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Show I : ' ll TI AROUND OUR Cattlemen of Beaver who own pasture land where heel 'flies are a problem will be happy to hear about the new systemic poison that controls heel flies with one dose. Heel flies have been a serious problem prob-lem in Beaver Valley pastures f0r a number of years. It has been a problem to control this pest on beef cattle and dairy City, Mont., Beef Cattle Experiment Exper-iment Station. The results of this test show that moderate grazing produces maximum profit per acre over light or heavy grazing. The calf crops were as follows: fol-lows: Heavy grazing, 71; moderate mod-erate grazing, 86; light grazing, graz-ing, 93. Probably the' most significant figure obtained in the test was the pounds o'f calf produced per acre. Heavy grazing resulted in 11.6 lbs of calf per acre; moderate grazing, 12.1 lbs, and light grazing 10.5 lbs of calf per acre- On the heavy grazing, some damage to range took place over the years. Similar results have been obtained ob-tained at the Desert Range Experiment Ex-periment Station west of. Milford. Mil-ford. If you haven't dusted your gladiolus bulbs with DDT you should do so now to prevent I damage from thrips. heifers with rotenone because it required two or three applications applica-tions during the spring months. This new chemical, known as ET57, has proven 90 to 100 effective in trials with one dosage- This material will not be on the market for at least a year, as further testing is being done to assure no harmful effects. Another item cf interest to all stockmen in Beaver County is the results of 20 years of experimental ex-perimental work on rate of stocking ranges at the Miles |