*B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 23, 1963
• McMullen
(Continued from Page 7)
Papers were filled out to be
filed with the Bureau of Ani
mal Industry of the Depart
ment of Agriculture in Harris
burg, and it was time again
for the ritual of boot washing.
By this time Dr. McMullen’s
white coveralls were beginn
ing to get blood and manure
spattered, but since our next
stop was more dehorning, he
decided to wait until after
that operation to don clean
clothes.
After three cows were de
horned and the blood vessels
pulled out to stop the bleed
ing, a cow with breeding pro
blems was examined. The doc
tor removed a Corpus Lutium
from the ovary and told the
farmer. Mason Druck, Quarry
ville Rl, that the cow would
be ready to breed in three to
five days. The condition could
be corrected with hormones,
he said, but that treatment
sometimes brings on cystic
ovaries, and that is a much
more serious problem. Remov
al of the body from the ovary
by pinching it off was done
quickly and with very little
effort through the intestinal
wall In most cases this is all
the treatment needed, he said.
Since we were near home
and the doctor needed clean
coveralls, we returned to
Quairyville, and I took my
leave. He had several moie
calls to make during the af
ternoon and I had to leave
the exciting world of animal
medicine and leturn to the
exciting world of printer’s ink.
As I look back over the day,
I thought most of the cases
were routine, but to the farm
er, none of them were routine
They might mean the differ
ence between profit and loss
on his year’s operation. I
thought of the relief some of
them must have felt when tne
animals seemed to be on the
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ce to indicate a buildup of soil
insects in a field of continuous
corn.
'On the other hand, Dr. Carl
ton Taylor, plant disease spec
ialist, said corn diseases do
tend to build up in fields wh
ere corn follows corn. He said
corn leaf blight, a problem in
wet years and with thicker pl
antings can best be controlled
by planting resistant hybrid
varieties.
Stalk rot, which is also a dis-;
ease of hot, humid summers,
can also best be controlled by
selecting resistant varieties.
Strains resistannt to the virus
of staly rot are now being dev
eloped and will soon be avail-
road to recovery, and I
thought of the disappointment
which must have been felt by
the farmer when the doctor
told him his high producing
cow with hardware disease had
very little chance of recovery.
Eveiy one of the farmeis
were interested in the health
of his animals, and Dr. Mc-
Mullen shaied his interest.
This too is agriculture, I
thought.
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corn is ready”, he reminded the
farmers. Rotation of crops will
help if the disease organism
has built up in the^soil.
The organism that causes
stalk rot of corn also causes
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seedling blight of corn. Taylor
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ground before seeding wheat
in the field.
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corn has been treated for fun
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sprinkled over the seed in the
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George 'Berggren, extension
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