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Summertime Mastitis
Severe mastitis outbreaks
often occur during hot
summer months as a result
of heat stress on dairy cows.
Cows which are milking
heavily simply lose
resistance to mastitis
causing organisms when
they suffer the double
burden of hard work and
excessive heat and humidity.
In many cases it is ad
visable to bring the herd into
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Chestnut Hill Gail Lady V.G.
3Y 337 21027 864 4.11
4Y 305 22473 870 3 87
She is Ml9B F 209% of BCA
which equals 23568 M 913 F.
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Train to Breed Your Own Cows
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the barn where there is
adequate ventilation and
protection from the sun and
flies during the hottest part
of the day. The dairyman
who is most concerned about
the comfort of his milk cows
and does something about it
will have healthier and more
productive cows as a direct
result.
Of course summertime
mastitis can also be caused
by the more “classic”
methods such as improper
feeding, careless and im
proper milking techniques,
faulty milking equipment
and dirty environment. Let’s
not aggravate these con
ditions with the additional
summertime problem of
cows in the farm pond and in
pasture stream.
Good dairymen control the
mastitis complex and keep
other “management”
diseases in check by ad
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ministering a health dose of
“cowmanshlp” into their
management.
Pink Eye In Cattle
Infectious pink eye can be
a serious, very troublesome
problem in Pennsylvania
cattle herds.
Dairy herds which receive
regular fly treatment rarely
develop serious pink eye
problems, but pink eye can
be quite serious in beef
breeding herds and in dairy
heifers on summer pasture.
Unfortunately, there is no
way at present to vaccinate
cattle against pink eye. Until
recently the only means for
control and treatment was
regular fly control dusting or
spraying antibiotics into
infected eyes, and keeping
cattle in a dark bam during
bright sunny days.
In the past few years
veterinarians have been
injecting a cortesosteroid -
antibiotic drug into the cattle
eye membranes of early
cases with 100 percent
success.
Where pink eye breaks out
in a herd, cattle should be
moved through a chute and
sprayed for flies, examined
and treated every other day.
Any delay starting pink eye
treatment can assist the
disease 'in getting well
enough established so that it
will remain in the heed for
weeks and some cattle will
Crescendo Ada V.G. Memramcook Belle
3Y 305 15384 528 5Y 305 19402 656
She is M 154 FI 44% of BCA She is Ml6B-F154% of BCA which
which is 18331 M 629 F converts to 19997 M 673 F.
come permanently blind as a
result.
In spite of all the press
accounts of the comeback
being made by brucellosis,
the brucellosis picture in
Pennsylvania and nor
theastern United States
continues to be good, ac
cording to Dr. Samuel B.
Guss, Extension
veterinarian at Penn State.
Both the milk ring test of
all herds producing milk and
slaughter house blood test of
up to 10,000 beef type cows
per month are revealing
incidence of practically no
brucellosis in Pennsylvania
cattle herds.
A program begun recently
by the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture
to blood test swine at
slaughter has revealed only
two reactors of nearly three
thousand swine tested.
The most important source
of brucellosis for Penn
sylvania cattle and swine
herds is the purchase of new
animals from out-of-state
sources. Pennsylvania
farmers who add new
animals to their herds
without having them
retested for tuberculosis and
brucellosis play Russian
roulette with their herds.
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High Dally Butterfat Averages
FIRST 305 DAYS OF LACTATION
WITH 670 OR MORE POUNDS OF BUTTERFAT
Owner - Name Age Days Milk Test Fat
Jacob S. Dienner
RH 36 29.0
Henry E. Kettering
RH 26
49.1
Amos & Eleanor Hershey
R&GrH 29
Leßoy M. Oberholtzer
R&GrH 30 43.7
J. Rohrer Witmer
R&GrH 33 8.0
Herbert & Rhelda Royer
9 54.0
RH
Edgefield Farms
R&GrH 29 57.7
Allan R. Shoemaker
R&GrH 30
Nelson E. Martin
RH 28
Ben K. Stoltzfus
R&GrH 29
J. Earl Horst
Mix
26
Benuel F. Stoltzfus
Mix 31
Henry B. Leaman
R&GrH 22
J. Rohrer Witmer
RBrSw 33
Harry S. Aungst
Rh 60
Ivan Hursh
R&GrH 35
Rufus G. Martin
RH 31
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65.6
99.6
53.1
94.7
47.0
27.7
92.5
51.4
98.7
50.6
100.0
48.3
86.2
48.0
96.5
53.5
38.5
95.2
49.6
37.0
87.8
49.5
34.0
96.7
54.0
33.0
97.0
50.0
26.9
88.7
29.8
94.4
45.5
44.3
45.1
97.4
57.4
91.8
46.9
45.7
38.8
94.7
48.3
80.6
27.2
19
2.18
2.15
2.06
2.03
2.02
1.96
1.96
1.93
1.89
1.89
1.88
1.88
1.87
1.87
1.85
1.82
1.82