Montana farmer-stockman. [volume], November 15, 1949, Page 22, Image 22

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Has both cutler head and heavy swing hammers.
Adjustable Drop-Apron Feeder works In any
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It's The
FARMERS UNION
LIVESTOCK COMMISSION
Working For You and With You
Lloyd Sebby, Cattle Salesman
Clair Pendergast, Hog Sales
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Art Coe, Sheep Salesman
P. J. DALY, Manager
V et erinar y Department
Mineral Mixtures
for Montana
By DR. HOWARD WELCH
WE ALL RECOGNIZE the fact
that the animal body requires a lot
of various substances to keep it
functioning. It needs plenty of
feed—proteins, carbohydrates, fats,
etc., and it needs minerals, phos
phorus, lime, sulphur, iron, etc., for
proper nutrition. And with few ex
ceptions, every item en this long
list, is found in abundance in the
grasses and forage plants in our pas
tures and ranges.
Some of these minerals are used'
and needed in such small amounts
that they are called "trace" min
erals, that is, in chemical analysis of
feeds they are found in amounts too
small to measure, and the chemist
reports a "trace" of iron, or iodine,
of manganese, of cobalt, etc.
The other minerals, phosphorus,
sodium, calcium, sulphur, etc., are
found in relatively large amounts.
All these minerals are important,
some more so than others. When
they are lacking in the diet, there
may be serious consequences.
What Minerals Are Lacking?
But what are these minerals that
are deficient, and where do these
shortages occur? Everybody supplies
salt (sodium chloride) to stock. They
like it, they are used to it, and prob
ably they need it, though both sheep
and cattle have been run for some
time without it, without measur
ably bad results.
Phosphorus we must have, and
this mineral is decidedly short in
many large areas, and the shortage
is more marked in very dry years.
The lack of phosphorus is followed
by general unthriftiness, by de
praved appetite, the cattle licking
dirt and rocks, chewing bones and
corral poles. There are some areas
of extreme phosphorus deficiency,
many areas on the border line of de
ficiency.
Iodine, one of the trace minerals,
is deficient mainly east of the divide,
in large areas. The lack of iodine
does not affect the health of mature
animals, but results in goiter in the
very young calves, lambs and pigs.
But here we run out of definite
information or proof of any other
deficiencies.
It is true that it costs very little
to add a combination of these trace
minerals to the salt in the salt box,
and it may be regarded as a sort of
general insurance against some un
known disaster.
So we have an iodine deficiency,
remedied easily by the use of iodized
salt. We have a phosphorous de
ficiency, remedied by bone-meal.
In 9 cases out of 10, a sack of iodized
salt and a sack of bone-meal, thor
oughly mixed, will make a complete
mineral supplement for Montana.
Stockmen should remember that
the principal item of value in these
mixtures is phosphorus, and that no
mixture containing less than 10
percent phosphorus is worth the
money. Statements frequently made
by salesmen that their product will
prevent bloat in cattle, are pure
nonsense.
New cattle brought on the farm
should have individual inspection
every day for two or three weeks.
Keep them separate from your other
cattle for that period if you can.
CUTTER
Market and sale time to some people
may mean quick harvest money in
the sock and fiesta for a week, but
for you ranchers the problem of get«
ting cattle to market is fulljpf head^
.Che. r fsg% -?
Shipping fever is one of the biggest
pains in the neck to most cattlemen.
Although it's easi ly prevented , just
too many animals die from it each
Here's the story in a durham sack:
Shipping fever is an acute disease
and a rapid killer. It gets its name
because it usually strikes when the
animals are low in vitality from
overcrowding, irregular feeding and
watering, hard driving, and the gen
eral excitement and hassel of getting
to the sale yard. Most common form
of the disease resembles pneumonia,
and animals stand with forelegs wide
apart to breathe easier. They lose
flesh rapidly, abdomens become
tucked up . and eves become sunken.
There's no set time schedule for mor
tality in shipping fever — it might
take days or weeks. Penicillin and
serum have been used with some
success, but the cost and nurse
maiding involved will sure stick out
like a sore thumb when you compare
them with the modest price of pre
ventive vaccination.* Prevention is
the smartest move you can make. It
will save you money.
Field reports on Blacklegol "S,
Cutter's combined vaccine against
both blackleg and malignant edema,
continue to make Cutter glow with
pride. In addition to potent, proven
vaccine strains, Blacklegol "S" ha*
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vaccine and hold in tissues longer
for higher, enduring immunity. It's
an exclusive plus value, found only
In Cutter vaccines, one as worth hav
ing as the insurance on your pick-up
truck.
See you next month.
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