Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01
SERVICE

I fornia dairymen have been strong
supporters of the dairy herd i'm
provement program, as this partici-
patton shows. In most California
counties, dairymen are on the wait
ing list to have their COWS tested If
additional personnel can be secured
to handle the work.
I'm cases where it is impossible
for dairymen to secure butterfat
production records through dairy
herd improvement association pro-
gram, it would be desirable for them
to at least keep milk weight records
for each COW in the herd, as a basis
for breeding, feeding and culling
within their herds
New machinery supplies for farm
ers in 1945 will not meet essential
needs.
The War Food Administration
cautions farmers that this condition
will exist even if manufacturing
schedules are met, and states that
farmers will not be able to buy as
much new machinery as they will
need.
The demand will be very heavy
| for more new tractors, side delivery
rakes, combines, or other haying
and harvesting equipment, but there
will be no more CT this equipment
available than during the 1914 crop
year. For the first quarter of the
production year, manufacturers en-
countered problems in meeting fam
machinery schedules, and were
about 25 per cent behind schedule
in production of new machinery ex-
elusive of wheel tractors, repair
parts and attachments.
Scheduled production would fur
nish faimers with about the same
amount of new machinery and at
tachments as they had in the 1914
crop year and nearly $4,000 00O
more in repair parts. About 90 per
cent of the new farm machines, eX-
cept tractors, will go to American
farmers with 10 per cent scheduled
to go abroad, per cent in CONNER
cial exports and per cent through
lend-leaSe.
An effective, economical n q
easily prepared dipping solution for
Kidding sheep of ticks is recon-
mended by Dr.. Kenneth G.. Mckay,
specialist in veterinary science of
the Agricultural Extension Service,
University of California. 1t was de-
veloped in recent research by vet
erinarianS Of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
The new dip is prepared by mix
ing six ounces of derric powder
containing per cent of rotenone
with little water to make thin
paste. Add to 100 gallons of water.
Cube powder may be used instead OF
derris powder because both contain
the same effective tick-killing SUBJ
stance, rotenone.
Only limited supply cf rotenone
in the form of cube powder is now
being imported into the United
States. but control of sheep ticks is
one of the uses for which rotenone
may be allocated by the War Pre-
duction Board. Dr. Mckay says that
flock owners may arrange for such
ALLEGATION through STATE livestock
sanitary officials after fist deter
mining the quantity of the material
needed.
This new dip saves labor, lot only
tscause it is cay to prepare, but
cne dipping is enough. Most other
sheep dips commonly used in the
past require two applications about
"a days apart. The first dipping
killed the adult ticks, and he Sec
ond killed the new crop t nat de-
ve!oped in the meantime from the
puEae. The rotenone in the new dip
kills beth at the same time and le-
mains effective in the fleece for sew
eral weeks. Unheated water from
practically any source may be used
and this is another advantage in
this method. Alkali and enough clay
to make the water muddy does not
reduce the effectiveness of the new
dip for killing ticks. Pure, clean
water is preferable, however
On the average, the new dip will
cost less than 20 cents per hundred
gallons. Experiments showed that
the average sheep carried about
three-fifths OF gallon OF dip out
of the vat. This would mean re-
placement of 60 gallons of dip for
every 100 sheep.
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