| Show OUT DDT Is not MA always harmful to Afi absorption or licking toxicity overplayed when DDT fly sprays first be came available for farm and livestock there was consider able talk about sprayed animals be ing poisoned from absorption through the skin or from licking one another or licking the walls of buildings to which DDT had been applied evidence however indicates the danger of toxicity to animals has been overplayed for instance in missouri last summer a cow drank half a tubful of DDT barn spray while the farmer was tinkering tinker mg with his sprayer and getting ready to spray his bam barn the cow suffered no bad effects at west virginia university last year the dairy department threw caution to the wind and put 32 pounds of 50 per cent DDT powder in gallons of water then sprayed cows with it that figures out about 16 per cent for DDT most recommendations to date have been under 1 per cent for DDT water sprays on animals there were absolutely no harmful results the head of the dairy department re ported the DDT controlled flies too the spray was put on i in n may and there were no flies on the cows until the middle of august dehorning instruments spread common disease A cattle disease known as ana plas has gained a serious toot foot hold in the united states and is more prevalent than most folks realize it is a febrile in protozoan disease that may be chronic or acute it attacks older am ani mals mostly aver age mortality ranges from 30 to 50 per cent of am ani mals affected clinical symptoms are similar to tick fever treatment is still in the expert mental stage the disease probably is spread by insect bites many cases coming to the attention of bu reau of animal industry in tors have followed mechanical de horning when too little or no atten tion had been given to disinfecting instruments it if calves have horn buttons re moved when young by means of cherr chemical ucal dehorning fluid the dan ger of spreading the disease by de horning tools is eliminated this land of ours must now be saved W one of the greatest costs of the war to america was the depletion of her soil demands for increased production forcing of land without returning necessary food shortage of fertilizer and the lack of labor to properly plant soil protecting crops has resulted in erosion and barren soil in hundreds of thousands 0 of acres of land dried sweet potatoes prove excellent food sweet potatoes prepared for feed by slicing and sun drying were corn com pared with cracked no 3 yellow corn in a series of digestion and nitrogen balance trials with steers and lambs by oklahoma experiment station on the basis of total di tible nutrient content the dried sweet potatoes had 92 3 per cent the value of no 3 corn nitrogen n re by steers and lambs was practically the same |
