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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-10-28, Page 24Advertising... tells YOU what's new. CANADIAN ADVERTISING ADVISORY BOARD r Please send me information on q Agricultural Business Management ID Animal Health Technology Elf.9pcl servicq Management Community Home Economics Name Address Postal Code TWO YEAR DIPLOMA PROGRAMS IN 1. Agricultural Business Management 2. Animal Health Technology 3. Food Service Management 4. Community Home Economics • Exciting job opportunities in all areas of the agriculture and food industries. • Residence living with good recreation facilities. • Co-educational atmosphere. • Personal attention to students. • Well located in an excellent agricultural area Clip and return for more information to: Centralia College of Ag. Technology, Huron Park, Ontario NOM 1Y0 HURON PARK TELEPHONE ( 519) 228-6691 BEV MORGAN & SONS RR 1 HENSALL 235.1487 Dr. Dean Hodge, Head of Ralston Purina s Beef Research will be the keynote speaker. 1111.11.1111,11,11.11.111.11.110111.1111 • • • • MI • II NI II I II The Mitchell Community Centre is on North Wellington Street See a Tramisol Worming Demonstration See 40 newly arrived western calves starting on a full feed of Purina Receiving Chow for a 21 day program. —"Early Bird" Door Prizes 1 1 A.M. SHARP! —Enjoy a hot beef dinner and visit with other top beef producers! ,—Learn the latest beef feeding information on two large feedlots. CALL YOUR PURINA DEALER TODAY - BUSES & MEALS HAVE TO BE ORDERED IN ADVANCE THANK YOU ION a:NY. II 1111 III III III III • II II II III II III II III PURINA 1 CHOWS • Your Purina Dealer Invites You To A A. . . . Tour a new 600 head capacity lull slot beef barn See steers finishing on a new ingredient widely fed in the U S BEEF PRODUCERS FEEDLOT BUS TOUR! 0 THE PLACE:- THE DATE:- THE TIMES:- The Mitchell Community Centre Tuesday, November 2nd, 1976 Starting Time 10:30 a.m. Finishing Time 3:00 p.m. BRUCEFIELD 482.9823 ZURICH 236.4393 YOUR CO-OP ANIMAL HEALTH CARE CENTRE 11\11\l‘k Contains two antibiotics and 8 vitamins to CO-OP vitamin and get baby pigs off to a good start. Save antibiotic pig booster 1 8 .00 twelve ml tubes, $3.36 when you buy by the case of 24 402-360 ea. vial 89c Case of 24' injectable 365 Iron per Protects piglets against iron deficiency. Buy by the case and save! Just $3.25/100 ml vial in case of 12 402-320 Tylan 200 1 42 super 7 pack Qa. in pack Effective for treating calf pneumonia plus vibronic sysentery in swine. 100 ml vials. Buy 6 get 1 free 402-385 Penicillin streptomycin. 299 Per • vial A 2 antibiotic combination protects against shipping fever, bronchitis,, ° pneumonia-type infections. Save by the case . $2.79/ 100 ml vial in case of 25. -Terramycin 100 fa35 • 250 ml vials each Contains 100 mg of ter- ramycin per ml. Extremely - effective for a wide range of infectious diseases. 402-398 Vitamin ADE 295 • 100 per vial ml Aids animals over shipping stress and improving feed efficiency. Gives im- mediate high level of vita- min 'A in liver, Save by the case.$2.75/vial in case of , Divoson. An iodine product that cleans and sanitizes dairy equipment. Ideal udder wash. 1 gal. Farm Sale Price ... $ 8.49 5 gal. Farm Sale Price $38.49 injectable Hibitane 8" teat dip y 160 II. oz. Contains chlorhexidine to prevent build-up pf mastitis. BONUS: With every 4-gallons you receive 1 Hibitane sans-cone. 402-170 Hibitane '1199 Udder Wash *0 gallon An .all-purpose germicide for external and , internal use. Active against fungi, bacteria and virus, 160-oz ° 402.175 Tramisol Cattle 24 75 Wormer Oblett One oblet will treat a 450 to 750 lb, animal, Administer with balling gun. Arso in- jectable and pellets available. 402-270 EXETER DISTRICT CO-OP Telephone 235-2081 HENSALL DISTRICT CO-OP Page 24 Times-Advocate, October 28, 1976 May need permits for farm buildings Clinton man on young farmer panel Watch for disease AN ATTIC TREASURE — Ivor Small is shown with an Elgin Watch painting which he found recently in the attic of his Main street south home. The paper on the back of the frame was from a November 23, i 881 issue of the New York Sun. T-A photo A change in provincial legislation will permit municipalities to require that individuals wishing to construct farm buildings apply for a per- The amendment to section 2.9,2, of the Ontario Building Code was announced by Sidney'B. Handleman, minister of con- sumer and commercial relations. "This is in keeping with our policy that the building code would not be used to transfer power from the municipalities to the province," the minister said. .0As the code read previously, individuals constructing farm buildings for personal use were exempted from applying for a permit and from satisfying the