> * What Vou Should Knot/ About Swine Health by Glenn Shirk Lancaster Extension Agent Editor's note - This is the ninth in a series of articles on swine health. This article emphasizes the value of utilizing diagnostic facilities properly. It is written by Robert E. Gray bill, D.V.M., Lancaster. Using of Diagnostic Facilities Many times an accurate diagnosis of a swine health problem can be established on the farm by experienced clinical observation or by using a necropsy (autopsy) of representative animals. Other times these ob servations lead only to a dif ferential diagnosis so additional aid is needed by the laboratory to make the final determination. An accurate-diagnosis is. very ATTENTION! lt r '^ Progressive Livestock Producers This Is The Time To Put Your EMPHASIS ON MARKETING * ALL BONDED MARKETS ★; Guaranteed Payment... All Livestock Paid For Day Of Sale! ★ HONEST WEIGHTS * Livestock Weighed In Full View X>f Buyer & Seller. 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Many bacteria and viral diseases are heat sen sitive and don’t survive for a long period after the animal dies. In some health-related problems there is a nutritional or en vironmental problem rather than a disease-causing problem. This dictates that an on-site evaluation be done before blaming some \ </ exotic disease as the causitive agent and then expecting the lab to find it. Many tunes the stage of the disease has effects on the diagnostic tests and additional samples may need to be submitted for a complete evaluation and HARRISBURG Pennsylvania farmers had 2,100,000 cattle and calves on hand Jan. 1, according to the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service. This is a five percent increase from the January, 1981 level of 2,000,000 head. The Keystone state’s calf crop for 1981 is estimated at 850,000, up six percent from the 1980 crop. AU cows that have calved at 977,00 was six percent more than a year ago. Milk cow numbers at 730,000 were two percent above last year. 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Milk cow replacement heifers 500 pounds and over, at 307,000 were 12 per cent above last year, while beef cow replacement heifers at 44,000 were 12 percent above last year. Other heifers 500 pounds and over at 42,000 were down 16 per cent. Steers and bulls in this same weight category numbered 275,000 and 44,000, up five percent from last year. All calves under 500 pounds numbered 411,000, two percent above January 1,1981. All U.S. cattle and calves on January 1 totaled 115.7 million head, one percent above a year ago and four percent above January 1980. All cows and heifers that have calved, at 50.4 million head, were up two percent from 49.6 million a year ago. Beef cows, at 39.4 million head, were two percent aboye last year and milk cows, at 11.0 million, were up one percent from last year. Other class inventories on January 1 and their changes from last year are as follows: all heifers 500 pounds and over, 18.3 million, up three percent; beef replacement heifers, 6.62 million, up eight percent; milk replacement heifers, 4.53 million, up four percent; other.heifers, 7.19 million, down one percent; steers 500 pounds and oyfer, 15.5 million, unchanged; bulls 500 pounds and over, 2.62 million, up three per , cent; all calves under 500 pounds, 28.9 million, 'unchanged; all cattle and calves on feed January 1, for slaughter, 10.6 million, down eight percent. The 1981 calf crop is estimated at 44.7 million, down one percent from 1980 but five percent above 1979. Calves bom during the first half of the year were estimated at 71 percent of the annual total. Full Warranty On Insulation For Life 01 Structure • Fully Insured • Free Estimates We Can Do The Job Not*
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