B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 9,1968
MR. AND MRS. LEROY R. PFAUTZ,
Stevens RI, received a colored air photo
graph of their farm Tuesday night, after
being named “Conservation Farmer of
1967’', by the Lancaster County Soil and
• Soil & Water
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cause of the stup cropping Mc-
Keevei estimated these stups.
if placed end to end would en
circle the earth four times
‘ Pennsylvania was slow in
starting conservation,’’ he said
“But they haie made up for it
as the years ha\e passed ’’
In the awards program, Le-
Roy R Pfautz, Stevens Rl, was
tecognized for his outstanding
work of conservation on his farm
and was presented a colored air
photograph of his farm by the
District Abner J Houseknecht,
veteran Soil Conservation Serv
ice worker was picsented a
plaque foi “Outstand ng Serv
ice'’
Farmers who have been long-
Penn State Researchers
Find Cure For Ketosis
A highly effective treatment that the farmer can continue
for ketosis a puzzling disease the treatment himself after a
that afflicts cows at the peak ot single visit from the veterman
milk production has been de- an, the report explained The
veloped by a team of research- new experimental treatment ap
ers from Penn State University pears to give quicker recoveries
. , , than other treatments which in-
One injection of a vital nutn- volve insu i in an d cortisone-like
ent called methionine, followed dru g Si jjjg scientists pointed out
jy treatment with capsules con- Within three days after dis
daining a well-known poultry eased covvs were injected with
eed supplement quickly brings methlomne th e n given daily
liseased cows back to normal. doses of the poultry feed chem .
R D McCarthy andG lca j m capsu le form, the cows
A Poiter of Penn State s De- VV ere brought back to high level
partment of Dairy Science and mdk prot j U ction At the -same
? r !f 1 , Jr ° f ® epart ' time, the metabolic upset re
ment of \ etermary Science sponsible for the disease was
Their findings, supported, in corrected
part by the Penna State Depart- The matenal m the capsules 1S
ment of Agriculture, appear in chemicall related t 0 methion
(he Maich issue of the Journal me and has been used for years
of Dairy Science as a pou it r y f eed supplement
Ketosis which bears a su- its official chemical name is
perficial resemblance to human ql alpha hydroxy gamma me
diabetes annually afflicts thylmeicapto butyrate calcium
about a million cows in this The Penn State team suggests
country, causing them to go off that the capsules might also be
•eed, lose weight and reduce used to prevent the disease from
milk output At the same time, developing while it is still in the
their milk develops an off flavor, “sub-clinical” stage
due to the accumulation of sub- Scientists ha\e been studying
stances called ketones in the ketosis for about 45 years, but
blood stream In some cases, until now they haven’t been able
this disease results in serious t 0 pr o\e why it appears sudden
mental disorders in the affect- j y and spreads quickly through
ed cows an entire dairy herd They knew
■A major advantage of the in- that it was not caused by a
jection-capsule combination is ‘‘gcrrp” or yirys, Jjiit yyqs, prpb:.
Water Conservation District at their an
nual meeting. Making the presentation at
the Quarryville Methodist Church is
Abram D. Dombach, (right) County Com
missioner. L. F, Photo
time supporters of conservation Victor Keene, Clayton Keener,
were also honored They are John Kindig. Clyde Kreider,
Ch a i 1e s Anderson, Melvin John Kreider, Edgar Lefevre,
Boyce, John A Breneman, Rob- Joseph Lesley, John J Long,
eit Bnnton, Arthur Brown, Le\i Milo McClune, John McCol-
Brubaker William Bucher. Leh- lough, Clyde McSparren. Rich
man Burkins Ross Donley Cy- ard Melhnger. Elam Mull, Clyde
K Mylm, R V Pennington,
Charles Preston, Elmer Probst,
J A Railing, Charles Ressler,
William C Ressler, Carl Rey
nolds, Claude T Roland, Her
man Shirk,
See Other Photo Page 13
ms Ferguson, Walter Ferguson,
Claud Fuller. Amos Funk,
J Clarence Garber, Monroe
Garber Norman Garber. Earl
Groff, Owen Groff, Paul Groff,
P M Habecker, Charles Hart,
Abram Harmsh. A Huber Har
msh, J Lloyd Harmsh, Sam Har
nish, Henry H Hackman, Hir
old C Herr. Ivan Herr,
John Herr, Ezra Hershey,
James Hess Paul Hess. Harry
Houser. G Jackson, Roy Keene
Almus Shoemaker, Arthur
Shoemaker, Lewis Shoemaker,
John Slaymaker, A B Stottle
myer, Mrs Howard Wagner,
Roy H Weaver, Mrs Gertrude
Weicksel, Samuel Wiker, Clair
H Witmer, James Wood, Rich
ard Reese, W Martin Muth,
Ivan McKeever, Ralph Ruble,
Abner J Houseknecht
ably due to variations in the
cow’s feed
Because the disease usually
occurs when the cow’s system is
in “high gear”, producing milk
at such a level that she can’t eat
enough to keep up, the research
team theorized that ketosis was
linked to the temporary lack of
some vital nutrient
The Penn State researchers
believe that they have now pin
pointed the cause of the disease
as a methionine deficiency which
triggers off a chain of detri
mental events in the cow’s milk
producing machinery Previous
ly an upset in carbohydrate me
tabolism had been blamed
Their suspicions were aroused
by the fact that methionine
an ammo acid building block for
good milk protein is produced
at a very low level by the ver
satile bacteria in the cow’s first
stomach or rumen Any drain
on the methionine supply could
therefore have serious nutrition
al repercussions
Careful analysis ot the blood
of the University’s Holstein
dairy herd clarified what may
happen when the methiomne-de
ficient cow gets ketosis The
analysis showed a decline in cer
tain blood serum proteins and a
rise in the amount of “fatty ac
ids” that the blood contained
In the complex chemistry un
derlying milk production, meth
ionine appears to help hook up
essential proteins with substanc
es in the blood called phospho
lipids, the Penn State team
f0und,........ . ...
‘‘Actually In bandying about this Impressive-sounding deficit
the $1.9 billion (travel deficit) to well under $5<JO million.”—
figures, the politicians ignore John Hughes in the New York
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