structural requirements of the code, provided the buildings are not intended for residential use. Only buildings manufactured for sale to a farmer and erected by someone other than the far- mer had been required to comply with the provisions of the code until now. "Phis was done to afford far- mers third, party protection without interfering with their ability to do the work them- selves," Mr. Handleman said, The minister pointed out that the amendment is in response to the situation faced by a number of municipalities where permits aid in the enforcement of local zoning by-laws and expedite the addition of new buildings to the assessment rolls. "Alternately, the enforcement of zoning and obtaining in- formation for assessment pur- poses could involve logging considerable mileage. This would tend to increase municipal ex- penditure at a time when con- straint on spending is being sought by all levels of govern- ment," This is the time of year when cattle are being taken off grass and stabled or put in feedlots for the coming winter. It's also the time of year when cattle dis- eases seem to strike with greater intensity. The stress of changing from outdoor weather and grass feed to, in some cases, indoor poorly ventilated quarters and dry feed can cause severe stress. And, of course, when calves are weaned from their dams there is even ex- tra stress on the calves, and of course lots of noise from both. Many farmers, in an attempt to relieve the extra stress on the cattle, try to make the adjust- ment gradually in order to avoid shipping fever or IBR or the host of other diseases common at this time of year. The new "wonder drugs" have helped greatly to reduce high temperatures that so often ac- company colds or shipping fever. We have had our share of sickness among new cattle brought to our feedlot in past years even though we thought we were taking useful precautions, Even then we seemed to run into colds and shipping fever symp- toms, even IBR, after the cattle had been on the farm a couple of weeks. This year after consultation with the Veterinary Services Branch of OMAF, our local veterinary clinic and feed com- panies, we are vaccinating all cattle intramuscularly with IBR vaccine, and treating for in- testinal parasites (worms) and using a warble fly control treat- ment as soon as the cattle arrive at the farm. So far .we've had good results. We've found the IBR vaccina- tion takes about a week to react. Some of the cattle go off feed, some run a moderately high temperature; but if treated with an appropriate drug their temperature comes back to nor- mal within hours. Most, of those vaccinated against IBR are pret- ty dull for a few days, but we've found that after two weeks they are on full feed and so far we've had no severe colds among the cattle as was the case in previous years. We hope the rest of the cattle coming to the farm, most- ly this year's calves, will react as favourably. There has been increasing emphasis placed on internal parasites in cattle in recent years. We were hard to convince that we had problems, but in the winter of 1976 we took fecal samples from several cattle for analysis to Centralia OMAF Laboratory, Almost every sam- ple indicated intestinal worms. We immediately put all the young stock (not those nearly ready for market) through the cattle squeeze chute treating them with an injectable solution applied just under the skin, We think it was a worthwhile invest- ment, and are treating all new cattle coming to the farm this year as soon as they arrive. The September issue of the On- tario Milk Producer carries a special feature supplement en- titled "War on Warbles". It is written by the OMAF staff and is well worth filing for future infor- mation. Perhaps there are few parasites that cause greater losses to cattlemen, be they dairy or beef, than warble fly grubs. The discomfort of the grubs eating a hole through the animal's hide, through which the grub emerges in late winter or early spring only to begin the life cycle of this insidious pest for another year, must be real agony for the unfortunate animal. Anyone who has taken the trou- ble to see untreated beef car- casses hanging in a cooler after the hide has been removed will see the serious damage caused to the meat which must be trimmed away. And of course hides full of warble holes are greatly reduced in value. Research done on warble con- trol treated cattle in comparison with untreated check lots, proves conclusively that even at today's By BILL BROADWORTH Associate Agricultural Representative for Huron County The production- potential of a dairy herd is equal to the genes comprising the genetic level of the herd. Simply, the better the genetic level — the better the production potential. Successful