ister Farming, Saturday, June 29, 1963
p Scabies
licated
nna.
ota, Michigan, New
id Pennsylvania have
ared free of sheep
the U S. Department
Iture, following icam
- the. State and Fed
to'ck regulatory wor-
Jbies-free designation,
id today, means that
inary dripping of bree
feeder sheep (being
other areas is no
imipulsory.
announcement ap
-9 counties in Mifehi
all of the other three
'hirtyifour counties in
previously had been
fiee of the disease.
Established eradication pro
cedures were followed in the
four iS'tates. All sheep vAere
carefully inspected, and affec
ted sheep were treated and
diipped. Reinspection showed
that the treated sheep no lon
ger have the disease.
Scabies, also called mange
or scab, develops ift’oni tiny
puncture wounds inflicted on
the sheep’s skin by mites
Chronically diseased skin areas
become hardened and covered
with tightly-adhering, scaly,
grayish crust This condition
causes intense itching Ser
iously infected sheep lose wei
ght and fleece, and may die
unless treated
The disease is transmitted
readily from one animal to an
other by direct contact.
BOOKS EXPLAINED TO
MERRY STITCHERS 4-H
Mrs. Herbert Royer, dub
leader explained the use of
project record books at the
Tuesday afternoon meeting of
the Manheim Township “Merry
Stitchers” 4-H club at Produc
tion Credit Building, Roseville
Road
'Next meeting will be held
July 8 at 1:30 p.m. at the same
place.
To smart women, men are
a solution, not a problem.
BEFORE
YOU Teethe
•PATZ:
: CATTLE :
: FEEDER :
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Excess Nitrogen
Cuts Quality
Of Grass Silage
Heavy nitrogen fertilization
of forage -grass can cause sig
nificant reduction in the qual
ity of high-moisture silage, a
U ®. Department of Agricul
ture scientist said today.
Other studies, however, in
dicate that fanmers can get
the higher yield benefits of
heavy fertilization without the
problem of poor quality by wTV
ting the forage crop before en
silinig, or by adding preserva
tive when silage is ac
cording to U'SDA’s Agricultural
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Research Service.
Although the alteration of
plant composition by changes
in fertilization has been re
peatedly demonstrated, the im
portance of these alterations
to silage quality has not been
•generally recognized, Dr. Ches
ter H. Gordon told the Ameri
can Dairy Science Association,
which is meeting at Purdue
University.
Dr. Gordon, a dajiry hus
bandman with the Agricultural
Research Service, pointed out
that high-moisture silage made
from orchardgrass that was
heavily fertilized with nitro
gen (400 lbs. of ammonium
nitrate per acre) was a lower . , , .
, , , , , ~ , (Chemical analysis of silage
quality and less acceptable to “ . “, J ,
„ from the fertilized grass m
dairy cows than silage from 1 tt t.
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rect-cutting and imlmeditte-em
siling method.
These silages were fed as
the only forage on a three
week alternating schedule over
off about three months
in experiments conducted' at
Beltsville, Md,
Cows on silage from fertili
zed grass ate about 15 percent
less dry matter than they ate
when offered silage made of
grass not fertilized with nitro
gen. .Milk yields were about
the same during the short per
iods off this study, but the ef
fects on milk (production off
prolonged feeding of silage
from the fertilized grass were
not measured.
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Hud lower lactic acid content
all indications Oif inlferlor qual
ity, Dr. GTordon said.
Earlier studies at Beltsvillei
have shown fairly similar re
sults. Nitrate poisoning was
not involved since nitrate prac
tically disappeared during en
siling, (but 'the quality of the
silage was poor, Consumption
of the material hy milk cows
was low and, in one experi
ment, milk production decrea
sed and the cows lost weight.
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a major USDA effort to keep
farm communities prosperous
and to restore properity to
those by passed by technologi
cal developments.
The Mississippi River delta
covers 12,300 square miles.
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