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Show Be Careful of Feed Is Advice Given Our atteniton has been called to the fact that dairymen and livestock men in Cache County who are feeding pea vine silage-are silage-are having losses in their herds caused by foreign bodies such as nails, wire, glass, and rocis that have accumulated from the clean-up in the various viner stations and conveyed into the pea vine silage stacks. We also find that in the beet pulp silos th?'ro i3 similar waste, beer caps and bottles, wire, nails, and various other materials that are very detrimental to animals. We aypeal to you to use every precaution when repairing and cleaning up viner stations and pulp silos or premises that later divert to either the pea vine stacks cr thr pulp silo to eliminate elim-inate all these foreign substances. sub-stances. Farmers should be very careful care-ful in the repair of their grain bins, pulp bins, and feed mangers to eliminate loose nails, glass, or wire. They should also be careful care-ful in cutting alfalfa hay, peas, Or grain, not to cut pieces of wire with their mowing . machines ma-chines or binder that will later appear in the feed. There are more losses, according ac-cording ot a reliable veterinarian, veterinar-ian, in dairy herds from wire, nails, and glass than any other cause. Caution should be exer-cised exer-cised to prevent such losses. |