Show Battle on Live LiveStock LiveStock LiveStock Stock Parasites Losses Have Been Tolerated Tolerate Too Long and Accepted Too Complacently Prepared by the United Staten Statu Department De De- of Agriculture Parasites Injure live tock stock on the farms oDd and ranches of the United States Slates probably to the extent of hundreds hundreds hun bun of ot millions of dollars annually This Title Is la the conclusion reached by bf Dr John It It n. Molder Mohler chief of the bureau of animal Industry United States Department De De- of Agriculture after re review lewIng lew- lew Ing lag the evidence collected by his bureau bu reau The Inroads of parasites especially es es- the time Internal kinds he says constitute a live stock problem of great Importance Losses from para para- sites have Q been tol d Bt d too long and accepted too complacently The live livestock livestock livestock stock Industry cannot afford offord to let this this' situation continue especially when certain parasites are exacting more and more tribute tribute more more and more blood money Parasites Spreading As Important pests heats Doctor Mohler mentions the nodular worms attack Ing lag sheep which have been en so trou In the South and now are spreading to tn the Middle le West the theller er liver fluke In III the Hocky mountain i states and und on the time th thus kidney worms so widespread In hogs stomach worms In sheep heel round roundworms roundworms roundworms worms tapeworms and und lung worms worm end and the better known knoWlI because more obvious ob ticks lice and mites The only wu way In III which these parasitic losses can cun be he stopped Doctor Mohler believes es Is through thorough and painstaking research work to re eal the life histories of the time parasites and discover er t time le points at which they can be attacked most successfully This research should then lumen be bu followed l by hy campaigns of education among live liveD D' D n m n a t I I MU DW oil la D b growers u. u it I or grad cu 11 ion tron As an example of or the IlI enormous reproductive reproductive re re- re productive capacity of ot sumo some of the parasites Doctor octor Mohler says that n a female roundworm In the Intestines of a n hog hoS may produce more than 23 P eggs gs Injure by Blood These parasites do Injury as I Is commonly supposed by sucking blood and b by Inflicting pain and Irritation which Interfere with th the a animals animal's rest and and feed fred lint Hut the ry ryoe does doe not cease with this Some parasites produce pro poisons poIsons' Others make openIngs open Ings In III the tle flesh h and tissue which nl low bacteria to enter At time limes the accumulation of parasites In 10 the bod body nifty be he so treat great as to prevent the lungs the kidneys or the alimentary from functioning as ns they should rust the parasites are causing con cun concern concern cern to stockmen i s In by the number of Inquiries Inquiries' received by hy the Department of Agriculture The ex ex- pests of ot the department have hn devised an nn excellent of sanitation for control of roundworms In swine amid I Doctor Mohler 1 says ea's we are planning to augment the present force of workers work ers era and to provide means and tied thi for more research with the hope hop of finding better methods for checkIng check check- Ing the time Inroads Inroad of the more serious parasites pa s for which present control methods are not fully effective |