper, extension
entomologist ftom the Pennsyl
vania State University, speak
ing at a meeting of about S 5
farmers in che Landisville fire
hair said. “We have not been
able to make corn borer con
trol pay.”
iHe said D-DT can be used to
control Japanese Beetles, but
if it is used, the fodder can not
be used for forage. If the fod
der is to he used for livestock
feed, Sevin is recommended He
reminded farmers that neither
Dieldnn or Heptachlor is to be
Farm Calendar
Mar. 23 10 a m Pennsj!-
vama Landrace Swine show
at Martin’s Sales Stables, Bl
ue Ball. Sale ot entries alj
1 p.m.
Mar. 25 - 9 a m North Car
olina farmers to begin tour
of the count} at the farm of
Noah Kreidei, Manheun R 3
7:30 pm —Reoigamzation
meeting of Elm-Penryn 4-H
club m the Peni}n fire hall.
7:36 pm County FFA
meeting m Ephrata High
School.
Mar. 26 1 P m. Meeting
on 1964 Wheat Program at
the Production Credit build
ing, Roseville Road.
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used for spring application on
forage crops
In answer to a question.
Pepper said there is no eviden
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Poultry Meet
Will Feature
Pullet Growing
All aspects of pullet rearing
will be discussed at a meeting
scheduled to be held in the
Lancaster Poultry Center, Ro
seville Road, next Thursday,
March 28 at 7 45 p.m.
The special education meet
ing sponsored by the Lancaster
Poultr> Association will feat
ure Dr Floyd Hicks, the new
poultry extension specialist,
from the Peans>l\ama State
Unuersit} Dr Hicks has been
actne m poultry work in Mic
higan for several jears and
w ill discuss pullet laismg in
that state He will also mod
el ate a panel of local poultr>-
men and uidustrj men concer
ned with pullet production.
Also on the program will he
Dr Donald Smgletaiy, Direc
tor of the diagnostic section ot
Whitmoyer Laboi atones, My
erstown He will discuss sani
tation and general management
as they relate to disease con
trol.
All county poultrymen are
invited.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 23, 1963
Wheat Program
To Be Subject
Of Meeting
Farmers will be better in
formed about how to vote in
the proposed wheat program
referendum scheduled tor May
if they attend the meeting on
March 26 at 1 p m in the Pro
duction Credit building on Ro
seville Road, according to Ed
ison Osborne, Peach Bottom, a
member of the state Wheat
Committee
Arnold Pmay of the state
Agriculture Conservation and.
Stabilization committee will be
on hand to explain details of
the 1964 wheat program. An
attempt will be made to secure
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Farmers Asked
To Show Hay
Fanners from the county are
invited to exhibit samples of
bam cmed hay in the North
eastern Hay Drying Association
winter hay show' and meeting
at Allentown next week
The meeting wni be held in
the Lehigh Valley Cooperative
Farmers auditorium on March
2<) with the ha\ judging to be
gin at 1 p m on March 2S
The piogiam on Fridav will
begin at 10 am with a hay
judging contest to be followed
by a tom of the Lehigh Valiev
plant. After a business meeting:
at 1 p in Harvey Dreibelbis of
Hominy Hill Farms will talk
on “A Decade”. Presentation o{
awards -will be made by John
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I Ride With The Veterinarion
Modern Animal Medicine
Uses Scientific Methods
Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles
dealing with .Lancaster County businesses related to agricul
ture. The writer will spend a day riding with personnel who
serve the farmer but who do not actively engage in the busi
ness of farming. The articles are an attempt to bring the farm
er a report of the .job of service personnel before they reach
the farm. Other articles will be printed in the following weeks.
They rolled the old dairy short ribs on the left side of
cow right over on her back a cow that had a slight fever
and massaged her abdomen, and poor appetite He heard
This was something new to abomasum noises where rumen
me I had never seen a cow noises should have been; there
“rolled” for the treatment of a was a slight lump on the cow’s
displaced abomasum (fourth side, and since she showed
stomach), but Hi Robert Die- traces of acetonemia in a una-
Mullen, Quarryville, said it is alysis, the diagnosis was “dis
not a new piactice placed abomasum”.
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Earlier in the day, as I rode
with Dr. McMullen, ano'her
farmer had discussed the pio
cedure with us, and I almost
hoped we would have the op
poitumt> of seeing it in prac
tice not that I wished any
tiouble on a fanner, but I
hoped one of our calls would
include a cow with a twisted
digestive tract
The condition appears to be
getting moie common, Dr Mc-
Mullen said As the internal
organs retain to place after the
cow diops a call, the aboma
sum sometimes slips out ot itr.
noimal position beneath the
nimen (the big first stomach)
and twists the digestue tiact
causing a constriction and con
sequent slow down ot bowel
movements The cow r goes off
feed and shows traces of a
mild case of acetonemia
L. F. Photo
At the farm of Albert Ston
er, Quarrynlle Rl, Dr Mc-
Mullen listened with his ste
thoscope in hollow below the
Farm Bureau Co-op Plans To Buy
Unsold Tobacco Crops In Co.
The Lancaster County Faun
Bureau Cooperative this week
revealed a plan to purchase
the unsold portion of the 1962
county tobacco crop.
The Farm Bureau consented
to the program with the provi
sion that the County Tobacco
Groweis (Cooperative withdraw
its proposed marketing plan
John Wolgemuth. assistant
manager of the Lancaster Cou
nty Farm Emeau Coopeiative
said late this week that details
of the plan have not yet been
worked out, but all buying will
be on a contractual basis with
a binding agreement on the
producer
At a meeting Wednesday
night, the tobacco coopeiatire
agieed to abandon its plan toi
a maiketmg program
According to Wolgemuth, the
Farm Bureau will purchase the
() op, but gioweis will he re
quired to redu (r their 10 Go ac
reage under tenvatn e plant. \et
to be approied
Mark Hess of the state Faim
Bureau said this week he hop
es buying of the filler leaf can
begin this month The tobacco
would probably be purchased
By: Jack Owen
Stoner put the cow m »
box stall and Dr McMullen
placpd a long lope over her
neck The ends ” eie drawn
down between the fore legs,
crossed over her back and out
between her hind legs along
side the uddei A tug on the
lope put the cow on her side.
While one man held her head
down so that she could not
get up, Stoner and the doctor
idled hei onto her back and
massaged her bell>.
The cow got to her teet,
and appealed no woise for her
strange treatment The lump
on her side was gone and she
went back to her stall to chew
her cud
The tieatment usually
works, Dr McMullen said, but
once in a while, in stubborn
cases, surgery is performed
and the abomasum is sutured
into its proper position.
The operation was routine
for Dr McMullen who has
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on grade, and the tentative pro
gram would call for acreage
controls, a marketing agree
ment and a selling tee.
The Farm Bureau had a mar
keting program under consid
eration tor some time, but wai
ted until the tobacco coopera
te e decided if it could work
out a plan of its own Farm
Bureau spokesmen told the to
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FIVE-DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Temperatures during the
next file days are expected to
a\erase near normal to tour
degrees below the normal ra
ange of 34 at night to 54 in
the afternoon. Near season
able temporal ii res are expect
ed Saturday with warmer
weather following Sunday
through Tuesday and turning
cooler again Wednesday.
Precipitation during the per
iod is expected to total 0.1
inch or less occurring near
the end of the period.
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