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Show 1 FARManaHOMEto "Cattle grubs are now occuring throughout the county and are seriously ser-iously damaging the backs of beef and dairy cattle throughout Millard county. Infestation by cattle grubs reduced re-duced milk yield, retards growth and fattening of beef cattle, reduces re-duces the value of hides and of meat carcasses and requires trimming trim-ming an average of two pounds per carcass from grubby animals. Reduced milk yields results in every infested herd, in every grubby grub-by milk cow. Later when heel flies, which arise from the grubs, are chasing the cattle in the fields in spring, milk reduction of 10 to 15 percent often occurs. The grubs are best controlled by a rotenone spray or dust. In case of community action or treatment of. large range herds, use of cattle chute and a power sprayer applications applica-tions is approximately eight to ten cents per animal per year. The best time for the first treatments treat-ments is approximately 25 days after the first grubs appear in the backs of the cattle. This time already al-ready has passed in most counties of Utah. The next two treatments, 30 and 60 days after the first occurs, oc-curs, are to destroy grubs reaching the back as the season advances. In small herds and for .dairy animals ani-mals generally, control may be affected af-fected by means of a dust mixture, consisting of ground cube or derris root in pyrophyllite or extremely fine volcanic ash. Prepared mixtures, mix-tures, ready for use, should be placed in a shaker can with a tight lid. In the top of this make 15 holes, each one-quarter inch thick in diameter, punching outward. Two men, working on both sides of a chute, shaking dust over the backs of each of the cattle, can treat 75 to 100 cattle in an hour. More than 200,000 trees for Utah farm planting during the spring of 1948 are now available at the Clark-McKary Tree Nursery at Utah State Agricultural College. Trees will be distributed to farmers farm-ers throughout the state for farmstead farm-stead windbreaks, field shelter-belts, shelter-belts, woodlot and erosion control plantings. They are made available to Utah farmers for these purposes by provisions pro-visions of the 1924 Clark-McNary Law, which provided for federal cooperation co-operation in the production and distribution of small tree planting stock. These trees may be purchased purchas-ed at $1.50 to $3.00 per hundred which includes cost of shipping. Twelve species are available for planting during the present year. There are four species of evergreens ever-greens that have been successfully grown in Utah and eight species of hardwoods. The evergreens are: blue spruce, ponderosa pine, eastern red cedar, and Rocky Mountain juniper. The hardwoods are: green ash, Siberian elm, Russion olive, black locust, honey locust, golden willow, black walnut, and Lombardy popular. For further information call at the County Agents office. |