Funds Allocoted For Newcastle Research The U.S. Department of Agriculture has allocated $500,000 for a seven month in tensive research program on Newcastle disease as part of the emergency program to eradicate* this exotic disease in the United States. USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), in cooperation with five universities will carry out the research, which is being funded by USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The first major outbreak of Newcastle disease in commercial poultry was in southern California in November, 1971. CALL US FOR "ON-THE-SPOT" FARM TIRE SERVICE NOTICE We now have 2 fully equipped trucks in operation for on the farm or in the field service. SWEIGART FIRESTONE 329 W. High St. Phone 665-2258 or 665-3603 Lasso plus atrazine tank mix...gels the foxtails and lots more grasses. Lots of broadleaves, too. Yellow Foxtail Lots of grasses and broadleafs want to go, Lasso plus atrazine growing in corn mean nutrients and is the way to go. Because you use moisture going to waste. Your corn less atrazine there’s less chance has to grow with “leftovers.” of carryover problems to next year’s beans. To give your corn the “full course” it needs, tank mix Lasso plus atrazine. To take care of the grasses like the foxtails, smartweed, and others. And to get pigweed, smartweed, and other broadleaves. If rotation to soybeans is how you P. L. ROHRER & BRO., INC. Smokrtown, Pa. The potential dissemination to other states constitutes a real danger to producers, shippers, slaughterers and others con cerned with the poultry industry. Newcastle disease can occur in all avian species. Prime research goals are: developing a faster diagnostic test for the disease; determining a program for protecting im mature birds; determining criteria for lifting the present ban on imported birds; and establishing when the virus can be transmitted by infected vaccinated birds at various stages of infection. s - v\ N \ Manheim, Pa. Green Foxtail That’s what you expect from your herbicide! UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE - 1973 FARM SAFE’ CAMPAIQI Of the $500,000, $lBO,OOO will be used to construct a security type isolation facility at ARS’ Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, Athens, Ga., and $lOO,OOO for increased technical support within ARS. The five cooperating univer sities, principal investigator, research area and level of sup port are: University of California, Davis, Giant Foxtail ““"Monsanto 397-3539 in your work R.A. Bankowski, vaccine evaluation in turkeys, $40,000; University of Georgia, Athens, Stanley Eleven, vaccine evaluation in broilers, $60,000; Sinai Medical School, New York, N.Y., Gertrude Schloer, an tigenic characterization of Likeliest spot for trouble when a doorbell stops work ing is the pushbutton. Re move it with a screwdriver. Both wires should be con nected firmly to the termi nal screws behind the but ton. If one is off you have found the trouble right away. If both wires are properly connected, hold the screw driver so that it touches both terminals at the same time. If you can hear the bell ring. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 24,1973 Fix-It Tip disease virus isolates, $40,000; Texas A&M, College Station, Charles Hall, vaccine evaluation in laying hens, $20,000; and University of Wisconsin, Madison, R. P. Hanson, characterization of the immune response in chickens, $60,000. the trouble is with the push button. A new button should be installed. They are inex pensive. If the trouble is not at that end, then you will have to check the electrical source. Ordinary house current is too strong for a doorbell so the high voltage is reduced to a smaller one by means of a transformer. We will dis cus the transformer next week. 17
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