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. WI 4-H SHOWMAN

manager of~ the Charlottetown branch of the Bank of

R. G. Boyne,

Montreal; presents —a_ silver trophy

the showmanship

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for 4-H Club members

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Clyde River for winning at the Easter Bee!

Show and Sale here. Edward Hickey, Malpeque won the 4-H showmanship competition for first vear competitors and also had

steer of the show.

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Program aims at reducing

TB in swine and poultry

. Tuberculosis today has been felegated to the status of a rela- fively uncommon disease in bumans. thanks-to tremendous gtrides in medical science.

and discuss control measures.

Indicative of the downturn of tuberculosis in swine and poul- try are some statistics for 1942 and 1962.

__!_A_similar_success_s-t.o.ry—ap-..In_1942...swine_carcasses con- _

| tuberculosis in poultry

the champion 4-H_ club

| the glands of the heaq and neck,

y produces intestinal lesions and'the germ is spread in the droppings. |. Good management practices and the simple rule of keeping ‘poultry flocks away from swine herds would help considerably in eliminating t disease from hogs. Control_of_tuberculosis_in_pgil!

try also requires good manage- 4€@S. Loc ause..

ance

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plies to Canadian cattle: A test- demned because of TB amount- ; the dikeas gan-

fnzg and eradication program ed to. .07 per cent of the year's eee oe tNgase a torat-horsta i

fmals Branch, Canada Depart- tment of Agriculture. has re- uced. the incidence of bovine TB to less than 91 per cent ' Good results are also being Obtained from an_ educational program aimed at reducing the disease among swine ‘and spoul- Federal inspectors statidffed at meat. packing plants notify fhe Branch's Contagious Dis- eases Division of all swine and poultry carcasses having tuber- bel lesions. The reports are ollowed up with visits to the farms of origin to interview the @wners. check their livestock ps 7

ughter— plants. By 1962. this figure had been reduced to 02 per cent.

In the case of poultry. carcas- ses condemned because of the disease amounted to 0.7 per cent of the year’s total kill in 1942. By 1962 the figure had slip- ped to 01 per cent.

An estimated 85 per cent of the TB found in hogs is of the avian type — most of it spread by poultry that are allowed free access tn hog pens, observes Dr. JF. Lancaster, a specialist in poultry diseases with the Health of Animals Branch.

Unlike TB in swine which usu- ally causes localized lesions in

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ism is difficult to eratlicate

Resistant to atmospheric con- ditions and to freezing. the germ ‘may survive for several years in the soil of the poultry rance. in manure. and in dust and dirt in the poultry houses

Good management. clean pre- mises and the trend toward the use of battery cages for -laving fowls are the big factors in the decline of tuberculosis in poul try, Dr. Lancaster points out.

No, the pigs at CDA’s Nappan, NS. research branch haven't taken to smoking, but they are seting a little nicotine in thir feed. It's to make them leaner

:/ and to save on the cost of feed.

Dr. Hugh M. Cunningham of Nappan began seven years ago to study ways of making pigs leaner. Now he has found that nicotine, by stimulating the re-

| lease of a hormone from the an- | imals

adrenal glands. helps to

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the crowth of lean tissue. The researcher gives the re-

| sults of tests to show that 5 p._pm | (parts per million) of | sulfate mixed in feed for pigs led to ~~ increases. “

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nicotine

Five to I7 per cent in the ratio of protein to fat in carcass.

Ten to 20 per cent in number of Grade A. carcasses,

Five to eight per cent in’ Rec- ‘ord of Performance score,

Two to five per cent in feed efficiency; * A slight ‘increase

in dressing percentace . -

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CRESTON. B. C., Saratoga, a southern variety, produced the biggest yields in tests of brome grass varieties on the silty clay soil found in the Creston area.

The tests, spanning five years, were carried out at*Canada De- partment. of Agriculture’s re- search substation at Creston.

Nine varieties. incindi southern and synthetic types, were Wested, reports F. M.

tion. The_northern and synthetic

varieties were _of Canadian origin: the southern varieties were ones . introduced in the

United States.

All varieties were cut twice during the growing season.

Saratoga led in size of yield, producing 5.6 tons of dry mat- ter per acre. In terms of hay vield, it amounted to about 6.4 tonk, the 15 per cent difference being approximately the amount of moisture in cured hay:

Manchar was a close ‘second

and the vweriety actually pro-

duced the highest yield of sec- ond cut forage Irty

of the total seasonal Manchar yield came from this cutting.

Seeding of all varieties was carried out at a rate of 12 pounds per acre on well-prepar- ed seedbeds.

