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WENGER’S FARM
MACHINERY, INC.
So. Race St.
Myerstown, Pa.
Ph. 717-866-2138
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E. SAUDER & SONS
R.D.I, East Earl
HERSHEY BROS.
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WHITE OAK MILL
R D. 4, Manheim
STEVENS FEED MILL.
INC.
Stevens, Pa
PARADISE SUPPLY
Paradise
FOWL'S FEED SERVICE
R.D.2, Peach Bottom
i &
Land-based Screwworm Fly
Production Facility Planned
The joint Mexico-U.S. Com
mission for the Eradication of
Screwworms approved a plan to
construct a sterile fly-rearing
factory on land rather than on
salvaged naval vessels as had
previously been considered.
Meeting at the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture’s (USDA)
sterile fly production factory at
Mission. Tex., May 14-15, the
'Commission also tentatively
approved a proposed operating
budget for fiscal year 1974 of
$8,670,225, and administrative
regulations to guide the Com
mission staff in its campaign to
eradicate screwworms-a serious
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Quarryville, Pa. Phone 786-3521
H.M. STAUFFER
&SONS, INC.
Witmer
JE’MAR FARM
SUPPLYING.
Lawn—Ph: 964-3444
If. JACOB HOOBER
Intercourse, Pa.
.ROHRER’S MILL
R.D.I, Ronks
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Terre Hill YOUR LIVESTOCK AND
POULTRY HEALTHY
pest of livestock-from Mexico
and the southwestern United
States.
The Commission was
established and the joint
eradication program authorized
under an international
agreement signed Aug. 28, 1972,
by the Secretaries of Agriculture,
Earl L. Butz from the U. S., and
Manuel Bernardo Aguirre from'
Mexico. The Commission’s first
meeting was held Feb. 6 and 7 in
Mexico City, shortly after the 10
members had been designated by
their respective governments.
Mexican and U. S. agricultural
and veterinary officials are
MOUNTVILLE
FEED SERVICE
P D. 2, Columbia
DUTCHMAN FEED
MILLS, INC.
R.D.I, Stevens
GRUBB SUPPLY CO.
Elizabethtown
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 26,1973
equally represented on the
Commission-two of whom serve
as full-time director and co
director.
Officials of USDA’s Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service
(APHIS) explained that
screwworms-the larvae of the
screwworm fly-are a deadly
parasite of warm-blooded
animals. They feed on the living
flesh of host animals, which they
attack through open wounds or
sores
The principal weapon being
used to eradicate the screwworm
is the artificial raising of millions
of screwworm flies, sterilizing
them with radiation, and
releasing these sterilized flies by
low-flying aircraft to mate with
native flies. Such matings
produce eggs that will not hatch.
Since the female fly mates only
once in her lifetime, the natural
reproduction of screwworms can
be stopped when enough sterile
flies are released to mate with
fertile native flies
The revised plan to build a
sterile fly-rearing factory on land
in southern Mexico was proposed
by the Commission’s co-directors
following a study of updated
engineering surveys, which in
dicated that substantial in
creases in construction costs
would be incurred under the
original plan to use salvaged
naval vessels docked on the coast
of Mexico at Salina Cruz. The
Commission discussed possible
sites for such a land-based fly
factory, but a decision on its
location was scheduled for the
next meeting.
Under the proposed operating
budget approved at this meeting
by the Commission-80 percent of
which will be funded by the U.S.,
and 20 percent by Mexico-actual
construction of the factory is
scheduled to begin in December
1973 or January 1974, When
completed and in full operation,
the factory will produce 300
million sterilized flies for aerial
release each week.
The goal of the Commission is
to expand the release of sterilized
flies throughout southern Mexico.
As the screwworm is eliminated
from Mexico, a new barrier zone
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Sinoketown, Pa.
can be maintained across the 135-
mile wide Isthmus of Tehuan
tepec in southern Mexico, to
replace the present 2,000-mile
barrier zone along the U.S.-
Mexican border. This would
reduce the cost of screwworm
protection to American and
Mexican livestock industries to
about one-fourth its present cost
At this, its first meeting in the
U.S , the Commission recognized
the extensive work done by the
Southwest Animal Health
Research Foundation to bring
about the joint screwworm
eradication program SWAHRF’s
Board of Trustees, represented
by T. A Kincaid of San Antonio,
Texas, and Dr Robeit L An
derson of Marshall, Texas,
hosted the Commission at a
dinner Monday evening, May 14
Commission members from the
United States are
-- Dr. Clayton, Yeutter,
assistant secretary of
Agriculture for marketing and
consumer services.
-- Dr Francis J. Mulhern,
administrator of USDA’s Animal
and Plant Health Inspection
Service.
- Dr Ernest E. Saulmon,
APHIS associate deputy ad
ministrator for veterinary ser
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