White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-29


just starting in the dairy industry,
emphasized.
The efforts of the board TO develop
some satisfactory policy for the con-
troll of losses on the range from theft
and TIE difficulties encountered ow-
ing to the present unsatisfactory sys-
tenn of brand recording and lack of
a public sentiment favorable to the
protection Of the livestock mans
property were gone into. 1t was
pointed out that Nevada Is now the
only state in the Union wherein
brands are recorded In the separate
counties. The modern plan, and that
which has been found to work out
most satisfactorily, Is the recording
of brands centralized in one Office
for the entire state. By this means
conflicts in brands can be largely
avoided and a statewide brand Lock
published.
DIR. w. w. Hits, district veterinari-
an of the state board OF stock COM
missioners, stationed at Elko and
assigned to the work in White Pine,
Elko, Eureka and Lander counties,
was the next speaker. He called at
t~ention to the fact that this section
Of the country was unusually free
from contagious diseases. especially
in regard to tuberculosis. He ex-
planned that the regulations require
that breeding cattle imported into
the state must be tuberculin tested
and a permit obtained from the state
quarantine officer TO bring In the cat
tie. Due to the fact that no indem-
nifty can be paid on tuberculous cat
tie recently brought into the state,
he cautioned the buyers to make their
purchases subject to the sixty-day re-
test by Nevada officials, thereby pro-
tecting themselves in case the ami
mails should be found tubercular sub
sequent to their arrival.
He took up the subject of the dis
ease commonly known as "blackleg'
and after a brief discussion of the
symptoms, which he said usually ap-
pear as a lameness followed by a
swelling of the affected parts, char
acterized by the formation of gas
under the skin, which when rubbed
produced a cracking sound resem-
bling the rustling Of a piece of paper.
The disease. he said, could be pre-.
vented by two methods, namely, the
pill vaccine and the liquid %aggressin.
He recommended the aggressin as
hafnp uafar IN moo and prOdnainU n
longer immunity.
Or. Hits will go to the Cleveland
ranch, in Spring valley. today where
he will y~accinate a large bunch of
calves as a prevention against black
leg, and he said he would while there
be glad to demonstrate the use of
the aggressin TO all who may be-in-
terested and carr TO go there to wit
ness the work.
V. r. Scott, professor of dairyin
at the University of Nevada. spoke
principally on the marketing of dairy
products and the profits Il be de-
rived therefrom. He pointed out
that every farmer is his own best
market so far as he can consume the
products from his dairy cows. These
dairy COWS in the state of Nevada,
he said. are bringing their owners
from $40 10 $3.50 per ton for tie hay
which they consume. These figures
are based on the price that city reo-
pie would have to pay for the same
amount CT dairy products-that is,
IL cents per quart for milk and 40
cents per pint for whipping cream,
which are the prevailing prices at
Reno.
From statistics gathered by Pro-
fessor Scott he compared The prod
uet from the best cow in the state
with that OF the poorest and likewise
from an average herd of seventeen
head. which he said was composed OF
Just average cows. The best COW
produced SIG pounds of butter fat.
which at the market price brought
1870. After paying 1920 for grain
and $50 for labor this cow returned
TO her owner SIS per ton for the hay
which she consumed. The poorest
cow he was able to obtain records on
produced eighty pounds OF butter fat
and at a labor charge OF s32 left
her owner with sf.06 per ton for the
hay she consumed. The average herd
brought to its owner s21.SC per ton
for the hay consumed.
Professor Scott then discussed the
relative profits obtained by the vari-
Gus methods OF marketing dairy
products. Basing his calculations
entirely on butterfat, he showed that
by retailing milk in town the farmer
could net s1.10 per pound of fat BY
making butter and selling the butter