—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. May 24.1969
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Vitamin D Provides Calcium
To Halt Milk Fever In Cows
The best was cuiienlly known
foi (l,in> men to i educe the inci
dence ol milk fever in their
dairy herds is to pi ovidc ade
quate calcium and phosphorus
in the ialiens of cows, avoid
feeding lations excessively high
in calcium, and supplement witn
vitamin D the lations of those
cows with picvious milk fever
hisloiy
Dr John W Hibbs, danv re
seat ch scientist at tne Ohio Ag
ncultuial Research and Develop
ment Center, Wooster, Ohio, re
poits this conclusion in a sum
mary of 25 years of milk lever
leseaich earned out at the cen
tei
Dr Hibbs icpoits that early President Nixon has proposed at San Francisco by California
v.ork at the lesearch center a program to guaiantee the right State Assembly Speaker Jesse
showed that feeding 20 million of faim workers to oigamze and, Unruh, who proposed that food
units of vitamin D thiee to seien ai the same time, to protect programs be taken away from
da.vs puoi to calving significant- giowers against the secondary the USDA. But in Washington
lj elevated the blood level of boycott. on Wednesday, Congresswoman
calcium following calving. Presented to Congiess by La- Leo K - Sulhva ? (D-Mo.) re-
One major problem with this boi Secretary George P Schultz, minc ? colleagues that
preventive treatment is that it the plan calls for the establish- P® ar J y everything in the Admin
icquires accurate prediction of ment of a three-member Farm ! st j 3t ,! on s a nt!-hunger proposal
the calving date Feeding of Labor Relations Board and in- been asked by USDA last
these high levels of vitamin D eludes a formula to head off y , a anc * own ma f y
up to 30 days resulted in toxic strikes at harvest time. now hail the recommenda
£ , . tions as a major breakthrough.
effects from calcium deposits in The formula requires 10 days “One nuestion in mv mind ”
blood vessels, kidney, and other advance notice of a strike or sai( j M rs Sullivan “is whether
oi gans, but no harmful effects lockout within which time either ~ ’. . ’
were seen when it was fed for party could postpone the work tlie Administration intends to
the lecommended seven-day per- stoppage by invoking a 30-day asJc for legislation to raise the
10£ h period of mediation The party ceiling, or eliminate it—as we
The effectiveness of feeding invoking the 30-day mediation tried to do here last year ‘ She
lower levels (100,000 to 500,000 would have to agree in advance nearly beine
units daily) of vitamin D the to accept contract terms to be
\eai around was also studied. A determined by a neutral fact- p ?,°® ed , by the Administration
marked i eduction m milk fever finder. could be done under present law
incidence was found m those The legislative proposals were *f the spending ceiling were re
animals with a history of milk piompted by the current grape moved.
fever Scientists noted, however, dispute in California.
that in cows with no milk fever
histoiy. no i eduction In milk
fever incidence occurred
Dr. Hibbs says these studies
indicated to the scientists that
milk fevci cows differ mctaboli-
Cully from other cows as far as
availability of their calcium re
serves is concerned For this rea
son, either method of vitamin D
feeding for milk fever preven
tion is recommended for use
only in milk fever suspects or in
mature cows in herds where
milk fever is a seuous problem.
Nixon Asks Board On
Farm Labor Disputes
$2 3 billion more for food was
demanded by the Poor People's
Campaign in Washington this
week. The Rev. Ralph David
Abernathy addressed an empty
chair on the steps of the U S.
Department of Agriculture in
the absence of Secretary of Ag
riculture Hardin. He criticized
the farm program and said the
amount requested is no more
than that given farmers not to
grow fod. And he added, “How
can we grudgingly request
(only) $1 billion for food and
continue to spend $3O billion a
year for an unjust and immortal
war?”
The USDA came under bitter
attack from other quarters on
the hunger issue. The Select
Committee on Hunger and Mal
nutrition headed by Senator
George McGovern (D-S. D )
heard a scathing denunciation
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