A complete fertilizer (6-24-24) was applied prior to seeding and ammonium nitrate (33-00) was used every second vear. Both were applied at a rate of 100 pounds per acre ‘

But, says Mr. Chapman. ob servations during .the tests in- dicate that even better results could be obained by annual applications of ammonium _nit- rate. :

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‘Produce lean pigs _onnicotine feeding

! The net profit per pig was $1.30. to $1.70 more than profit on the “controls’— pics receiving the same feed but without nico- tine.

Dr. Cunningham began his studies with the knowledge that the hormone adrenalin moves body fat into: the blood stream _to be used for energy.

Energy equals protein which ‘in pigs, is the desirable lean | flesh.

CORN OI HELPED.

But adrenalin injected, into pigs was only active for a few minutes. By mixing it with corn oil amd injecting the mixture un- der the skin of pigs he found he could prolong the effects of the hormone for several hours Daily injections over a period of six to nine weeks not only great- ly reduced the fat content of the

body but, for the first time with Jhent, 20 pigs were individually «eo Departmental ‘Test brome shifts at farm —

| R. C. Parent. director of the

| Experimental Farm here has re- vealed that the winter works Projects being undertaken at the farm are nearing completion | amd the proposed shifting of cer- tain sections of the research di- vision will soon take place. A new Laboratory for: Soils Research has been built gn the second floor of the Science ‘La-.

bor the. Malpeque Road... | This is in space -formerly oc- cupied by the Seed Potato In- Chapman, of the research sta- |

spection Service. The Laboratory Dr. Lloyd MacLeod and his support- ing staff from the Experimental Farm at N. . Dr. MacLeod expects to be transferred in the early Fall and ready for a full | year’s work in 1966. | The Seed Potato Inspection | Service has been moved to the | Main ¢"fice on the Experimental Farm proper. on the Mount Ed- ward Road. and a new Labora- tory constructed for the exam- ination of seed _ potatoes for

"Farmers desirous of visiting the Potato Inspectors should cail at

The offices of the Director and

Ringrot and other diseases

yany animal, encouraged the!’

formation of protein

Since farmers could not be ex- | pected to inject pigs every day. a search was‘made for a com- | pound that could be added to the feed to bring about the release of the adrenalin within the body. | Nicotine has been found to do_ this job.

Dr. Cunningham has complet- ed four experiments with chick- | ens and six with swine. Although the differences between the livestock tested and those used as controls in the tests were not always large.: the chemical had a beneficial effect in all cases.

Forty pigs were individually fed_at different levels of nico-_ tine from weaning up to market weight. The group receiving five p.p.m. netted $7.05 more per ton ‘of feed than the controls.. This resulted from a combination of 10 per cent increase in Grade A carcasses and a five per cent in- crease in feed efficiency. (in ad- dition to the federal $3 premium paid on éach grade A carcass, Nova Scotia producers receive an extra dollar from the provin- cial government

In another more recent experi-

administrative staff of the Ex- perimental Farm have been ‘set up in Ravenwood House as have also the former libraries at the Research Laboratory and Ex- perimental Farm. Ravenwood House, with very slight changes, has been found to be admirably suited for ~-the administrative staff and Library.

During the past winter. two traiming courses for. the ‘im: provement—of—the—-staff—have-4 been ‘held at the Experimental Farm. One has dealth with Math- ematics and Statistics with 15 candidates and the second one for Conversational French with ten candidates. Last year a sim- ilar group studied Chemistry._It has been found that this is an ideal way to keep the interest of the staff at.a high level and up- to-date.

Next week a Seminar on Mic- roscopy and Photomicrography will be conducted at the Experi. mental Farm by Mr. Stanley -‘Klosevych_of the _bio-Graphics Section, Ottawa.-This Seminar is open..to.the.staff-at-the-Experi-4 mental Farm and from other Laboratories in various govern-

self-fed a control ration while their litter mates were self-fed the same ration containing five p.p.m. nicotine. Eighteen of the latter graded A compared with only 14 of the controls. When the premiums were added to a

| two per cent saving in feed effic- iency, the net profit and savings |

of the nicotine-fed group amoun- ted $5.71 per ton of feed. Since it costs only about three cents per. ton of feed’ to add nicotine sul- fate ‘which may be supplied by, %2 ounce of “Blackleaf 40" per ton) the cost of the supplement scarcely has to be considered.

| “Se what can you lose?” is Dr.

Ciinningham'’s comment. The researcher hastens to add.

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however, that the use of nico tine as‘ a feed additive must first be cleared with the Food and Drug Division of the Dg, partment of Health and Welfare Nicotine is rapidly eliminated from the body and, since very tiny amounts are used, there should be: little difficulty in ob- taining permission for its use in feeds.

Dr. Cunningham said he would like to see nicotine tested in oth- er laboratories for a more com- prehensive appraisal of its val- ue. The results obtained are not so great as those obtained with adrenalin and further tests are under-way at Nappan to im- prove its effectiveness

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