C32—Lancaster .'arming, Saturday, December 6,1980
Shropshire breeders
(Continued from Page C3l
found most sheep producers
reluctant to call a vet, and
mere than half felt
veterinary services were not
economically beneficial
Sadly, most diseases are
diagnosed by the shepherd,
not by a professional. In
many of these on-the-farm
homestyle diagnoses the
conclusion is wrong. The
lamb that was thought to
have died from overeating
disease could very well have
died from ruminal ulcers or
the sheep that was thought to
have had circling disease
may well have had thiamine
deficiency
The hope that the Penn
sylvama-Maryland Shrops
hire breeders project is that
the employment of an ovine
specialist at the veterinary
school will produce better
trained veterinarians and
provide answers through
research to some of the
sheep industry’s most
devastating disease
problems
Perhaps in the future pre
lambing treatment of the
ewe could reduce the
number of dead lambs.
Using something like the
dry-cow treatment, there
may be a way to reduce
mastitis infections in lac
tatmg ewes Perhaps an
immunization against
listeriosis (circling disease)
may be developed
Foot rot may be a thing of
the past with new treat
ments, and there may even
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approach to worm problems
Since the Shropshire
breeders began pushing for
an ovine specialist, the
Veterinary School has made
an effort to improve its
teaching of ovine medicine
A sheep management course
has been added. A Sheep
Health Forum for producers
was held last August and
attended by an overflow
crowd Dr Cohn Johnstone,
chief parasitologist, has
begun a study of worm
problems in local flocks All
faculty are making a special
effort to include sheep
problems in the r lectures
All this is good, b’lt Mrs
Menhennett says she
believes sheep producers
won’t have the quality of
v etennary care that is
required until there is at
least one specialist who can
really concentrate on
learning about sheep and
begin researching sheep
health problems
Veterinary professors who
work 90 percent of the time
with cows aren’t going to be
able to attain the level of
expertise that is required
It is a mistake, Mrs
Menhennett says, for vets to
assume sheep problems are
just like those of cattle The
problems of the sheep may
be analogous but they are
not similar
The sheep is not a two
teated, wooly, miniature
cow
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Stillwagen wins state vo-ag idea contest
SCHNECKSVILLE -
Frederic H Stillwagen,
vocational agriculture
teacher at the Lehigh County
Vo-Tech School at
Schnecksville, has been
named the state winner of
the National Vocational
Agriculture Teachers
Association-Ruritan Natio
nal “Ideas Unlimited
Contest” for 1980 in Penn
sylvania.
The contest sponsored by
Runtan National is designed
to give NVATA members,
who " L"
This project board, developed by Lehigh County
vo-ag teacher Frederic Stillwagen, won his the
state Ideas Unlimited contest.
an opportunity to exchange
classroom, FFA, and other
teaching ideas A criteria for
the contest is an explanation
of how the idea was used by
the contestant and how it
could help others
Stillwagen’s winning idea
was a Production Project
Record Boaid. This record
board constructed of peg
board with interchangeable
signs is an ideal shop project
for students. Being a ver
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used to develop shop skills,
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The manuscripts of the
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