Show agent urges care with loose metal according Acco iding to the statement of a veterinarian recently ap approximately aroxi 75 7 per cent of the death losses in dairy cattle are due to hardware and foreign bodies which the cows have eaten sometime during their lifetime according to county agent nat taggart farmers are urged to be particularly careful about their feed mangers corals corald and hay and grain fields not to leave old wire nails or small metal objects laying around with so many da dairymen i iry men bailing and chopping hay and grain chances are increased that any loose piece of wire laying around the coral will be hauled to the field with manure and then picked by by the bailer or chopper to be fed to the animals during the winter time just taking the simple precaution to discard old nails bailing and barbed wire where it can be hauled away to the dump grounds may save the lives of many dairy cattle in the future mr air taggart said |