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- Clitheroe 22324 (Editorial),- 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 22331 (Classified)


From farmyard to town hall I t ’s dll iri a day ’s work


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iri a day’s work for Ribble Valley farmer Coun. John Walmsley. For in addition to being


UP with the lark on the milk round and. shaking hands witH Royalty are worlds apart. Yet they are all


a farmer, Coun. Walmsley has had the honour of- being Ribble Valley’s, chief citizen in a year when two members of the Royal family have visited the area. One minute C o u n .’


and West-Bradford CE School, and many visits to old people’s and children’s homes and hospitals.


Royal year. When asked the highlight of his term of office, he. readily ans­ wers “the meetings with Royalty.”


It has also been a right Sorrow


Walmsley can be in'his jumper and Wellington ' boots tending the animals, delivering milk and driv­ ing‘his tractor; and next: he.is being driven by a liveried- chauffeur and . passing the (time of day with civic dignitaries. i This year Coun. Walm­


sley, of Gannies Farm, Waddington, has thrown his heart and soul into being Mayor, yet. man­ aged to combine that life with the hard toil of the farmer.


Hard life


warmly praises his son, Ian, for “holding the fort” and looking after the 140- acre farm nestling in the folds of Waddington Fell. Ian has canned on with the work, milking the 40


Coun. Walmsley


fortunate to greet Prince Charles when he came to Clitheroe and Princess Margaret on her visit to Waddow.


Coun. Walmsley was ■ .y >y -\v I-. f fc/f* ‘ ^ *4; iT* - * ‘. t ' • '


Halt this savage destruction


DOGS,and sheep just don’t mi^,— especially in. lambinfir season /which in the North West ranges from the turn of the year m the low­


lands to April in the uplands. ■ F lo ckm a s te rs have


. The National Farmers •Union’s _ Parliamentary D e p a r tm e n t ' which stewarded th e . legislation through the Parliamen-, tary process, has now highlighted provisions of the new protective legisla­


therefore welcomed, recog­ nition in the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981, of the killer-dog problem and an extension of the law on livestock worrying which became operative from mid-February. .


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memher the invitation to. a garden partyat Buckin­ gham Palace, where he saw the Queen and Prince Philip.


But the year has also had a great sorrow, for


And he will always re- ■


his wife, Dorothy, died in . November. It was a sad. blow to the Ribble Valley, but although she is great­ ly missed, Coun.; Walm-' sley has valiantly carried on with his d u t i e s . - .


charity the Hospice Fund, which has already, raised


He chose as his Mayoral


sley will celebrate 59 years at Gannies Farm. Before that he.lived just a . few yards down- the road, at Hollins Farm.


local government for more than 10 years..


chairman of. Waddirigton Parish Council from 1976 to 79, has been a member of the Ribble Valley Council since 1974 and


. Goun. Walmsley was


promote good relations and spread unity in the 'Ribble Valley.


As Mayor, he set out to i;


He has been active ‘ in - . -


well in excess of £20,000. ’ In- May, Coun. Walm- '


was deputy Mayor in 1980. ■


chairman of Waddingtori Conservatives, retiring last-March, and he also; .belonged . to.' the former. Clitheroe and -district Operatic Society for ' 25 years.


For many years he was-


he says: “I’ve been well received' wherever I’ve been.


With , typical modesty


experience and I’ve vis­ ited places I never would have been able to go to. I shall be sorry when it’s over.”


'“It’s been a wonderful - V; :-


of, office to Coun. Mrs. Myra Clegg at the begin­ ning of May . . . and after that, he plans to take a well-earned holiday.'


He hands over his chain


tion. ■ .Background to- the problem - is the fact that some 6,000 sheep are. killed and injured in Eng­ land .and Wales every year by , dogs, and the North West- along with the valleys of South Wales are blackspot


even horses fall victim to raids by killer dogs.


areas. Cattle, poultry arid-


: : And this is only part of the. story — the number. -of pregnant’ sheep which


lose lambs as a result of being worried by dogs is high. The cost to the


Hygiene is key to new milk test


cows, tending the lives-' tock and keeping an eye on the sheep while Coun. Walmsley has been en­ gaged in his role of chief citizen. “I couldn’t have managed without him,” he says. Of course it is a hard


.to run — he has attended more than 250 functions. Among these were 37


life rising early and often not reaching home until the early hours after a civic ball. But Coun. Walmsley is not a person who tires easily, judging from the amount of .good work he has achieved in a short space of time. During his Mayoralty — Which still has a month


trips to schools, including his own former place of education, Waddirigton


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THE receiving dairies have subjected milk to the resazurin dye-re­ duction test for many years to ' indicate the milk’s hygienic quali­ ty, writes Mr R. T. Armitage, Dairy Hus­ bandry Advisory Of­ ficer based at Ac­ crington.


