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Kuhfuss
Hearings should be held to
establish the safety and
value of diethylstllbestrol
(DES) in feeding slaughter
cattle, according to William
J. Kuhfuss, president of the
American Farm Bureau
Federation. In a letter to the
U. S. Food and Drug Ad
ministration, Kuhfuss
protested proposed changes
in regulations for the use of
DES in cattle feeding saying
that changes should be made
only after careful deter
mination of the facts through
open hearings.
Kuhfuss asked that
hearings be held to deter
mine the value and safety of
DES and the scientific facts
on whether it is really
necessary to increase the
withdrawal period for the
drug from 7 to 14 days.
He said, in a letter to the U.
S. Food and Drug Ad
ministration (FDA), that
there is no documentation of
conclusive, scientific
evidence that the substance
is in fact harmful to con-'
sumers when it is used under
FDA established livestock
feeding levels and when
withdrawn as presently
required.
Kuhfuss also said that the
American Farm Bureau
vigorously opposes
Urges Open Hearings on DES
revocation of established that the FDA must hold
testing methods until better hearings before banning use
methods can be developed, of the drug. At least two
“It is recognized that ‘no companies have since
effect’ levels for the use of returned to the manufacture
DES in feeds need to be of feed mixes containing the
established and enforced to drug and also are selling ear
protect human health,’’ he Implants,
added. Hearing dates for
Diethylstilbestrol in examination of the use of the
minute quantities has been drug have not been an*
used by many feeders in nounced but procedural
fattening cattle. The drug changes have been an*
stimulates growth and nounced. It is anticipated
produces more efficient that several months will be
gains. Generally credited required for preparations
with gains of around 10 and hearings on the use of
percent in feed efficiency,
the drug was used as an # _ ti ■
tag,.* pe™ a„d m t«d Restraining Farm Fences
The use of DES in feed was '__ '
banned January 1, 1973 and RPlTlgtQt’Pfl
ear implants were banned * I "til dill IICIIIIjIdICU
April 27, 1974 after newly °
developed and highly sen
sitive tests showed minute
traces of DES in the livers of
an occasional animal.
Manufacturers of the
chemical sued for a public
hearing to present research
data and other evidence to
support safety claims for its
use. The FDA had banned
the use of the drug without
the usual hearing procedure.
The federal Court of Ap
peals in Washington, D.C.
ruled on January 24, 1974
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FACTORY
The U. S. Department of
Agriculture today an
nounced that it is reinstating
the practice “restoring farm
fences” under the
Emergency Conservation
Measures Program ad
ministered by the depart
ment’s Agricultural
Stabilization and Con
servation Service (ASCS).
The measure was
eliminated as a program
practice March 12. It is being
reinstated retroactively,
ASCS officials said, to apply
to the recently designated
disaster areas in parts of the
South and Midwest where
tornadoes caused severe
damage to farmland.
Under Public Law 85-58,
payments may be made to
farmers who carry out
emergency measures to
rehabilitate farmlands
damaged 6y wind erosion,
floods, hurricanes* or other
natural disasters when, as a
result of the disaster, new
conservation problems have
been created. Cost sharing
for fencing is; limited to
restoring or replacing those
essential to the
rehabilitation of con
servation structures or
facilities, or essential to the
establishment of permanent
vegetative cover on areas
seriously eroded or subject
to serious erosion as a result
of the natural disaster.
The percent of cost
sharing allowed for new
materials used in restoring
or replacing a fence is based
on the general condition and
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the drug.
In commenting on the need
for improved cattle feeding
efficiency Kuhfuss said,
“Feeders have been
sustaining losses of $lOO-200
per head the past several
months. No industry can
survive long on this basis.
The continuing cost-price
squeeze faced by cattle
feeders can be eased to some
degree through more ef
ficient production with the
continued use of DES as a
growth stimulant.”
length of use of that fence
prior to the disaster.
In addition to cost sharing,
loans under the Farmers
Home Administration
Disaster Loan Program are
also available to farmers in
designated disaster areas for
the replacement of fencing
destroyed by the disaster.
Gingham-a New
Old Look
Gingham. Who doesn’t
love it? This year, Mrs.
Helen Puskar, Extension
home furnishings specialist
at The Pennsylvania State
University, says it’s not just
to wear. It is freshening up
furnishing, along with patch
work, and the Country
traditional look. Gingham
may be a tablecloth. Pat
chwork may be the style for
a comforter, slumber bag,
fun pillow or a set of rocking
chair cushions.
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