| Show EFFICIENT FEEDING aNU LIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT By Dr Gushy Emeritus Professor of Animal University of Wisconsin Lack Of Minerals Caused Lack Of Stamina The origin or of man is sairI to tobe tobe be In the Near East There many nations have had their rise decline and fall We VVe have heard and read about the Assyrians Chal- Chal deans Macedonians Cartha Cartha- Carthaginians and other nations and of course the Greeks and Ro- Ro Romans Romans mans fir A Students e ea of a history and of ar- ar archeology arra ra s have speculated about the reasons for the de- de decline decline cline of so soi i many once powerful peoples in inDr Dr Bohstedt I e e area May the fol- fol following following lowing be some of tile the reasons When the Hebrews first en- en entered entered the country of Palestine it was a timbered country Now try to find the once famous Ce- Ce Cedars Cedars dars of Lebanon I They are ex- ex extremely I rare It appears that the increase in population and in navigation resulted in such a demand for housing and shipbuilding that the hills and mountain sides were denuded of forests and were not reforested We VVe have it on apparently good authority that the city of Antioch in Syria in the fourth century AD had a population of but in the year 1926 1920 only people A deforested countryside suf- suf suffers suffers fers a rapid runoff of rain rain- rainwater rainwater water a lowering of the water table a consequent drying of springs and ultimately soil erosion and loss of fertility The prevalent overgrazing with goats hurries the disaster along Greece even now has more goats go-ats than people In the early days cation and transportation were primitive The food supply was extremely simple as unfortunately unfortunately it is even now in some countries Certainly there were no supermarkets People lived from the produce of the soil with little protective food from animal sources It was comparable to farm animals subsisting on the crops of a or ranch and if this should be located in a mineral deficient region the animals sooner or later would show the symptoms of mineral deficiency and perhaps die from malnutrition At least the they would suffer deficiency losses Even salt has frequently been lacking k and bt t the Bible l ll l mentions salt Tt about b bt t as often as any other mineral In general the soils of Medi Medi- Mediterranean countries through the ages have become poor So it is not surprising that some scholars of antiquity have at- at attributed attributed the passing of so many nations to a deficiency of min crisis whether major or minor therefore trace minerals such as iodine cobalt and zinc We now enjoy a wide variety or of foods including protective f foods from animal sources And those animals in our care can be well guarded against numerous deficiency diseases by superior forages and sup sup sup- supplements including trace min eral premixes premixes and trace min eral salt Questions With the nitrate problem in silage more com com com- common mon than it used to be what precautions need nE-cd to be taken to avoid trouble Peed Feed liberal amounts of grain to reduce the amount of silage eaten Give cattle some International al Units of vitamin A daily Feed trace mineralized or iodized io- io iodized salt instead of plain salt |
