C22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August i, 1981
NEW HOLLAND The use ot
chemical preservatives on baled
hay has been gaming in popularity
in recent years. These preser
vatives allow hay to be baled at
higher moisture levels without
spoilage. That practice, however,
may be providing potentially
dangerous conditions for farmers
and firemen called upon to battle
fires in barns where some
chemically treated hay is stored.
According to a recent article
published in the National Hay
Association Newsletter, more than
100 volunteer firemen required
hospital treatment after battling a
recent barn fire in New York state
The hay in the barn had been
treated with a hay preservative
containing ethoxyqum and BHT
Both are individually recognized
as safe with several common uses
in agriculture. However, when
combined as a hay preservative
and heated to 240 degrees, the
mixture gave off hydrogen cyanide
gas.
According to Donald A. Drum,
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Year’s egg production
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HARRISBURG - June, 1981 egg
production in Pennsylvania totaled
335 million, according to the
Pennsylvania Crop Reporting
Service.
The June production was down
one percent from the 339 million
eggs produced during June, 1980.
The June average ot 16 million
layers was one percent higher than
a year ago Egg production per 100
layers was 2,100 compared with
Fires
Columbia-Greene Community
College, in Hudson, N.Y., there
were several factors that
prevented a serious loss ot life at
the barn tire. There was adequate
ventilation above the burning hay
and all ot the hay was not yet
ignited. Fuemen had wet down
many ot the bales preventing a rise
in temperature in most ot the
remaining hay.
Drum and Paul Rappleyea, a
Syracuse University student, in
vestigated the tire and have this
advice to tire fighters:
Check to see it any and what type
ot preservatives have been used on
the hay stored in a burning barn
Hay treated with commonly-used
propionic acid did not give ott
hydrogen cyanide when heated in
tests. However, the hay treated
with the ethoxyqum/BHT formula
showed dramatic increases in
concentrations ot hydrogen
cyanide as the temperature ot the
burning hay rose.
' Hydrogen cyanide is one ot the
fastest acting fatal poisons known
to man. When gaseous hydrogen
2,1J7 in June, 1980.
The nation’s laying flocks
produced 5.56 billion eggs during
June 1981, fractionally less than
the 5 58 billion produced a year
ago The number ot layers during
June averaged 279 million com
pared with 280 million a year
earlier. Egg production per 100
layers during the month was 1,991
compared with 1,995 a year ago.
in treated hay mows
are potential death traps
cyanide is inhaled, the cyanide
ions react instantly with the ternc
ions present in the oxidizing en
zymes ot the blood. The resulting
cyano-enzyme complex inhibits
cellular respiration in the body’s
tissues,” tha report states.
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