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Show UTAHN DEVELOPS ' VALUABLE CATTLE TREATMENT Dr. O. Wilford Olsen, native of Utah, was cited recently by the U. S. Department of Agriculture for his outstanding work in developing devel-oping and perfecting a treatment for removing liver flukes from cattle. Liver flukes are small, fiat leaf-shaped parasites that attack the liver where they are especially especial-ly difficult to reach by the usual medications. The drug, hexachlo-rethane, hexachlo-rethane, had been found to be effective ef-fective against them and safe to use in cattle, but was difficult to administer because of its insolubility insolu-bility in. water. Through resourceful resource-ful experimentation, Dr. Olsen found that hexachloroethane would combine well with another chemical chemi-cal bentonite, to form a smooth and stable suspension in water that could be administered easily and readily to cattle. This development devel-opment shows great possibilities as has been shown by the experiments experi-ments carried out by Dr. Olsen in the Gulf coast of Texas. Liver flukes have long been a serious handicap to cattle raising in the Gulf coast region of the United States, and certain sections sec-tions of the Pacific coast and the Intermountain area, including particularly par-ticularly Utah, Idaho and Nevada. Their presence in cattle results in the loss of thousands of tons of beef annually in the United States. Dr. Olsen, scientist of the Bureau Bu-reau of Animal Industry is now located lo-cated at the Texas Agriculture Experiment station at Angelton, Texas. He holds three degrees: B. A., from B.Y.U. of Provo, and the M. A. and Ph. D. from the University of Minnesota. After serving as instructor in zoology and parasitology at the University of Hawaii, Harvard and University Universi-ty of Minnesota, he joined the research re-search staff of the Zoological Division Di-vision of the Bureau of Animal Industry. In-dustry. Dr. Olsen is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver W. Olsen of Brigham City. He married lone Palyrey-man Palyrey-man of Springville, former instructor in-structor of Home Economics at B. Y. U. |