Al2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 13,1980
Avoid the Christmas crunch
YORK The Christmas
crunch hits many families as
they try to fit special holiday
activities into an already
busy daily round of
household demands. Many a
frazzled parent has been
thrown mto a state of
complete disorganization
when a young son or
daughter announces a
special Christmas program
at scuool that he or she
needs a costume, and some
cookies and Mom and Dad
have got to be there!
One way to turn your
household havoc mto a
setting where exciting ex
Horse
NORRISTOWN - Horses
heavily infested with in
ternal parasites are usually
thin, weak, tucked up in their
flanks, potbellied, rough
coated, and may frequently
suffer from attacks of colic.
A well-fed horse is not
necessarily free of parasites.
No horse is ever entirely rid
of these free-loaders.
The stomach hot is a larva
of the common hot fly and is
a prevalent parasite of
horses. The adult flies die
after the onset of fall and
frost temperatures.
The life cycle of this horse
parasite is considered one
year, with the larval stage in
the stomach of the horse
lasting eight to ten months.
The most effective control
program is one designed to
kill the larvae while in the
stomach.
Nancy Kadwill, Mon
tgomery County 4-H Coor
dinator, recommends a two
treatment program for
Pennsylvania horses The
first administration of the
worm drug should be
scheduled in December and
the second treatment in
February.
The first hot treatment
should be delayed until most
larvae have reached the
stomach in December, not
just a first frost. The second
treatment usually gets those
that were missed by the first
treatment.
Larvae do not reach the
tras are happening is
through the use of family
tune plans.
A time plan can be as
simple or a detailed as you
desire. A simple list of jobs
to be done as tune is
available is one approach,
but this is probably not
sufficient to guide a family
through peak periods. A
more detailed time plan
includes a tune sequence
without definite time limits.
A schedule brings in both
sequence and approximate
amount of time on different
activities.
Families can develop tneir
parasite treatment
can begin now
stomach until about six
weeks after batching They
burrow in the wall of the
tongue immediately after
hatching, where they stay
for up to six weeks The rest
of the larval stage is spent m
the stomach The larvae
complete their development
in the spring, explains
Kadwill
Once the larval
development is completed,
they release from the
stomach wall of the horse,
pass out with the intestinal
material and undergo
pupation on the ground. The
adult fly season begins in the
spring with the first hatch
and ends in the early fall.
Farm Calendar
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record keeping meetmg,
Lazy Boy Farm, Rt. 896,
Middletown, 7:30 pm.
Eastern Milk Producers Co-
Op CNI proposal meetmg,
Mt. View High School,
along Rt. 106, Kingsley, 8
p m
Tuesday, Dec. 16
Sussex County, Del crop
meeting, U. of Del.
Georgetown Substation,
9.30 a m. - 3 p.m.
Commodity Futures
Markets open meetmg,
small arena. New
Holland Sales Stables, 7
p.m.
Cecil County, Md. DHIA,
Extension Office, Elkton,
Md., 10a m.-3p m
Kent County small farmers
conference, Ag & Natural
Resources Bldg , rear of
Del. State campus, 7pm
Ephrata Area Young Far
mers Christmas Party,
Ephrata Junior High
auditorium, 7.30 p m.
Garden Spot Adult Farmers
silage management
meetmg, Union Grove
School, 7:30 p.m.
own schedules by answering
four basic questions. What
are the “extras” we must
include? What are the
“extras” we would like to
include’ What are the
“usuals” that must be
continued? What are the
“usuals” that can be post
poned or even eliminated
entirely’
After you and your family
have answered these
questions, you can begin to
develop a special holiday
tune plan. This is a venture
for the entire family. Each
family member needs to
know what the other
The control of stomach
hots should be one part of an
ongoing program for con
trolling internal parasites of
horses. There are several
worm drugs for horses, but
Kadwill points out that they
are not all active against the
bot. The broad spectrum
worm drugs do work against
all internal parasites-worms
and bots. Kadwill recom
mends one of these for the
December and February
treatments, or horses can be
treated separately at these
times for bot control. Either
way, it is recommended that
these programs be done by
or in consultation with your
veterinarian.
Wednesday, Dec. 17
Dairy feeding meeting, Vo-
Ag Room, Upper Adams
High School, Biglerville,
7.30 p.m
Sussex County small far
mers conference, U of
Del. Georgetown Sub
station? p.m
Thursday, Dec. 18
Pa. Seedmen’s Association,
Treadway Inn, Lan
caster, 9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Del. Commercial Peach and
Apple Growers workship,
Filer’s Orchard,
Wyoming, 10 a.m - 3:30
p.m.
N.J. annual seed, fertilizer
and pesticide dealers
meeting, Pfenninger’s
Hilltop Inn, 6 p.m
Adams County Pork
Producers meeting,
Extension Office, Get
tysburg,? 45 pm
Penn Manor Young Farmers
meeting on hedging, high
school, 7:30 p.m
Friday, Dec. 19
Lancaster County Con
servation District Board
of Directors monthly
meeting, Farm & Home
Center, 7; 30 p.m.
members have on their
minds and how important
these things are to them.
With this knowledge, you can
establish priorities that
everyone understands. Had
the parents known how
important the school
Christmas program was to
their daughter they could
have planned ahead for a
costume and cookies and
they could have attended the
program in an “unfrazzled”
state.
You can turn the Christ
mas crunch into a time of
exciting extras by thinking
ahead and developing a time
schedule with your whole
family taking part.
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The Editor
Dear Editor:
Thanks muchly for the
positive approach articles on
sludge by Sheila Miller in the
November 29 issue.
Farmers as well as
sewage plant operators need
articles like this, to help
educate the do-gooders, the
what-ifers, and the cryers
of-doom.
The risks, the potential
negatives of utilizing sludge
as fertilizer is so small
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compared with me
beneficial applications being
so large that they hardly
need to be considered.
It would seem that articles
as you printed showing
farmers utilizing sludge for
fertilizer, trace minerals,
etc. would help folks un
derstand the biological
benefits of land utilization.
Thanks again.
Marshall Haws
Westchester
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