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NAZARETH - Lehigh-
Northampton County Cooperative
Extension services held a three
day advanced Dairy Nutrition
School on March 13-15. The 14
students came from Monroe,
Lehigh and Northampton Counties
in Pennsylvania and Warren
County in New Jersey.
The group consisted of dairy
farmers and feed company
representatives. Instruction was
handled by Dr. Charles Gardener,
veterinarian at the Ackermanville
Veterinary Hospital; Richard
Selenium need discussed
COLUMBUS, Oh. - Dr. Harlan
Bigbee, Director of Clinical
Research for Sobering Cor
poration’s Animal Health Division,
recently addressed members of
the Ohio Veterinary Medical
Association about the biological
importance of selenium and
vitamin E. He described disorders
in livestock caused by deficiencies
of these nutrients, and how they
can be prevented by sup
plementation.
Bigbee explained, “Selenium is a
component of the enzyme
glutathione peroxidase, which
prevents damage to cell mem
branes by harmful byproducts of
metabolism. Selenium combines
with vitamin E to act in other
important biological processes,
including reproductive, liver and
cellular mitochondrial functions. ”
Disorders caused by
selemum/vitamin E deficiencies
include white muscle disease
(nutritional muscular dystrophy)
in cattle and sheep, and Mulberry
heart disease and liver disorders in
swine. “Sometimes little or no
success is had treating these
disorders, since damage is usually
irreversible by the time symptoms
Chester seeding sale set
WEST CHESTER - The 1984
Annual Chester County Tree
Seedling Sale will be held in nine
locations around Chester County
on April 13 and 14, Harold Kulp,
Chairman of the Chester County
Conservation District announced.
Trees are obtained and
distributed to civic organizations,
which use the tree sales as a fund
raising activity as well as helping
residents aid the environment.
Varieties available will be White
Pine, Blue Spruce, Douglas Fir
and Hemlock. A few locations will
have White Spruce and Norway
Spruce.
The seedlings will be packaged
in bundles of ten trees for $4.00.
Organizations assisting in the
Correspondence courses
UNIVERSITY PARK - People
who keep small flocks of poultry or
numers of rabbits in their
backyards can take correspon
dence courses from Penn State to
learn how to manage these
operations.
The following courses are
available;
Poultry Keeping - Correspon
dence course No. 92, ($10.75).
Covers quailty egg production and
marketing, management, breeds,
varieties, housing, equipment,
feeding, nutrition, disease control,
brooding and general care of
chickens.
Rabbit Production
lard
Dairy nutrition school held
Adams, Dairy Specialist at Penn
State; and County Agents David
Dunbar from Lehigh County and
Greg Solt from Northampton
County.
“We crammed a graduate level
college nutrition course into three
days” reports Greg Solt. “We
worked them hard and long and
they still wanted more according
to the evaluations they returned to
us.”
“The type and level of in
struction at a meeting like this just
isn’t available to the dairymen
from any other source except a
appear,” Bigbee warned.
Dr. Bigbee stressed that
“prevention is the best way of
avoiding selenium/vitamin E
responsive diseases.” Preven
tative injections of selenium and
vitamin E are extremely effective
in assuring adequate protection for
cattle, sheep and swine. Selenium
and vitamin E-contaming feed
additives are also available.
Supplementation is especially
needed in areas of selenium
deficient soil.
Bigbee noted “the extent of
selenium-deficient areas in the
U.S. is growing, largely due to
effects of modern high production
agriculture.” He also stated that
“acid soils render naturally
occuring selenium biologically
unavailable to the animal. Vitamin
E is not stored well in the animal’s
system, and is broken down
rapidly in stored feed and grain
treated with propnonates.”
Dr. Bigbee summarized by
urging the veterinarians to make
producers more aware of problems
caused by selenium/vitamin E
deficiencies and let them know
that these problems can be avoided
by supplementation.
sale, sales locations and tunes are;
(Sales start: Friday evening, 6:30
p.m., Saturday morning, 9:30
a.m.) B.S.A. Troop 70, (Downing
Center Superfresh-Downmgtown,
ACME-Thorndale, Croppers
Market-Guthnesville); Central
Chester County League of Women
Voters, (Fiore’s Market-
Marchwood, West Goshen Shop
ping Center); F.F.A. Northern
Chester County Vo-Tech School
(Greenhouse behind school off
Charlestown Rd.); Professional
Secretaries International,
(Stoltzfus I.G. A.-Honeybrook);
Red Clay Valley Assoc., (Tunis
Bros.-Kennett Square, Greenbank
Station of Wilm. & Western RR, Rt.
41 N. of Princes Corners-
Saturday).
available
Correspondence course No. 109,.
($6.75). Includes lessons on
housing, equipment, feeding,
nutrition, disease control,
breeding, marketing ard
management.
Turkey Production
Correspondence course No. 106,
($9). Covers producing, managing,
breeding, feeding and handling
turkeys for market acceptance.
To obtain any of the above
courses write to The Pennsylvania
State University, Box 5000,
University Park, PA 16802. Be sure
to list course number and title and
enclose a check payable to: The
Pennsylvania State University.
resident college program” ex- “Did it sink in?” “Well, our post
plains Solt. “There probably aren’t quiz was taken directly from a
25 other people in the counties graduate level rumenology course
represented, including feed I had at Penn State several years
company representatives, who ago,” Solt responded. “The
have as up-to-date information on average score was over 70% ”, “I
energy and protein utilization and think that proves our clients can
requirements. ” handle it. ”
David Dunbar, Lehigh County Agent, standing, and Allen Minnich, Northampton
County dairy farmer, study calf tissue samples during two-county Dairy Nutrition School.
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