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Show Utah Farm Bureau News November 1974 Page 5 03 O Tlpa for rcnchsra end formers Fake hormones may help control cattle flies Insect growth regulators, or e-mimicking compounds, may rid cattle flies that cause of help major losses in milk production as well as reduced weight gains in beef animals, according to USD A test results. At critical periods, hormones are necessary for the continued development of fly larvae and pupae. When present at the wrong time, though, the hormone dooms the immature insect to remain at that stage of development until it dies. Researchers have experimented with synthetic mimics of natural juvenile hormones of flies. Incorporated in cattle feed, the compounds hormon- New cherry resists X-dise- - ase A new sweet cherry variety that has been released to nurserymen. Named Angela by the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station at Utah State University and the USDA Agricultural Research Service that cooperatively developed it, it can replace the Bing or Lambert varieties in areas where causes serious tree losses. Angela has proved to be more resistant to splitting from rains than either of those varieties and has been is resistant to the passed through the animal, permeating the manure, a prime material for the flies development. Horn flies and face flies, a problem in pastures rather than barns, are especially good targets for the growth regulators, since spraying and manure removal are impractical. Scientists suggest that combining use of the compounds with sanitation and insecticides offers the most hope. Using growth regulators alone, a cattleman might find that the flies switch to such breeding places as wet straw bedding. Government approval will be needed before the compounds can be sold as feed additives. X-dise- X-dise- ase free from doubles even in ares where cherries often have 30 percent doubles. It is more resistant to damage from low winter temperatures than either the Bing or Ranier varieties. The bloom occurs three to five days later than Lambert where it has been grown in Utah. This cuts the chance of loss from late spring frosts The fruits, almost as firm as Bing, have dark colored flesh with a good flavor. Poultry wastes cut nitrogen feed costs Cottonseed meal costs $232 per ton. Dried poultry waste costs $65 per ton. So when USDA scientists reported that the poultry wastes mixed, in a corn meal ration put the same weight on cattle as feed with cottonseed meal as the nitrogen source, it rang a bell with feeders. Digestability of both rations was about equal. And the dried wastes, equal in nitrogen, contain more calcium and phosphorus. Although a few feeders already use animal wastes in feed, government approval will be necessary before a commercial feed additive for cattle and sheep is marketed. FB favors workmens for agriculture compensation Utahs Workmens Amendments to will extend which laws Compensation coverage to farm workers in the Beehive State are now under consideration by the legislatures Judicial Review Committee. Utah is one of only a few states not now providing workmens compensation coverage to farm employees and farm owners. In testimony before the committee, C. Booth Wallen tine, UFBF executive vice president, said Farm Bureau policy favors the protection of workmens compensation laws. Many people believe workmens compensation laws protect only the farm worker. In many recent instances in neighboring states, however, workmens compensation laws prevented costly, lawsuits which might otherwise have brought farmers to bankruptcy, Wallentine said. He said workmens compensation insurance will add to a farm employers cost. Although no proven statistics are yet available for Utah, experience in neighboring states indicates the insurance will cost farmers and ranchers about $4.50 to $5.00 for each $100 paid to an employee, he said. Wallentine said a federal law requires states to provide minimum protections to all employees working in the state for all industries. If the states fail to act, a rigid federal law will apply. After studying the issue, and in keeping with Farm Bureau policy favoring legal limits on an employers liability for injury to employees, the UFBF board of directors recently approved the concept of amending Utahs laws to cover farm workers. While we recognize farmers have an obligation to provide safe working conditions to employees, we also believe there is need for a workmens compensation law to protect employers against unreasonable lawsuits from workers claiming injury while working on a farm in Utah, Wallentine told the committee. In the testimony, Wallentine listed several advantages of the workmens, compensation insurance including a better employee-employrelationship which contributes to more productivity. He also noted the proposed law would set a limit on how much any injured worker could receive and would eliminate the growing number of nuisance or malicious lawsuits against employers by farm workers. We believe employers of migrant farm workers have a particular need for this protection. Most employers of migrant workers cannot afford potentially ruinous lawsuits against the farm owner, Wallentine added. 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