A44—Lancaster Fanrsint, Saturday, May 31,19 M DER adopts regulations on stream protection HARRISBURG Penn sylvania's Environmental Quality Board has adopted regulations designed to improve stream protection and to streamline procedures for air pollution sources wishing to submit alternative emission reducti plans under the federal 'bubble” policy. LANCASTER If pinkeye has been a problem in your cattle, you may have to find a new treatment this year. That’s from your gover nment. Many of the widely used pinkeye sprays have been pulled off the market, and more are expected to go. Most of the sprays include a dye - principally blues and purples - to reduce the reflection of sunlight into the eye. But FDA now claims some of the dyes are irritants, and must not be used to treat food-producing animals. The regulatory action leaves cattlemen few ef fective treatments for pinkeye, says Dr. R.C. Daniels, technical service veterinarian for Anchor La bora tones. Daniels suggests to producers that now is the best time to examine preventative management for pinkeye - through nutrition, fly control and a herd vaccination program “Generally maintain a good nutritional level so the animals can build resistance to disease,” Daniels says. Chester-Delaware FFA elects county officers MEDIA The Chester- Delaware Association of the FFA held their first FFA meeting recently. The purpose of the meeting was to elect county officers and to give county degrees. Those receiving county degrees were from O.J. Roberts Mike Jankowski, Alan Golden, Dave Collins and Daryl Guest: from Oxford, Valarie Weaver, Bonnie Lambom, Charles Alley, and Bonnie Arrowood; from Octorara Joe Gneckspore, Dale Stoltzfus, Larry Landis and Geoffry Stauffer. The highlight of the evening was the election of county officers. Winning President was Loren Ruth from O.J. Roberts; vice president, Carol Carter from Oxford; secretary, Brad Hershey from Octorara; treasurer, Kathy Soltys from O.J. Roberts; student ad -visor, Charles Astle from Oxford; reporter, Ivan Yost EQB, a 21-member panel of executive agency of ficials, legislators and citizens charged with passing DER regulations, authorized the Department of Environmental Resources to publish notices of each emission proposal from air pollution source owners and operators and to conduct Regulation may force more pinkeye prevention “That includes adequate vitamin A levels so the covering tissues are in good health.” Pinkeye is most common in late summer when grass is dry with little vitamin A precursor, and in early spring when cattle are deficient in vitamin A after winter. “Without vitamin A supplementation in the winter, a definite deficiency can develop,” Darnels says. ‘ ‘And it takes a lot of green grass m the spring to make up that deficiency. For baby calves, we recommend a vitamin A injection the first time they’re handled at birth, branding or whenever. At that time, I prefer the vitamin A-D-B 12 com bination, because vitamin B stimulates the produc tion of red blood cells. With more red blood cells in the calf, he’ll have better distribution of oxygen to the tissue, and that leads to better metabolism and better utilization of nutrients. “With better utilization of nutrients, the calf will have a from Octorara; sentinel, •Dean Maser from Octorara; and chaplain, Bonnie Lamborn from Oxford. Reported by Ivan Yost. grass or low 18 acres a day The reason it s designed around the exclusive Yazoo Transaxle Add the famous Yazoo longevity and you ve got something you should look into It costs about half as much as a tractor with mowing rig Comes with 76 60 48 4? or 36 cut Other attachments available public hearings on the proposed plans and regulations. The board reserved final authority to adopt, deny or modify any regulatory proposal which might result. Proposed by U.S. En vironmental Protection Agency, the “bubble” policy gives air pollution sources better appetite. So you start a circle very much in favor of the profitability of the operation.” Traditionally pinkeye has been associated with “Moraxella bovis”, a bac terium transmitted by face flies. So fly control continues to be an important part of pinkeye prevention. Dust bags seem to be the most practical continuous method of fly control, Daniels says. While backrubbers may provide some protection, application is usually limited to the back. When an animal tuts a dust bag, the dust will cover the face, back and sides. Also, calves get dusted while nursing because dust falls from the cow. Dust bags should be hung near loitering spots m the pasture - in shade and near water - or in a gateway the cattle pass through daily. In addition to the bacterial causes of pinkeye, a com mon cattle virus - IBR (Rednose) - can cause a condition resembling pinkeye. Infection of the eye by IBR can also damage surface tissues and allow bacterial infections to get started. “IBR vims is responsible for a significant percentage of pinkeye infections in cattle,” Daniels says. “If we vaccinate for IBR we reduce the incidence of viral causes of eye irritation, and thereby reduce the in cidence of secondary bac the right to determine how they will meet federal and state air quality criteria by placing an “invisible bub ble” around each plant. The owner or operator then determines how to offset pollution from a poorly controlled source with other plant sources whose terial infections that lead to extensive pinkeye in fections.” Daniels recommends an annual IBR vaccination for the cow herd and replacement heifers as part of an overall herd health program. If your cattle develop pinkeye, the first step in treatment is to wash the eye free of foreign matter. Then try to protect it from ex ternal irritants - insects, dust and sunlight. 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Aquatic life, as well as water irrigation uses, are expected to benefit from the board’s incorporation of specific conductance criteria into its regulations governing total dissolved solids. EQB also modified its nitrite-nitrate standard, designed to protect drinking water, to include a section spelling out the cir cumstances under which the criterion is to be applied. Both water regulation change proposals were aired at public hearings. Seven public hearing dates were set by EQB to discuss various other environmental regulation change proposals it approved for publication this week. Erie City Council cham bers, Erie, will be the scene of the first hearing at 6 p.m. June S when proposed regulations establishing bluff recession and setback controls will be reviewed. Act 48, recently adopted by the Legislature, sets the groundwork for these regulations which will be designed to protect coastal areas from the interlocking Material Center a over your roof. 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