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Show tification (fecal exams), external ex-ternal parasite identification and blood analysis for heart -worms; toxicological analysis analy-sis ( sornx' samples may be submitted to the state Chemists Chem-ists laboratory for analysis) and laboratory animal in-noculation in-noculation such as for rabies suspects. A fee is charged for services ser-vices performed, but this is a small amount in comparison compari-son to the total cost of operation oper-ation of the two facilities. The other funds for operation oper-ation are supplied through USU budget allocations in order or-der to keep the service fee as low as possible. and expense. If a veterinarian is not available in your locality, the laboratory personnel can give advice by telephone on the selection and care of specimens. In unusual or especially difficult cases, the laboratory personnel or other veterinarians of the USU staff may be requested re-quested to visit the site of the problem. It is best to also have your local veterinarian vet-erinarian involved in this visit so information can be shared, duplication of effort avoided, and so he will be aware of the entire situation for followup purposes. He can also assist you by interpreting inter-preting and applying the information in-formation gained from the laboratory work. Dr. Ross A. Smart is director di-rector of the laboratory In the USU Veterinary Sciences Sci-ences Building at Logan, and Dr. Allan Thomas is in charge of the laboratory at Provo. The new building adjoins the Utah County Animal Control Con-trol facility. It is a tremendous tremen-dous improvement in lo cation and physical plant for the lab. Also, approximately $50,000 of new equipment has been added there to expand the range of services which are offered. Services offered include the necropsy (autopsy of dead animals ), serology (blood serum tests, e.g. brucellosis, brucello-sis, lepto, anaplasmosis, pseudorabies, etc.); histo-pathology histo-pathology (formal in fixing, sectioning, staining and examination ex-amination microscopically of tissues for abnormal structure); clininical pathology path-ology ( red blood count, white blood count, urinalysis, body fluids, blood chemistry and enzyme tests, etc.); culture and identification of microorganisms micro-organisms (bacteria, fungi and viruses); parasite iden- Tractor Clinic saves fuel "You may be getting only 60 horse power from a tractor designed to give 80. It will use the same amount of fuel but won't put out the work that it should." Dr. Von H. Jarrett, extension agricultural engineer, Utah State University, has put ac -ross this idea to farmers and ranchers over the state in a tractor testing program conducted under grant from Utah State Energy Office. In tractor clinics he has conducted throughout Utah since the fall of 1976, Dr. Jarrett has tested nearly 1000 of the farmers and ranchers ran-chers tractors using a dynamometer dyna-mometer behind his pickup in clinics arranged by the local' county extension agents. He says it has not been un -common for a farmer to bring his tractor from the field for the checkup, then after the adjustments are made, go back in the field on the same implement and find that he could travel two gears higher than before. be-fore. This means a big savings in both time and fuel. Where records were kept at one time period, an average increase in-crease of 11.25 horsepower output per tractor was gained on 273 tractors. Dr. Jarrett notes that according ac-cording to the Nebraska Fuel Consumption Test Report, an average 50 HP dieseltractor will develop 14.6 horsepower hours per gallon of fuel under full load. Multiplying the gain in horsepower by the number of hours the tractor is used in a year and dividing divid-ing by 14.6 gives the owner an idea of the annual fuel savings achieved from testing test-ing his tractor. Farmers and Ranchers soon see another value. At present prices in purchasing a tractor, the cost per horsepower horse-power well exceeds $200. With 10 horsepower restored to the tractor, the owner has saved you might say gained gain-ed over $2,000 in power value. Farmers in the more remote re-mote areas of the state, who must travel a hundred miles or so for tractor repair service ser-vice especially appreciate it when adjustments can be made at a local clinic. When the trip is necessary, they appreciate knowing what repairs re-pairs are needed. Dr. Jarrett's aim is not so much to provide the testing test-ing service as to take advantage ad-vantage of the teaching moment mo-ment to get farmers to understand and take better care of their tractors. Often he conducts an evening school for the tractor owners and operators. There he stresses that the best assurance assur-ance of saving money and fuel on tractors is to keep them tuned up and properly serviced and to use good quality, clean fuel and lubricants. lubri-cants. Through slides, displays and discussions in the meetings, meet-ings, he puts across the , idea that the only way to get full value out of this expensive expen-sive equipment is to work it more at peak efficiency. Tractor owners are becoming be-coming highly sensitive to the increasing costs of equipment and fuel. They feel the necessity of getting more work for the dollars spent. The tractor clinics are helping them to do it. |