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5 of IDEAL BARN TEMPERA
TURE IN WINTER
Winter dairy barn temperatures of around
50 degrees F. hove 1eng been considered
as satisfactory for milk production and
for comfort of cows as well as caretakers.
Support for this belief is now found in
the results of studies conducted by United
States Department of Agriculture and Uni
versity of Missouri in a climatic labera- ;
tory at Columbia, Mo., Barn Equipment As
sociation, Chicago, points cut.
With 12 cows in the laboratory, results
indicate that lowering temperature from
50 degrees F. to 40 degrees F. increased
feed consumption and butterfrt percentage,
but decreased somewhat the milk yield;
raising temperature from 80 degrees F.
to 95 degrees F. depressed milk production
feed consumption and body weight of cows.
This preliminary test shews that rising
temperatures are more detrimental to Hoi
steins and declining temperatures to Jer
seys. The effect of lowering temperatures
below 50 degrees F. is much less for both
breeds than the effect of rising tempera
tures above 50 degrees F.
The test results confirm the belief cf
f;ood dairymen that it pays to house dairy
cattle well in winter months and provide
shade in the summer. Cows kept in comfor
table stalls where they can be fed in ac
cordance with productivity will be safer
end produce mere winter profits than those
that have to contend wi th cold shelters.
A TYPHOID CARRIER HAS
BEEN FOUND
A Spenard woman has been Identifier! as a
typhoid '’carrier” and is now under obser
vation, Dr. Robert L. Smith, Assistant
S.onqjissicner of Health, announced today.
He explained that a ’’carrier” is a person
who harbors the germs within his body af
ter having typhoid fever, and thus unknow
ingly nay spread the disease.
The young mother was a neighbor of several
early Spenard cases and may be involved in
the present epidemic, health officials
stated. Bacteria from her specimens have
been sent to the Connunicable Disease
Center in Atlanta, Georgia to determine
if they are the same type as bacteria in
volved in the Anchorage outbreak* There
are twenty-four known types of typhoid
bacteria, Dr. Smith said, and only these
laboratory tests can indicate if the cut
break was caused by this ’’carrier”.
At present 17 typhoid cases have been con
firmed in the Anchorage area and feur sus
pected cases are undergoing laboratory
tests. Public health nurses are still
checking all school absences to find sus
picius cases.
Increased laboratory services during the
typhoid outbreak were noted today by
health officials who pointed cut that in
the month of April, laboratory tests were
made on 554 fecal samples and 137 blood
specimens by the c epartment of health’s
Anchorage laboratory. Dr. W.H. Gaub. U.
3. Public Health Service Bacteri legist,
served as consultant in the lab.ratt y in
vest! oati' ns. 635 v/ater samples from
wells and 158 milk samples were also test
ed during the one month period in an ef
fort to determine the epidemic’s source.
PH’-OT Ct * -CLUB EE INC, ■ •
* . ORGANIZED *••••.'
William Renip el of the Palmer Photo Art
announced this week a Photography Club is
being organized in Palmer. Meetings have
been scheduled for the second and last
Wednesdays of each month and will be held
in the basement of the Portrait Studio.
The club plans to affiliate with the Nat
ional Photographic Guild. Anyone who is
interested in photography is welcome to
join. Interesting trips will be planned
from time to time.
ri'hls club is the fourth to be organized in
the Knllbelt, Mr. Rerapel said. The others
are in Seward, Anchorage and Fairbanks.
The local club will probably compete with
these other clubs. An all Alaskan Salon
Exhibit may be planned in the near future,
Mr. Rempel stated.
The next meeting will be held on
Wednesday, May 24, at which time Mr. Ward
Weils of £he Anchorage Club will address
the meeting.