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—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. March 24. 1973
Vets Meet
At Quentin
The Veterinary Nutrition
Forum met at the Quentin
Riding Club, Quentin, Pa. with 25
members present. Dr. Len R
Harrison, of the Bureau of
Animal Industries Diagnostic
Laboratory, discussed "Calf
Problems, with Particular
Emphasis on Salmonellosis’’.
In 1972, over 100 cases of calf
Salmonellosis were reported and
all were confirmed by isolating
the pathogenic agent. Some 70
percent of the isolates were
Salmonella tiphimurium. This
organism is übiquitous and
stubborn and it can persist in the
environment for long periods of
time It was isolated from nearly
all calves with peracute “sudden
death” disease. These cases
usually do not respond to com
mon antibiotics and other
chemotherapeutic agents. From
20 to 40 percent mortality among
the calves is not uncommon.
Salmonellosis at times is ac
companied by respiratory
complications (pneumoenteritis)
with more severe mortalities.
Dr Harrison said that a
number of recoveries were noted
with application of ampicillm but
the drug of choice is gentamycin
The penicillins, streptomycins,
sulfonamides and tetracyclines
were invariably ineffective. The
activity of mtrofurans was found
to be erratic and it was the
speaker’s opinion that in very
young calves these agents may
be toxic with severe adverse side
effects
A number of calves died
showing respiratory phenomena.
These calves had a non
productive cough, dyspnoea, they
were breathing with open mouth
At necropsy, pneumonia lessions
were observed and Mycoplasma
and Pasteurella were isolated
from primary cultures. The drug
of choice in Dr Harrison’s ex
perience was tetracycline
Starvation is another major
calf killer Calves should be
properly fed, especially during
the first few days of their
existence
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The U.S. Department of
Agriculture announced the ex
pansion of the office of the U.S.
agricultural attache in Moscow,
U.S.S.R. with the addition of an
assistant agricultural attache.
With the new assistant
agricultural attache, the
agricultural attache office will
consist of three U.S. professional
staffers
Agricultural trade between the
United States and the Soviet
Union has risen sharply in the
past two years. Following
President Nixon’s relaxation of
shipping requirements of U.S.
agricultural commodities in 1971,
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Since July, 1972, the Soviet
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U.SS.R TheU.S.SR is expected
to continue as an important
market for U.S. feedgrains,
soybeans and soybean products.
Serving in the newly created
at the Stockyard Inn, Lancaster,
Pa. The speaker will be Dr.
Fredrick W. Oehme, Associate
Professor of Toxicology and
Medicine and Director of the
Comparative Toxicology
Laboratory, College of
Veterinary Medicine, Kansas
State University. Dr. Oehme will
speak on “Toxic Hazards in
Animal Feeds”.
position will be A. Paul Danyluk,
presently a member of the
Program Development Staff of
the Foreign Agircultural Service.
Danyluk previously served as
assistant agricultural attache in
Rome, Italy from 1967 to 1971,
and as acting attache in Warsaw,
Poland on two temporary
assignments.
He joined the Department of
Agriculture in 1962, after working
as an editor-compiler for the
Hart President Of
Rough Riders Club
The Rough Riders 4-H Club met
March 14 to elect new officers
following a movie on hor
semanship.
The new president is Lynn
Hart. Frances Tice is vice
president; Hope Bailey,
treasurer, Heidi Bailey,
secretary; Kim Bradley, news
reporter, Elizabeth Abel, game
chairman
County Council representative
is the ex-president, Nancy
Henkel
There was an age limit of over
14 years of age on the offices,
except news reporter and game
chairman After the election
refreshments were served and
the meeting was adjourned.
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