Bastrop Advertiser and Bastrop County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. [120], No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1973 Page: 3 of 10
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BASTROP (TEXASi ADVERTISER APRIL 5. 1973
Page 3
Bloat May Become A
Problem With Cattle
With the arrival of warmer
weather and rapid legume
growth, bloat may become a
problem in your cattle. Texts
livestock raisers should re-
member that bloat is often an
important cause of cattle
deaths, warns County Extension
Agent Ed Migura.
Bloat is basically caused by
the failure of gas to escape
from the rumen (stomach) of
n animal through normal and
regular belching, he explains.
Cattlemen should observe
cattle closely for signs of bloat
whenever animals are turned
in on fresh pastures. There
are many and varied causes
of bloat and many forms of
prevention.
Ranchers should become
familiar with preventive mea-
sures and first-aid treatments
that can be applied until vet-
erinary assistance can be ob-
tained. Five measures that can
help prevent bloat are:
1. Keep good quality hay in
portable racks where cattle are
grazing. The dry feed encour-
ages belching. t
2. Avoid turning cattle in on
wet plants the first day after
a rain. More water means
more fermentation and results
in more gas formation.
3. Be sure cattle are not
extremely hungry when turned
on pastures. Feed them with
good quality roughage iirst.
4. Change onto pastures
gradually. Allow access to pas-
tures for Increasing time per-
iods until cattle have full ac-
cess to pasture.
5. Keep salt and minerals
available for animals at all
times to help prevent bloat
through better digestion.
Another measure for bloat
control is the use of poloxalene
where cattle have had problems
on certain pastures. Limited
trials conducted by the Cali-
fornia Extension Service in-
dicate that forthy bloat in an-
imals was effectively controlled
when adequate amounts of pol-
oxalene were consumed.
Five first aid measures that
ranchers can practice until vet-
erinary assistance is obtained
include:
1. A "gag" can be inserted
in the animal's mouth. A stick
about the size of a broom-
stick or shovel handle can be
tied crossways in the animal's
mouth. This encourages chew-
ing and movements ofthetongue
to cause belching.
2. Some drenches are
recommended but must be used
with care to avoid getting liquid
in the animal's lungs. Drenches
can be obtained from your vet-
erinarian and kept for emer-
gency use.
3. Try to keep animals on
their feet and walking.
4. Knead left flank vigorously
with fists to force out gas.
5. In extreme emergencies
to prevent death, it may be
necessary to puncture the an-
imal's side so the gas will
escape. This should be done
only as a last resort since the
resulting wound usually be-
mn
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Feeder Pig
Sale To Be In
Brenham
The first South Central Texas
Feeder Pig Sale will be held
Saturday, April 7, 1:00 p m.,
at the Washington County Fair-
grounds in Brenham, according
to Ed Migura, Bastrop County
Extension Agent. Hie Fair-
grounds is located on FM loop
577 northeast of Brenham.
All feeder-pig producers in
Bastrop County and in the South
Central Texas area are invited
to join this Feeder-pig Associa-
tion in order to market their
pigs.
Membership in the Association
is $5.00 annually. Only mem-
bers can sell in the Sale. Mem-
bership applications are avail-
able from the County Extension
Office located at the Court
House in Bastrop.
Consignments are due seven
days prior to the Sale. A fee
of $1.00 per head must accom-
pany the consignment sheet.
Consignment sheets are also
available at the County Agent's
Office. All pigs must have been
farrowed and raised on the
farm of the consignor. Also, all
pigs must be healthy, free of
disease, castrated, and healed.
All pigs will be inspected up-
on arrival, graded, and weighed.
All pigs must weigh between
30 and 90 pounds.
Pigs must arrive at the Sale
facility between 7:00 and 10:00
a. m., and the Sale will begin
at 1:00 p. m.
All feeder-pig producers In
Bastrop County are invited to
join the South Central Texas
Feeder Pig Association. Pig
sales will be held the first
Saturday of each month.
For further details call Ed
Migura, County Extension Agent
at Bastrop.
comes infected and is difficult
to heal.
The proper place to "tap"
an animal is high on the left
flank about halfway between the
hip bone and last rib. Vet-
erinarians generally prepare
the area properly, time per-
mitting, and use a trocar and
canula made especially for the
job, explains Migura.
COMMODITIES TO BE
DISTRIBUTED APRIL 11-12
Distribution and issuance of
commodities to all eligible per-
sons in Bastrop will be on Wed-
nesday and Thursday, April 11
and 12.
All eligible people are asked
to come to the office at this
time, at the corner of Water
and Chestnut Streets.
