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Show No county feed this one called aflatoxin aired or printed. His only was transmitted from comment about how Infeed to animals. The termountain Farmers Pillsbury man said some was handling the probcottonseed meal was ex- lem of keeping unwanted posed to the aflatoxin material out of feed was, Our customers have no said the firm has a and that dairy cattle pro- need to worry about any milk after duced tainted quality control prosaid He meal. the chemicals, including gram to make sure feed eating traces of the chemical PCBs. clean. are ingredients The Intermountain Just as a precau- were found in milk in Farmers branch in SpanArizona the but that tion, he said, we inFork ish discovered was provides a sizproblem spect each ingredient before able quantity of liveany Utah cows ate visually before we unload feed in the county. stock it. He said a lot can be the feed supplement. The manager there said told by the way a They took a lot of tests and sure made it didnt monitoring of ingresubstance looks, smells, our into milk, Kap- dients of feeds distributand feels. Samples are get ed by the plant was carsaid. also taken from each load pel out before the ried LaMont Blackham, for of ingredients Moroni of the material reached laboratory tests. Kappel manager Feed in Moroni But he, Fork. said, Co., Spanish said the firm maintains a insaid all he felt We our monitor the too, list of inspected and aphad media inflated for the that proved ingedient sup- gredients and of PCBs He said issue PCBs. that pliers and those are the sole source of feed stuffs. samples were taken an egg rancher forced to continually, and that destroy his flock easily In addition to the the samples were tested suffered the most in the testing program, affair. Its kind of a sad one of two veterinarKappel said the each of by the he said. ians deal, by employed several where the states lab a firm or sent to However, Ray Downs Pillsbury feeds are shipof elsewhere. the Utah Agriculture ped inspect the material Uncle We with live Department said that on a regular basis so we to while he didnt think the we have Sam and get a lot of analysis done. Blackham danger from PCBs had If something comes up, monitor, been felt he that said, adding completely estabwe try to trace it down. had he couldnt realPCBs of issue the lished, He called the PCB afof been out blown ly downgrade it altogethway fair very unusual. I oner. the proportion by ly know of three inmedia. Downs said there is stances where its hapInterof The routine manager monitoring by pened. He noted anoththe state of feeds for er recent incident where mountain Farmers Association in Draper was various problems but a harmful substance even more critical of that he couldn't say news coverage of the that everything on the problem. At first, he market is looked at and would say nothing about analyzed. He noted, the subject, saying that though, that if traces of unwanted material crop May said he felt that he had provided informaAll in all, business was tion before but felt it was up in feed during the about as good as it was corrupted before it was routine tests, the depart last year. He said it was a good Save Fuel This Winter! thing that he was able to find extra loads of gasoline during those final months because, Id hate to be closed PCBs in by R. K. Jackson Recently in at least 10 western states and the Intermountain region in particular, thousands of chickens and eggs had to be destroyed after traces of a chemical compound were found in feed the hens had eaten. The compound was one of a group called Polychlorinated Bithenyls, which are used for such applications as cooling electric transformers. PCBs have been linked to a number of human health problems, including cancer and skin sores. The s asked several suppliers of animal feed what precautions were being taken to insure that no PCBs or other harmful substances were present in feed the firms supply to Times-New- stockmen, including those in Juab County. Leland Milling Co. is one( supplier of feeds to county ranchers and farmers. Much of that feed comes from Pills-burMills in Ogden and y Pillsburys Dick Kappel From page two Gasoline during the summer, an employee there said, not here it didnt, anyway. We think been just as good. its Richard May, who runs Fergs Service, said August was the turning point in his summer business. June and July were terrible, May said, they didnt come until August. May said he sold all the gasoline allocated by his supplier (the allocation is a percentage of the gallons sold in the sagie months of 1978) dicing the last half of the summed season. I had to go scrounge myself up another load someplace else. Since the extra loads of fuel essentially made up for the deficit caused by the allocation program, With Today's Gas Prices why drive up North to get Apples? Stop At KAYS COUNTRY STORE Golden and Red delicous picked fresh daily!! Main Street in Mona down for a whole week. And no matter how good business is or is not, the price of a gallon of gas continues you 'lOmdruud., jbooti, P&nclt & Rueefewoif,! ONLY 540 its march to the sky. Several Nephi stations now sell premium and unleaded gas for more than $1 a gallon and regular is not far behind. May said his supplier notifies him of price increases almost weekly. Also 28" - 48" Widths WARP BROS. Chicago 60651 Take this ad to your Hardware. 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