athletic teams have top notch scouts, owners, managers and coaches. Scouts, managers and owners recruit and sign talented players. The depressed beef prices° treated cattle returned a handsome profit over untreated cattle. There is no question that grubby cattle are discounted by packer buyers and rightly so. Several methods of warble grub control are on the market, We have tried many of them on our farm over the last 25 years. Most of them have worked well, We now use "Spot-On" and found that it gave us virtually 100% control on last year's cattle. It is certainly easy to apply and saves the stress of getting the cattle soaking wet in cold weather en- tailed in the old spray method. In past years we ran into some problems of sick cattle, and even some paralysis of the hind quarters, if we left the cattle too late in the fall or early winter for treatment. It pays to read the directions carefully, particularly treating as early as possible in the fall. Caution must be used in treating dairy cows where milk is being sold. Only dry dairy cows should be treated and at least several days before calv- ing. The new systemics for warble grub control are a real boon to cattlemen. It's hard to unders- tand why more cattlemen aren't using them since they also are useful in controlling cattle lice which are another source not only of terrible irritation to the animals but are a serious cost to the cattle owner. Like most other farm manage- ment decisions parasite control depends on timing. A competent farm manager will want to dis- cuss such matters with his local veterinarian and/or feed com- pany fieldman, But the impor- tant thing is to get the job done — now! coaches must create a system to have the players express their talent. It's no different on the dairy farm except the dairyman is often the scout, manager, ,owner'and 'coach when it comes 'to breeding management. He must recruit superior genes and manage his genetic potential to realize the production potential of his herd. Sire selection is a' very im- portant part of dairy breeding management. Fortunately, a great deal of help is available to assist dairymen in sire selection. Scientists and the computer continually assemble and in- terpl'et volumes of sire data. Breed associations and A.I. units organize the data for their breed magazines and sire catalogues. Such information includes type and production ratings for sires, The secret is how to use the available information in sire selection. Individual A.I. sire catalogues, dairy cattle specialists, Ministry of Agriculture and. Food personnel can provide help in sire selection. Breed Associations have field- men who are quite familiar with available sires. Do not neglect farm magazines, particularly Hoard's Dairymen. However, it seems the bit problem is not how to use A.I. but rather whether or not to use A.I. sires. The proven sires are available through A.I. units. It's amazing just how many un- proven bulls occupy space in many dairy barns. Reasons given for not using A.I. generally reveal such dairymen are having breeding problems, haven't really thought of using A.1. or this year — are trying to cut costs. These may seem very legitimate reasons for the individual dairymen. However, the simple fact is that most very successful dairymen use A.I. with quite good success. In most cases the above reasons indicate the problem is management not A.I. This year, some dairymen have quit using A.I. as a way of cutting costs, Such a management decision is questionable. The simple chore of telephoning the A.!, office to request a proven bull for use in the herd is easy, It's the surest way of improving the genetic level in the dairy herd. To replace A.1, with an unproven bull is questionable management and could be disastrous, Good dairymen continually strive to improve the genetic level in their herds. Intelligent sire selection is essential for genetic improvement, The best sire selection involves using sires available through Ad. units, Don't neglect sound breeding management, Agriculture and Food Minister William Newman has announced the membership of the newly- established Minister's AdvisOry Committee of Young Farmers, The 10-member committee's first meeting was held this week in Toronto. The members elected John Hart, of Woodstock, as chairman, Other members are Terry Malcolm, of Janetville; John Core, of Wyoming; Steve Pallett, of Pefferlaw; Bill Knowles, 'of Langton; Alain Lavigne, of Ste. Anne de Prescott; Don Belluz, of Thunder Bay; Frank Haasen, of Timmins; John Maaskant, of Clinton; and Lyle Vanclief, Of Amelias burg, The minister's advisory committee will address itself to problems particularly related to young farmers, PLIDP1747107 keepAcekk&Offinatm Changing herd sire a questionable move