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Show it.' il',, '. 'f i I PREPARED BY AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR ANIMAL HEALTH ! NUTRITIONAL ILLS TAKING FARM TOLL Sn.pa.lled "d.-fioiency diseases" tamin D deficiency, especially when there is also a shortage of lime and phosphorus. All too often, livestock owners mistake deficiency dises jes foi common livestock diseases, or toi This looks like mange, but Is actually ac-tually Vitamin B deficiency. sickness caused by internal parasites. para-sites. Whenever animals that are free from parasites and from germ diseases fail to make proper gams a mineral or vitamin deficiency should be suspected. Practically all of these deficiency diseases can be cured if they are diagnosed and treated properly. However, accurate diagnosis is almost al-most Impossible for the untrained person, and in cases like this should be left to the judgment and experience of a trained veterinarian. seem to be paying an increasingly prominent part in causing livestock losses these days. Cropping over a period of years has depleted soils of many mineral elements important to livestock health. Alsu, because farm animals are dependent on their owners for rations, nutritional deficiencies often of-ten occur when the owners fail to provide proper ration balance. Vitamin Vita-min deficiencies rank equally with minerals as causes of poor health, unprofitable gains, and premature deaths. ' Vitamin A, found in green forage and grasses is probably th. most essential for animals. Livestock deprived de-prived of vitamin A develop blindness, blind-ness, sterility, and water logging of the tissues. Vitamin E, is no longer considered so Important, because be-cause many farm animals synthe-sh synthe-sh it from bacteria in their digestive diges-tive tracts. Vitamin C, the anti-scurvy factor fac-tor of orange Juice, is often related to functional sterility of cattle and horses. Vitamin D, the sunlight vitamin, is very Important. Animal Anim-al keDt indoors and fed.no sun-fured sun-fured hay may develop fits and easflv Wken tote . because of v- |