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Show farm news notes f By LEW MAR PRICE i County Agent j Minersville Has Blackleg Outbreak ! A blackleg outbreak in Minersville during the past week resulted in the loss of twelve animals up to the present pre-sent and the vaccination of more than 100 head of susceptable cattle. The disease was in a very virulent form, sometimes killing the animals in a few hours after any signs of infection could be detected. This is the first case of the disease known in Minersville in many years, hence vaccination against it has not been a regular practice. The source of the infection on this occasion is not known, but it is doubtful if it was local. It may have been carried by crows which are present every day by the hundreds and which are the first to find the carcass of any such victims. vic-tims. Two of six animals treated after they were down with the disease are apparently recovering. Every precaution should be taken to prevent further spread of the disease. di-sease. All carcasses should be disposed dispos-ed of immediately, preferably by cremation, cre-mation, in order to keep it from birds, dogs, cats, loose pigs, etc., which carry it from farm to farm. The feeding test being conducted at the B. A. C. in cooperation with the Utah Experiment station should be of interest to a large number of livestock live-stock men in Beaver county. These are conducted in different parts of the state so more interested livestock men can be in actual touch with the conditions, and know that methods and results are practical under un-der their own conditions. On February 3, meetings will be held at the feed yard and in the school room at the B. A. C. to explain and show the results of the tests. They are worth while, and should get the support of every breeder and feeder of fat stock in firs district. Poor Livestock Poor Market for Good Feed Cheap butterfat and no market for poor producing dairy cows emphasises the necessity for herd records and the elimination of every individual that docs not meet a minimum standard that should be established for every herd. For many years we have recommended recom-mended the elimination of any cow that, in mature form and with good care and feed, will not produce at least 300 lbs. of butterfat each year. Three-hundred pound cows are not losing their owners any money now, even at present relatively low prices of fat. But it does not pay to put rood feed into poor livestock. A cow that takes $10.00 worth of feed to produce $8.00 worth of butterfat is a liability in any dairy herd, and the sooner she goes to the block at any price, the better are the chances for profit. But such a cow cannot be definitely determined without a yearly test. The tost need cost nothing, yet be sufficiently suffic-iently accurate to accomplish the pur-j pose. Such tests are valuable even j in case of surplus stock for sale, in-vaniably in-vaniably getting? 'better prices and more ready sales. We are told one third of the cows j in the U. S. lose money for their own-' ers. Eliminate their product from the total, and then guess what the price of butterfat would be. It would seem ' that the boarder cow does produce the surplus. j The trench silo is proving its value j on many Beaver county farms this winter, even in competition with the , lowest priced hay in many years. The I trench can be constructed on prai'ti-' cally any farm without any expense except the farmer's own labor, and the product that is coming out of those in use now prove that it is an ! elTicient means of preserving a sue-' culent feed. Good yields of corn can be secured, especially on ground broke from alfalfa. al-falfa. It is a means of greatly increasing in-creasing butterfat production per acre which is a necessity if we are to maintain main-tain the greatest number of livestock on Beaver county farms. Cirlyle Smith found that more than twice as much butterfat can be produced pro-duced in corn as in a poor, depleted stand of alfalfa, and his trench 's preserving it in first class shape. Old alfalfa broke this year and planted to small gain and reseeded to alfalfa in 1034. o |