Deadly poison on trees Wild cherry or choke cherry leaves damaged by frost can be deadly to cows or sheep if they are eaten. Glucocides containing hydrocyanic add are formed within the leaves following frost. Also a threat to cattle are acorns. Only a handful of wilted wild cherry leaves is necessary to kill a cow or several sheep if eaten. The poison contained in the leaves interferes with the oxygen-carrying ability of the blood. Animals affected with this poison breathe rapidly, become depressed, and show cyanosis, or bluish discoloration, of the mucous membrane. Death may follow within a few minutes. Affected animals rarely linger more than a few hours if a fatal dose is consumed. CUSTOM SLAUGHTERING CATTLE & HOGS CUSTOM: Curing & Smoking CUSTOM: EMogia Making FRESH & SMOKED ffi MEATS 13 N. Market St Elizabethtown, Pa. PH: (717)-367-1246 IF YOU HAVE BEEN CONSIDERING A NEW BUILDING, NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY. MORTON BUILDINGS OFFER YOU WINTER DISCOUNTS ON . . . MACHINE SHEDS CATTLE BARNS HORSf BARNS HOG CONFINEMENT GARAGES AND SHOPS WFn ORDER A MORTON BUILDING NOW FOR SPRING ERECTION AND SAVE. wFjS mw PRICES WILL NEVER BE LOWER THAN NOW. IV Morton buildings RD4Box 34A Gettysburg, Pa. 17325 Ph: 717-334-216 S Box 126Phillipsburg, N.J. 06865 | I Ph: 201-454-7900 I Telephone No I V «, , J Veterinarians using emergency intravenous treatment are able to save some animals. Time is the essence so it is most im portant that treatment be given as soon as possible. Wild or choke cherry trees in pastures are a constant threat to farm livestock. They can exist for years without causing any losses, then a broken limb or an early hard frost makes available enough deadly poison to kill a half dozen cows or a whole flock of sheep. The best way to get rid of the problem is to remove the trees. Tree removal should be done in late fall or winter. After the trees have lost all their leaves, then it is safe to cut them down or pull them out. Keep livestock away from these trees as long as any leaves remain on them. WINTER DISCOUNTS NOW IN EFFECT TO FIND OUT ... WRITE OR CALL TODAY! Heavy crops of acorns pose a real threat of acom poisoning for cattle in some areas of Pennsylvania every Fall. Cattle are very fond of acorns and they will spend hours searching for them. Sprouted a corns appear to be more poisonous to cattle than are unsprouted ones. Small amounts of acorns usually cut down milk production severely and the cattle show no other symp toms. When cattle eat larger amounts, they show con stipation first and this is followed by a severe diarrhea. Animals then rapidly lose weight from severe dehydration and they may die even with veterinary treatment. One of the most un fortunate things about the mildest exposure to acorns is that milk production usually does not return until the cow freshens again. The mildest form of acom poisoning can thus cause a 50 per cent or more loss of milk for a whole lactation if the acorns are eaten by a fall freshening cow. Progress reported on soil surveys LANCASTER, Pa. - The start of a nationwide program to identify best agricultural lands and the publishing of three coun tywide soil survey reports are among the ac complishments of the USDA, Soil Conservation Service | 1 1 Send information on MORTON Square Post Buildings. I !□ Have your salesman phone me for an appointment I NAME | ADDRESS Maryland Tobacco Authority seeks new funding ability CHELTENHAM, Md. - The Maryland Tobacco Authority, after meeting with growers, buyers and warehousemen, will seek legislation that in the words of its executive secretary JohnSchillinger, “to put the authority on a sounder financial footing and enable it to cope with inflation and short crops.” Schillinger, a Severn, Md. tobacco grower, says, “the additional funding ability for the authority is needed if the authority is to continue to serve the tobacco industry in Maryland. Our expenses have been growing and we must have the means to raise additional revenue.” The Authority proposes to increase its license fees for buyers, sellers and warehouse agents by roughly 50 per cent. during the past year, reports Art Kuhl, State Soil Scientist. Field work on the iden tification of best agricultural lands was completed in Adams, Columbia and Erie Counties. Cartographic map work is now nearing com pletion. Best agricultural Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Nov. 27,1976 However, the biggest proposed change in the legislation is involved with doing away with the traditional “basket tax” of ten cents and substituting a per pound tax that would work on a sliding scale to be set each year depending on the projected size of the crop going to market. As outlined in the bill, the poundage tax would have a ceiling of one-tenth of a cent per pound. The rate to be set by the authority each year prior to the auction season depending on how much revenue the authority needs during its next fiscal year balanced against the size of the crop. Tobacco crops in Maryland vary greatly at the mercy of the weather. In recent years, crops have lands maps should be available for these counties in December, adds Kuhl. During the coming year, field work on similar best agricultural lands studies will be carried out at seven more Pennsylvania counties. These counties are Berks, Bucks, Montgomery, Chester, Delaware, Philadelphia, and Lan caster. Best agricultural lands are determined through the use of soil survey information, as well as climate and other physical features. Published soil survey reports are now available in Lancaster County, reports come in at a low of about 21 million pounds to a high of approximately 30 million pounds while the acreage planted has remained more or less constant at 23,000 acres. \ “In October we held a meeting attended, by growers, Farm Bureau leaders from the five tobacco producing counties (Anne Arundel, Calvert Charles, St. Mary’s and Prince George’s) warehousemen and buyers. All agreed to the proposal which will now go to the General Assembly for approval. The bill will go in as an emergency measure, meaning that it will, hopefully) be passed into law and put into effect by the time the crop goes to market in early April 1977,” Schillinger concluded. Don Holzer, Soil Scientist. These surveys are used by fanners and other lan downers as a basis in planning, and installing practices to prevent soil erosion and water pollution. Local governments are using soil surveys to plan future land use, and developers are using sod surveys to prepare environmentally sound commercial and residential areas. Soil survey in formation is available in Lancaster County by con tacting the Soil Conservation Service, Farm and Home Center, 1383 Arcadia Road,s Room 4, Lancaster, Pa. 69
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