C26—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 1,1981
Prevent
MONTICELLO, N.Y. - “When
you plow or harrow your pasture,
the deeper into the ground you go,
the more protection against
bloodworms your horse will have."
This important piece of in
formation was revealed by a team
of University of Illinois
veterinarians working under the
sponsorship of the Moms Animal
Foundation, according to Peter L.
Rhulen, the organization’s Equine
division vice president. The non
profit foundation is dedicated to
improving the well being of
animals.
The University of Illinois
veterinarians, J.A. DiPietro,
D.V.M. and T.A. McPherron,
D.V.M., found even an inch of
earth can help prevent contact
with bloodworms or Strongylus
vulgaris. This may mean
preventing colic, since an
estimated 90 percent of all cases of
cohc m horses is caused by
bloodworms.
The investigators buried horse
feces infected with strongyle
larvae to several depths and
carefully evaluated their
migration to the surfaces of the
ground, as well as temperature,
humidity and other factors. Only a
few of the buried larvae suc
cessfully reached the ground
surface indicating that plowing or
harrowing will help control the
strongyles.
However, the researchers are
quick to point out that the larvae
can migrate upwards as much as
11 or 12 inches. The researchers
also found that as temperatures
get colder, fewer larvae migrate to
the surface of the ground. The
reverse is also true as tem
peratures get warmer.
Preliminary studies also show
gradual changes in temperature,
such as when winter turns to
spring, don’t seem to affect the
larvae. Large or sudden tem
perature changes which some
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plowing pastures
areas experience in midsummer
may harm the larvae’s ability to
migrate upward or even survive.
The colic cycle begins when a
horse starts to graze. Bloodworm
larvae on grass are eaten by the
horse, enter the digestive system
and migrate through the cir
culatory system as they mature.
The adult parasites return to the
mtestinal tract after several
Learn how to read weeds
NORRISTOWN At this tune of
year, weeds and other wild plants
are thriving conspicuously
wherever they have a chance. If
you know how to read the weeds,
they can tell you a lot about the
land on which they grow, ac
cording to Joy Way, Montgomery
County agent.
Most wild plants will grow under
a wide variety of conditions, but
some require specific kinds of
environments to survive. These
are the indicator plants which
identify particular environmental
conditions.
These plants are sensitive to:
soil moisture, varying from ex
cessively wet to excessively dry;
soil texture, varying from clay,
which is compacted and com
paratively very hard, to sand,
which is loose but retains no
moisture; and acidity, which
vanes in Pennsylvania from very
acid (pH 4.5 or less) to neutral
(pH7).
Plants that grow where con
ditions are acid and wet include
mosses and sedges. Bracken,
sheep sorrel, sweetfern,
blueberries, hawkweed, broom
sedge, and yarrow thrive where
the soil is acid and dry.
Generally, soil infertility
decreases as acidity increases.
Plants that require wet, neutral
soil are purple loosestrife, teasle,
and cattails.
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colic through
2 •/. lb. K-MH
months, where they lay eggs that
are passed out in the horse’s feces.
The larvae cause severe damage
to the horse’s blood vessels and
infest the artery which supplies the
horse’s digestive organs with
blood. This causes the horse to
form blood clots in an attempt to
wall off the parasites. The clots
and pieces of clots then block
circulation, causing colic.
Land which is too compacted or
crusted to support most other
plants will be occupied by erect
and prostrate knotweed, prostrate
spurge, and the mustards, such as
field white and black mustard.
On pasture in which legumes,
such as clover and alfalfa, seem to
be taking over the grasses, a
nitrogen deficiency is indicated.
Where drainage and fertility are
good, as in cultivated fields,
common plantain, lambsquarters,
yellow foxtail grass, velvet leaf,
pigweed, and many other common
weeds will be found.
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going on strike.
Baseball’s on strike. Postmen
threaten and get a multi-billion
dollar settlement. Air traffic
controllers get an arm and a leg in
a new contract and still aren’t
satisfied.
Well, it’s been real easy to do
without baseball. It's not missed. 1
don’t care if they stay out so long
that Pete Rose gets too old to lift a
bat and break Stan Musial’s
record.
I can do without the mail, too.
Ninety percent of its is junk ad
vertising and bills.
1 don’t need to fly either. Just so
long as some lost 747 pilot doesn’t
decide to set down in my backyard.
But what if cows went on strike.
Suppose they j»et angry at the
parity levels set in the new federal
agbill.
So all cows - black, white, red
and brown - just sit down in the
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middel ot the barnyard without so
much as a •‘moo.”
What do you do?
Farmers can’t get them into the
barn for milking. Feed sales drop
oft. Milk haulers are halted.
Dairies shut down. Supermarket
dairy sections close.
Coke comes out with a new
trothy white substitute. Toddlers in
stroller begin to picket. Meow-Mix
gives 10-second TV spots to
complaining cats.
Sound far-fetched. Perhaps.
But who ever thought that grown
men who are paid as much as (20
million for hitting a little ball with
a stick would ever go on strike.
But if it ever would happen, the
accompanying photo submitted in
the recent Dairy Month Contest by
E. James Bruckhart, of A 4
Manheim, might suggest a
possible solution.
But it’s a long and laborious one.
Just grab a pail and get down on
your knees to milk the bovine on a
sit-down strike.
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