Ag Dept. Asks Poultry Show Ban
The Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture
has asked that all poultry
shows be canceled in the
Commonwealth at least
through Sept. 30, because of
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an outbreak of a highly
contagious and deadly
poultry disease.
Dr. Everett Denlinger,
Bureau of Animal Industry,
identified the disease as
per minute up to 400 lbs
infectious laryngotracheitis
(LT). Although harmless to
humans, LT will spread
quickly through a flock of
poultry with a mortality rate
of up to 70 percent.
Positive diagnoses of LT in
Pennsylvania have thus far
been limited to exhibition or
fancy poultry and two
commercial flocks and the
request to close scheduled
poultry shows through the
balance of this month is to
isolate it from the Com
monwealth’s huge broiler
and egg industry, accounting
for nearly 20 percent of this
state’s billion dollar
agriculture economy.
All chickens, pheasants,
turkeys and peafowl entered
in poultry shows after Sept.
30, including the Farm Show
in January, must be ac
companied with an en
dorsement from a
veterinarian that the birds
have been vaccinated
against LT at least four
weeks prior to the opening of
The show. Revaccination
must take place as least once
each year.
The Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture is
also recommending that all
commercial and hobby
poultrymen take steps now
to protect their flocks from
the spread of LT and, in
effect, eliminate the disease
in the Commonwealth.
Hog
The procedure includes
precautions against the
spread of LT by visitors to
farms; getting replacement
pullets only from healthy,
non-exposed sources and
vaccination where actual LT
outbreaks is a repeated
problem.
Pa. Bureau of Forestry
Needs Forest Patrolmen
The State Civil Service
Commission is currently
accepting applications for
forest lookout and forest
patrolman to fill about 175
vacancies in the Bureau of
Forestry of the Department
of Environmental Resour
ces.
At the same time, the
Commission announced
cancellation of examinations
for laboratroy assistant and
X-ray assistant because
sufficient applicants have
qualified to fill present and
anticipated vacancies. The
effective date of cancellation
is September 13, 1974.
Applications for forest
lookout and forest patrolman
will be accepted con
tinuously and lists of eligible
applicants established
periodically. A written test is
not required for the
positions.
Applicants must be
Pennsylvania residents and
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Sept. 14,1974
must have completed the
eighth grade. No experience
is required for forest
lookout; candidates for
forest patrolman must have
had at least three months of
forest fire work experience.
Those applying for forest
patrolman must also have a
valid driver’s license.
Forest lookouts and forest
patrolmen are hired during
the dry periods, usually from
mid-March through May and
from mid-October to the first
snowfall. Approximately 45
vacancies for forest lookouts
and 130 vacancies for forest
patrolmen exist throughout
the Commonwealth.
Applications, examination
announcements, and further
information may be obtained
from State Civil Service
Commission offices in
Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, and
Philadelphia, or from local
offices C the Pennsylvania
State Employment Service.
Heart Association
Offers Stroke Book
Booklets designed to help
in the rehabilitation of the
stroke patient at home are
available from the American
Heart Association, Lan
caster Pennsylvania
Chapter, with a doctor's
prescription.
“Strike Back At Stroke,’’
shows what can be done at
home to help prevent or
overcome disability that
sometimes develops after a
stroke. It expalins how to
make the patient most
comfortable in bed; advises
what to do if he cannot
speak; and illustrates
exercises that can be done,
with the doctor’s approval,
to help the patient.
A suppliment booklet, “Up
and Around,” is designed to
aid the stroke patient in the
activities of daily living. This
booklet has been developed
to help doctors, therapists,
and families teach a stroke
patient how to take care of
his daily needs.
A third booklet, “Do It
Yourself Again,” illustrates
a wide variety of equipment
designed to meet the needs of
stroke patients at different
stages of recovery. Some of
these devices can be made
by the handyman, others are
available commercially.
For more information
about these booklets, contact
the American Heart
Association, Lancaster
Pennsylvania Chapter, at 246
West Orange Street, Lan
caster, Pennsylvania 17603.
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