DlO—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 28,1981 Brief answers to short questions Sheila's Shorts By Sheila Miller The ‘real’ thing? With all the mutation this-and that’s floating around the market place these days, it’s hard for consumers to know what is real and what is fake Sc'nei /Ties, as long as there is a trace of a natural product included in an otherwise totally synthetic material, the manufacturer labels the product under the guise of Mother Nature And many times you have to look closely at something, take shoes for instance, to even realize what you’re buying is man-made Just recently, my husband was trying on some work boots which looked and felt like leather But, when we looked inside the boot we read All Man-Made Materials’ 1 guess we should have been tipped off by the price tag but, then again, everybody is glad to get a - ieal’ bargain In the food department, it gets a PAUL B. PAUL B. ZIMMERMAN, INC. Box 128 RD #4 LitiU PA 17543 Wood Corner Rd 1 Mile West of Ephrata Phone 717 738-1121 Hardware • Farm Supplies Custom Manufacturing Crane Service little tougher to actually see what s imitation, unless the manufacturer spells it out in bold letters on the package As a result, industries, like the dairy industry, have come up with labels, like the ADI s REAL seal, to identify those products that use strictly milk and milk byproducts as ingredients What about clothing'' Manufacturer’s labels generally spell out what percent ot the material is synthetic But what about homemade materials like wool spun and woven into gorgeous yardage ’ That was a question 1 received from Ellen Utermoehlen. She writes 1 weave and use wool from our own flock and would like to use the Woolmark logo on the tag ot the finished product. How would 1 get permission 1 to use it? I wrote to the Wool Education SIMEWIIOOi CUSTOM BUILT BARN EQUIPMENT ★ LOOP STALLS (Southern Style Channel Front Welded Front) ★ STANDARD FREE STALLS ★ GATES (3B" 48" 54" High) ★ AUTOMATIC GATE LATCHES ★ FENCING ★ FEED THRU FENCING Center in Denver with no response. I surely wouldn't want to do anything illegal in using it without permission. But how do 1 go about tmding out what is legal and what isn't/ To try and find an answer tot you, I checked with Joan Liesau ot the Pennsylvania Department i Agriculture to see if slit, migm know where you could get per mission Joan raises sheep and is quite invoked in shearing, spin ning, and weaving She referred me to Gwen Keek ot the American Sheep Producers Council (303/399-8130; Gwen, who is with the American Wool Council, informed me the Woolmark is a licensed trademark ot the in ternational Wool Secretariat, U S Division Wool Bureau in order to use the trademark, your business must be licensed with the Wool Bureau For more information on how to obtain a license, contact Tom Haas, vice president, 360 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York, 10017, 212/986-6222 I hope you have more luck reaching him than 1 had he must be a busy man Clean up your act Normally, 1 don’t bother to answer anonymous questions trom readers. But this week I'm making an exception The letter, written March 11 on a Anything other than BAYMIX Crumbles is only a one-cow solution to a whole herd problem THE LOGIC BEHIND WHOLE HERD DEWORMING In an unwormed dairy herd, all animals deposit worm eggs on the farm and all animals are subject to further recontamination from infective larvae as herd parasitism continues unchecked. m\ m' * ♦ . .M.r WIO ItY COV 1 Ia" *s/\\ m- J,. *t After whole herd deworming with Baymix, egg deposition is dramati cally reduced, and as a result herd recontamination is also signifi- cantly reduced with herd produc tive efficiency maintained. In fact, a recent study shows a benefit of 4.8 ibs./miik/cow/day average when cows are dewormed as late as 200 days into lactation despite the fact they were dewormed at freshening ©BAYMIX IS AVAILABLE AT YOUR LOCAL NEW HOLLAND SUPPLY DEALER sheet ui ellun 1 apei, i ead On Wednesday, March 11, 1 visited the Leesport Auction. As 1 was sitting there for about one hour, I saw calves being dragged across the ring. A 100- pound pig was dragged into the ring and nobody would buy n because it was 90 percent dead. All kinds ot detormed and ruptured pigo one 500 pound steer with its rectum hanging out the ring floor was so dirty, it wasn’t cleaned tor a couple ot weeks. Farmers were buying heiter calves to take back to the tarm. God knows what disease they took back. How come there is no state in spection of these places? Alter what you saw that Wed nesday, 1 can understand why you teel there is no inspection being done But actually there is both state and federal obviously with room tor improvement I spoke to Dr John Moore, chief veterinarian ot the federal Animal Plant Health inspection Service in Harrisburg concerning the letter He informed me the APHIS field personnel support the Penn sylvania Department ot Agriculture s staff in carrying out inspections ot local livestock markets Unfortunately, he pointed out, there are tar more auction bams than inspectois Auction yards opeiale at a last m' m' /WKt ttts 1 HHcnn \imu_t *l«wT 4 **«»£ rTST MFJUM 4^ m m' m 6 * IV W tempo there's a lot ot scurrying around and slamming ot gates, Moore said - Ahd, some farmers attempt to salvage their animals that are sick or worn out with callous disregard It’s like the old machine that starts balking when you go to stai t it it soon goes to the junk yard it it lakes too much time to tix. it s the same in the livestock industry we have good and poor mechanics Dr Max Vanßuskirk, chiet veterinarian tor the state’s. Bureau ot Animal Industries., explained there are regional employees assigned to inspect the auction yards throughout the state. But, he added, they can t be at every auction, every day When our inspector sees animals like those described in the letter, they re supposed to tag them and see they are disposed ot propei ly, he said Both veterinarians encouraged anyone noticing these conditions, at auction bams, to leport the in cidents, to either their tegional ottices or to the state ottices in Harrisburg In the case ot auctions in southeast Pennsylvania, reports should be called into the Ixinsdale Regional Ottice at 215/db«-JOOO The Buieau ot Animal industues telephone numbei is /17/7&5-SJOI, and the APHIB ottice can be reached by telephoning /17/787- blOl In a herd dewormed only at freshening, an average of 10 out of 12 animals have not been dewormed. Because egg deposition has not been signifi cantly reduced, and because of infective larvae already present on the farm, ail animals are sub ject to heavy further recontamination. * l(V'-U 1 X ECES IM s'* m /un« »f»««'C u(|¥ * -t JtFTEtHTHOLE r--' > HEW soiarm » ,-—,6 /| \ 'W c f 4-/ A-vj
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