Food Preparation Changes With Times
During the early years of
this country, the woman of the
house — whose duty It was,
among others, to keep the fam-
ily fed—slaved over a wood-
burning stove practically all
the waking hours preparing the
three meals her large family
required.
Then came the gas-burning
and electric ovens that revolu-
tionized food preparation in
America. And even more re-
cently, the microwave oven has
sharply reduced the amount of
time it takes to cook a given
food.
Yet, the cry has been heard
recently from certain consumer
and environmental groups that
home microwave ovens are un-
safe because these self-pro-
claimed public spokesmen fear
"potential radiation hazards."
Texas state health officials have
taken issue with those state-
ments and have assured the
public there have been no doc-
umented or reported injuries
due to microwave exposures in
Texas from properly operating
microwave ovens which meet
established non-ionizing radia-
tion leakage standards.
"We have no reason to doubt
the safety of microwave ovens
for home use in the State of
Texas," says Martin Wukasch,
who heads up the Texas Radia-
tion Control Program of the
Texas State Department of
Health. "Our major concern
and our only problem in Teras
is with a few improperly main-
tained commercial microwave
ovens in commercial food
vending operations where pro-
duct abuse is fairly wide-
spread."
The potential hazards of
microwave ovens must be kept
in proper perspective. The
real hazard, if there is one,
comes from potential burns—
not from radiation leakage.
Microwave ovens are de-
signed to heat and cook food
quickly when compared to an
ordinary oven. As a con-
sequence, they can, in the event
of a catastrophic multiple in-
terlock failure in conjunction
with a corresponding switch
failure, cause quick heating of
human hands and eye tissue
which may be inserted into the
oven. The hazard is predom-
inantly a thermal one—a burn
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from quick heating.
"Actually, on a hot, sunny
day a person gets more radia-
tion exposure from the sun than
he would get from a microwave
jven," says Wukasch. "The
same is true of other micro
wave producing devices such
as radar equipment."
"At the present time, mic-
rowave ovens in the home are
not of public health significance
as a potential and likely ioniz-
ing radiation hazard. The pri-
mary potential hazard from
home microwave ovens is pre-
dominantly a thermal one."
The Texas Legislature in
1971 amended the Texas Radia-
tion Control Act to include
standards and regulatory re-
quirements relating to opera-
tion of microwave ovens. The
original law, passed in 1961,
set up the Texas Radiation
Control Program in the Texas
State Department of Health and
established the Texas Radiation
Advisory Board.
The Texas Radiation Advis-
ory Board continually reviews
and evaluates the effectiveness
of regulatory standards in re-
gard to biological effects and
public health significance. The
Hoard currently Is considering
proposed standards regulating
use of lasers and microwaves
in any occupational circum-
stance.
Microwave radiation covers
a frequency band of approxi-
mately 100 megahertz (million
per second) through 100,000
megahertz. All microwave de-
vices emit radiation, including
television sets and virtually all
UHF (ultra high frequency) TV
stations, as well as microwave
ovens.
Joe Thiel, who heads the
Non-ionizing Radiation Control
Unit of Texas State Department
of Health, urges the following
safety practices to assure
homeowners of continued safe
operation of their microwave
units:
Switch the oven off before
opening the door. Never tamper
with or inactivate the oven
safety interlocks (devices to
turn off the oven automatically
when the door is opened.) Fre-
quently clean oven cavity, door,
and seals with water and mild
detergent. Do not use scouring
pads, steel wool, or other abra-
sives.
Have oven regularly serviced
by a qualified serviceman for
signs at wear, damage, or tam-
pering. Never operate an em-
pty oven. Do not use metal
cookware. Never insert objects
(for example, a fork prong,
aluminum foil, wire) through the
dour grill or around the seal.
Do not allow children near the
viewing port to watch the cook-
ing of food. Stay at least a full
arm's length away from the
front of an operating wen.
Read the instruction manual
for the manufacturer's recom-
mendations for safe operation
of the oven. Examine the oven
for evidence of shinPhvi dam-
age. Ask your state or local
health department for informa-
tion on suitable microwave oven
leakage tests.
More Information concerning
safe operation of microwave
ovens can be obtained by writ-
ing: Texas State Department
of Health, Occupational Health
and Radiation Control Division,
1100 West 49th Street, Austin,
Texas, 78756, or by calling
(512) 454-3781, Ext. 241.
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Standifer, Amy S. Bastrop Advertiser and Bastrop County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. [120], No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1973, newspaper, April 5, 1973; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth238407/m1/3/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.