, . The test was suitable for churn milk, but since the introduction of bulk milk tanks it has not been considered a satisfactory indicator of the bacterial quality. In 1981 the pre-incu-


methods. The resazuriri test mea­


sures “bacterial activity”: in the milk but this does not necessarily- relate to the number of bacteria which have gained access from equipment and udders, etc.


'


bated resazurin test was introduced to run along­ side the old; test. Many more milk samples have failed this and milk pro­ ducers have had to im­ prove their production


that the only real indica­ t io n of p ro d u c t io n methods and milk quality has been to count the total number of bacteria, but the' test -was labori­ ous, costly and required skilled personnel. Recent­ ly, new techniques for counting bacteria have been developed to make the total bacteria count a feasible test.


Board has now decided to introduce the Total Bacte­ rial Count Test and with


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FLOATATION TYRES


10.50 x 16 £52.00 12.0 x 18 £88.00


AGRICULTURAL TYRES It has always been. felt -


it a ■ bonus arid penalty; payment scheme, when its hew Centralised Milk Testing Laboratories come into operation this year.'


bonuses and- penalties will operate have not yet been decided but, without doubt, producers are going to have to pay more attention to hygienic con­ trols.


The levels at which


— soiled teats. Milking equipment — poor cleaning and disinfec­ tion. Inside the udder — mastitis. Soiled teats and udders


bacteria which gain access to the milk are from: The udder exterior


The major sources, of


problems with the sedi­ ment test. Good udder washing


and drying, coupled with good management aimed at keepirig the cows clean, can overcome this source of bacteria very readily.


-getting larger and more complex and as ’hew equipment is introduced cleaning becomes more and more difficult.


infected milking equip­ ment is a growing prob­ lem. Milking plants are


Poorly cleansed and dis­


plant cleaning appears to be a problem.


infection of the udder, so it follows that if there is a mastitis problem large numbers of bacteria are ■ released into the; milk.


Mastitis is a bacterial ,


be installed correctly so that there is an even flow of water to all parts and,


Firstly, the plant must


not only can increase the number of bacteria in the milk but can also cause


' correct as per manufac­ turers’ recommendations. Advice should be sought if


secondly, water tempera­ tures and detergent-disin­ fectant strengths must- be


1 Cell" counts will also in­ crease when there is mas­ titis.'Antibiotic treatment is normal when mastitis occurs so care has to be taken with milk-from tre­ ated cows. An antibiotic


E a r ly d e te c t io n and prompt treatment are therefore the key to suc­ cess here.


: sion. ; There is little doubt


country is enormous and eve ry o n e should en­ deavour, to halt- this savage destruction which has tended to be aggra­ vated as a result of the current economic reces-


that unwanted pets, some p ro b ab ly dumped' as domestic • budgets have come under stress, are now'at large.


, around 10,000. - Under Section 1 of the


country killers. It is esti­ mated that in Liverpool alone th e . number of un- wanted pets runs at


■Town p e ts become


Dogs (Protection of Lives­ tock) Act 1953 it is an offence to allow a dog to worry livestock. The latest Wildlife and Coun­ tryside Act extends the definition of worrying. '/ The new .triple-pronged legislation says that wor­ rying means:.


tock. O Chasing livestock


• Attacking lives­


» or suffering to the livestock, or, in the case of females, an abortion, or loss of or diminution in their produce.


(that is to say not on a lead or otherwise under close control) in a field or enclosure in which there are sheep.


• Being at large


of up to £200. The new “on a lead”


Conviction carries a fine


requirement only exempts working sheep dogs; working gun dogs and packs of hounds. The emphasis is on con-


test failure is expensive. Given clean milking/ premises, a clean and


well-maintained milking plant, clean. cows and udders free from mastitis, then no problems should be encountered, with the' new tests.


ALL thil tions of fi


t ro l l in g w o rk in g of specific dogs — and does not exempt a springer spaniel or retriever nor sporting dogs generally. A lurcher chasing hares


plus a ones, wi| this yea* shire A if at Wittl


through a sheep field would not be seen as exempt;


reasonably be ex­ pected to cause injury


in such a way as may r


a u th o r Richard of the Union.


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come pi the cour damenta tion’s foi I and in 8 the Na Union, Commissi thoritiesl rial oper| better standing!


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is the assumpt: such are; Parks is The vast is in pr apart f access, i urban back gar


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th a t rr methods country;


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