TRY A CLASSIFIED AD! m: FORD REAR-MOUNTED PLANTERS Check Our Ports & Service Monthly Specials ALLEN H. MATZ, Inc. 505 E. Main St., New Holland K55Lv. A ' ' HERE ARE 6 WAYS WE COULD SKIMP ON THE FAMOUS LAMCO FORAGE BOX t TT ~„ , . . Replace our Safe JJse a U Heavy Duty Ontfeed Apron with a danger- WORM DRIVE auger 3 Use common beater in place of our Spiral beater which peels off the material. No Bunching No Plugging Lamco is Safe Smooth and Trouble free 14 Foot Standard Box KINZER EQUIP. CO. Your Equipment Center in Lancaster County Box 23, Kinzer, Pa. 2-ROW-4-ROW-6-ROW [ I Drill or Hill Drep-ond-Drill Units It | Corn or Corn-and-Cotton Hopptrs f I fr Ph: 354-2214 F. 0.8. $995.00 Phone 442-4186 Researcher Says “Invisible Thieves” Steal $250,000,000 In Cattle Profits Yearly An apparently healthy steed may have as many as 50,000 un seen mouths to feed, according to a Merck & Co, Inc, veterin ary researcher. The extra mouths belong to one of four species of paiasitic round worms, which constitute a $250 million annual problem for the U. S. cattle industry. The Merck scientist, Dr. Rob ert Kilgore, made his observa tions during a seminar on para site control held in Dallas, Tex- as. The two-day seminar was The “invisible thieves,” as he one of a series of educational characterized roundworms, can sessions being held by Animal cost up to 36c a day in feeding Health Products department of a single parasitized calf. He cit- Merck Chemical Division for ed an example from one re key management and sales per- search project which showed a sonnel of farm supply and roundworm burden in a repre veterinary products distributors sentative calf costing 42 pounds throughout the country. in weight during a V-k month Placed end to end, the round period some lie a day in worms in the “healthy-looking terms of market value. Ineffici steer” postulated by Dr. Kilgore en t feed conversion, amounting would stretch over 520 feet, to an extra three pounds of ra “And there would be 96 hungry tions per pound of animal, adds mouths to every foot,” he said, another 5c to 25c per day to the Despite the seriousness of the co ®t °f feeding worms instead of roundworm problem, it has cattle. “For a herd of 100 head,” gone largely unrecognized until ® r - Kilgore said, that would now, Dr Kilgore said He sum- me an a profit loss to the cattle marized findings of 93 field man °f between $1,200 and $2,- tests made in all major cattle- during that 2Vz month producing areas of the country, Period ” ' « - reporting that treatment with “While he’s wondering where the wormer ‘Thibenzole’ pro- the profit is going,” Dr Kilgore duced weight-gam advantages said, “it’s disappearing down averaging .136 pounds per day the throats of millions of round per animal Since almost every worms.” test was conducted among cattle The four “big destroyers” showing no visible signs of para- among cattle roundworms, he site infection, he said, “it seems asserted, are: Haemonchus, the to have been proven beyond any so-called Large Stomach Worm: reasonable doubt that routine Ostertagia, the Medium Stom- f Trade-In Your Old " I Vacuum Pump v s V DARI-KOOL BOU-MATIC Vacuum Supplier Dollar for dollar — this pump out-performs all other pumps on the market! POSEYS GARDEN CENTER (808 POSEY) Rear 49 North Broad St. Phone 717-626-2343 worming of heallhy-looking cat tle will produce significant weight gains on an oveiall basis ” His conclusion was fortified by a second study of 800 beef and dairy herds in various parts of the U S The study showed that 94% of the herds were in fected with roundworms. 8 out of 10 of the individual animals were found to carry roundworm burdens that had been unsu spected before testing. on this new Lancaster Farming, Saturday. May 3.1969 ach Worm; Trlchostrongylus, the Small Stomach Worm, and Coopena, the Small Intestinal Worm Ranging in si/e fiom m inches to only 2/5 of an inch, they burrow into digestive tis sue, diveiting food eneig> from their own use and sapping the animal's blood Yet despite the fact that some 8 out of 10 cattle aie hosts to these tiny thieves, 95 out of 100 cases have gone unobserved and untreated until relatively re cently. The Merck spokeman advocat ed that cattlemen adopt parasite control programs aimed at breaking the roundworm life cycle, plus regular worming with ‘Thibenzole’, the wormer which has been shown to be most consistently effective against the four major types of cattle roundworms. Anti-worm programs, he said, constitute a solid invest ment for cattlemen and feed lot operators In a series of co ordinated tests involving 3,739 feedlot cattle, treatment with ‘Thibenzole’ produced an aver age of $3 - $4 in added gains for each $1 invested in worming a 300% return, with some indi vidual tests disclosing returns of up to 500%. The gam was measured both in more efficient feed conversion plus more weight on the animals them selves. Such gains. Dr Kilgore said, “can spell the difference between profit and no profit in marginal operations, and a very substantial increase for a profit able operation ” Lititz, Pa. M&msf A | ST- / If # CHICKS / HOGS -n I CATTLE I 4 Grow Better if 4 -» h f PIONEER FEEDS Local Farmers Know a Good Feed When They Try It! siii SINCE 1870 ELMER M. SHREIHER Trading as Good’s Feed Mill SPECIALIZING IN DAIRY AND HOG FEEDS New Providence, Pa, Phone 786-2500 31
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