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Show On Utah County Farms !I With Extension Agents the tissues, necrosis and sloughing result. A 20 per cent solution of calcium gluconate compound In '250 cc. doses is also extensively used. It has the distinct advantage advant-age of -being non-irritating and can therefore be given subcutaneously or intramuscalarly or may be given directly into the blood stream. Intravenous In-travenous injections produce somewhat some-what quicker results than do the other methods, because the calcium ia immediately ready for metabolic metabol-ic processes. More recent studies indicate that the parathyroid glands are associated with calcium metabolism. metabol-ism. It has also been demonstrated demonstrat-ed that the injection of parathyroid parathy-roid extracts in combination with calcium therapy is of sp-ecial value in the treatment of the more obstinate ob-stinate cases of milk fever." I . . '"e agricultural department of h" -sh county nns jt received in-)n' in-)n' actions from state Commtssion-j..- ,J Agriculture, David F. Smith, V " 'take 'every precaution against i Colorado potato beetle, getting ie '" hold in Utah, u- jpniissioner Smim suites that iiiall infestation has recently t en (ond in Ogden. Nine years . 100,000 tomato plants were i tlped'into the norfh end of Utah r't -iniy- These plants were in-tV in-tV i&iiA wltn tne Coloi'acl Potato eV itie and were desUyed fay the ',ricultural inspector, s "a few f these plants were, njwever, distributed before being t.. !n,.pected and these plants started "mall infestation in Linden dis- s' trict but were choked and cleaned up immediately after, thus saving Utah county from a general infestation. infest-ation. We solicit the cooperation of all growers of tomatoes and potatoes and if any signs of the Colorado Potato Beetle is noted, call the agricultural department at Provo, 105. The Colorado potato Deetle adult is a stout, roundish, yellow beetle. 2-5 of an inch long with five black longitudinal stripes on each wing. The larvae is 3-5 of an Inch Song, soft, reddislf in color, with black head and legs and with 2 rows of black spots along each side. Eggs are orange red in patches of 5 to 70 on the underside of tlie leaves. With the cooperation and Interest Inter-est of all concerned we will be able to keep this, the most destructive destruc-tive potato insect pest, from getting get-ting a foothold in Utah county and the state of Utah as a whole. MfLK FEVER Dr. D. E. Madsen of the U.S.A.C. offers the following on the disease of milk fever: "Several investigators have found abnormally low quantities of calcium cal-cium in the blood of cows suffering suf-fering with milk fever and it ia now generally accepted that the proper treatment of ttiese cases requires re-quires the use of calcium therapy. The classical air treatment which lias been used so much in the past has proved quite satisfactory but its use involves one great danger, t hat of introducing infection into tlie highly specialized milk-producing glands consequently, the air treatment has largely been replaced replac-ed by calcium therapy. The calcium is usually administered admin-istered in one or two forms. A 20 per cent solution of calcium chloride chlor-ide in 125 to 120 cc. doses is being used very extensively. It is an Irritating 'drug when in direct contact with tissues, hence it must he administered directly into the blood stream and cannot be given subcutaneously or intramuscularly If small amounts leak out into i |
