El4-LMcastcr FanMC, Saturday, March 7,1987 can remember, mothers have been warning their children to "bundle up or you'll catch your death." Researchers have proved other wise. Healthy volunteers some fully clothed and some clad only in underwear were inoculated with cold virus and then exposed to frigid temperatures for several hours The two groups showed no Dairy' Day Programs Slated For PLEAS ANT VILLE, N.Y. - Though the common cold has been around for ages, most people know surprisingly little about what really causes, spreads, prevents and cures our number one in fectious illness, according to the Reader’s Digest.” For example, as long as anyone Three Northwest Counties MERCER Three dairy day programs have been slated for northwest Pennsylvania next week. Mercer County starts the programs on March 9 followed by Crawford County on March 10 and Erie County on March 11. Dr. Howard J. Larsen, dairy nutritionist from the University of Wisconsin, will be the featured speaker for the three programs. Larsen is known internationally for his research in Ugh forage rations, dry matter intake and factors which promote economical high production. He has done studies concerning storage and preservation of high moisture grains and forages, as ital studies as well as en related to all ages of dairy animals. The dairy nutritionist con tributes to Hoard’s Dairymen where he talks about his practical experience in feeding dairy cattle at the Marshfield Research Station in Wisconsin. Other features for the dairy days include an alfalfa growers panel of local dairymen ’>r Howard.! ai si n Red Meal Production Dec lines 13 Percent IiARKLSBL'Ht- ( ornrnen id rod meal production. dressed wcght basis, in Penns>ivama during Januan 1987 totaled 77 7 million pounds, down 13 percent trom Januarv 1986. according to the Pennsylvania Agricultural Statistics Service Beef slaughter at 96.6 million pounds liveweight was down 16 percent from January 1906. Total head slaughtered was 84,000, down 15 percent; liveweight averaged 1,173 pounds, a decrease of 20 pounds. Veal slaughter was 3.8 million pounds liveweight, down 13 percent. Calf slaughter of 22,400 head was down 14 percent; average liveweight increased one pound to 171 pounds. Hog slaughter at 30.4 million pounds liveweight, was down one percent from a year earlier. Total bead slaughtered was 126,600, down four percent. - Average liveweight was up eight pounds to 240 pounds. and mutton slaughter was 933 thousand pounds liveweight, down 8 percent. The number slaughtered was 8,400, down 9 percent. The average liveweight increased one pound to 111 pounds. Research Discredits Common Cold Myths Dr. Richard Adams, Penn State dairy specialist, will discuss new concepts in dairy nutrition. Tickets and more information is available from the extension of fices in the participating counties. QUALITY WORK AT OUR END I 2 ll* MEUIOE, Carlisle. PA PEIDHM F/UMEMPUT 717-249-5338 lambersbun, PA St A ■flOHfK. 717-263-4103 Hatfield. PA ? « LDLCHSIHCIM nr. smi a. 215-362-2510 | ! Wilmington. DE 11 302-998-0128 difference in the number or seventy of colds Similarly, many people think air conditioning increases their susceptibility to colds However, the real culprit may be the low relative humidity, not the low temperature, or refrigerated air. Physicians can be as wrong as mothers. Many doctors have long believed that colds spread when healthy people inhale virus par ticles coughed or sneezed by cold sufferers. Now research suggests that hand-to-hand contact is a more important mode of tran smission. When cold sufferers touch or blow their noses, they transfer live virus particles to their hands. 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Farmers have learned to rely on Bobcat quality to help build their own business on that same reputation. jpg Quality work - we 9 re in it together! ‘bobcat DEALERS Mifllinburj Honesdale. PA CMBIS I. SKPKU, 717-253-3334 Honey Grove. PA MMILOJUi tmwL 717-734-3682 SUT OnOPHSES 215-767-1711 doorknobs Healthy people literally pick up the virus with their hands and infect themselves by touching their noses or eyes. What about kissing'’ In a study. Dr. Elliot C. Dick, professor of preventive medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, had a group of healthy volunteers kiss cold suf ferers passionately for several minutes, and only 6 percent caught colds. It seems that there are very low concentrations of cold viruses in saliva. _ What about taking vitamin Cto prevent colds? Some studies in dicate that the vitamin may shorten the duration and severity of colds. But Dr. Jack M. Gwalt ney, Jr., professor of internal medicine at the University of '' 4 MarMnsbunt. 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