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FEEDING TIPS from the
KAY-DEE NUTRITIONIST
GEORGIA EXPERIMENT STATION PROVES
New Phenothiazine
Block STOPS "Slow
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Nutritionist
Slow Drag" means slow gains, poor
breeding efficiency, death loss, and low
■milk production—caused by worm infesta
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Phenothiazine controls worms and Geor
gia Experiment Station has discovered the
new, easy way to feed Phenothiazine with
new Worth-Mor Miner-A-Zene Blocks. Article
in January "Farm Journal" says:
"There's o new Phenothiazine salt
block on the market that promises
to do away with the fuss and bother
of mixing the drug in with loose salt
to control parasites in cattle ond
sheep.
In a 124-doy test in Georgia on
winter pasture, nine Guernsey heif
ers averaged 1.23 grams daily from
the blocks, enough to hold down
the eggs and larva of internal para
sites.
The salt blocks used In Georgia
tests are made by the Kay-Dee Feed
Co., Sioux City, Iowa.
D. M. BAIRD,
Georgia Experiment Station
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Nearly all beef and dairy cattle as well
os sheep, are infested with worms, causing
costly "Slow. Drag." Stop it with Miner-A
Zene Phenothiazine blocks. CatHe and
sheep lick |ust the amount of minerals, salt
and Phenothiazine they need at less than
$1.00 per head, per year. Seven national
tests show an average return of $12.54
for every $1.00 spent on Phenothiazine.
Tests on cattle over a 167-day period
show a 62 pound extra gain when fed
Phenothiazine. Eliminates drenchina *. • «
Stops worms in their tracks.
Miner-A-Zene blocks are absolutely safe
for young calves, lambs, pregnant ewes.
■ Get the facts on Worth-Mor Miner-A-Zene
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Tetanus Requires
Prompt Treatment
MONTANA RURAL HEALTH
COMMITTEE
FEARFUL ARE THE images con
'jured up by the word 'lockjaw'* for
most of us who have never seen a suf
ferer with this disease. And it is one
of the few conditions for which the
personal experience of contact with
a case adds to our fear. ■
A few years ago there was a regular
ly occurring epidemic of cases follow
ing each Fourth of July celebration.
Safe and Sane Fourths'* have con
siderably helped to make the condi
tion uncommon.
To understand why the avoidance of
firseworks could help to eradicate a
disease which is due to infection with
a bacterium (which is a normal in
habitant of the intestinal tract of horses
and man) requires some knowledge of
the germ itself. The germ or bacillus
of tetanus is one of those Jekyll and
Hyde creatures with the faculty of
changing into a dormant form, when
conditions are not favorable for its
growth. This is somewhat like the seed
form of higher plants, and in it the
germ can easily weather a variety of
severe conditions that would kill off
the adult form. These conditions in
clude heat, cold, chemicals, and par
ticularly prolonged drying.
r Thus after the bacilli are spread
about in animal and human excreta,
wide areas are contaminated with the
spores, and in fact any wound sustained
in the street or field, and particularly
on fertilized fields or near a barnyard,
must be considered to be infected with
tetanus bacteria.
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Puncture Wounds Dangerous
Another pecularity of the germ is
that it grows best, and by choice, where
free oxygen is absent or reduced in con
centration. And this is really the crux
of the situation, for it means that if the
spores are introduced into a wound that
is closed to the air, conditions are ideal
for growth of the tetanus organisms,
production of their toxin, and develop
ment of the disease. And it so happens
that the puncture wounds caused by
driving grains of powder or gravel
from exploding firecrackers furnish
many such conditions. Wounds by splin
ters and nails, and the wounds of shrap
nel or shell fragments under war con
ditions are sources of tetanus.
When the growth of the bacteria Is
thus established, toxin is produced
and this poisons the central nervous
system particularly, producing motor
nerve irritation and thus spasms of the
muscles supplied by these motor
nerves. The muscles most apt to be so
affected are those concerned with chew
ing—and thus the jaw may be actually
locked'* so that the patient must be
fed through a tube passed into the
stomach by way of the nose.
Death From Exhaustion
Other nerves and muscles become
affected and the spasms of all the
muscles may be produced, usually set
off by any noise or movement that
gives the least stimulation to the senses
of the shuddering, terror-stricken pa
tient. When death is caused it is some
times due to exhaustion from the pro
longed convulsive seizures.
For this reason the treatment in part
is concerned with the giving of seda
tives, and even anesthetics to relax
the muscles. But the most important
part of the treatment is saturating the
patient's system with antitoxin serum
—to neutralize the toxin already pro
duced. And second to this is the open
ing up and cleaning of the infected
wound where the toxin is being pro
duced-— to stop the poisoning process.
However, if there was ever an example
of the importance of prevention con
trasted to treatment, tetanus provides
it.
Proper opening and treating of ponc
tuas wounds, particularly those sus
tained in dirty, dusty surroundings, and
the giving of a small dose of antitoxin
immediately, offer protection so uni
form and sure that every case of teta
nus is a challenge to our education in
and use of preventive medicine.
State Blood Donors
Give 20,092 Pints
MONTANA CITIZENS donated a total
of 20,092 pints of blood during 1954,
according to a report from the Amer
ican Red Cross. Of that total 8,014 pints
were shipped for defense purposes.
Forty-seven hospitals in the state,
including the two veteran's hospitals
and the Great Falls Air Base hospital,
used 9,461 pints of whole blood, 750
units of serum albumin and 119 units
of plasma.
Twenty-one pints were sent out of
the state for use by Montana residents,
89 pints were sent to non-participating
hospitals in Montana and 2,617 pints
were used for making derivative or sent
out of state, the report said.
Never try to pile too many dishes in
the dishpan or sink at wie time. It's not
only safer, but it's also cleaner, to wash
a few at a time—and then whip up a
pan of fresh, hot soapsuds for the next
load.
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