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hoping to finish by the 30th, but with a limited crew. The worst areas were Jenkins Hollow and Battle Run, engineers said.
Amissville fire chief Carl James says the company had an unusually busy December. AVFD received 27 calls between December. 1-28, he said, up 25 percent from last December.
Impact On Farming
Livestock feed requirements go up by about 30 percent during such frosty weather, extension agents say. And the danger of death to newborn calves is considerably greater.
Newbill Miller said he didn’t have any problems during the icy Christmas season. He just fed his animals in a sheltered area, using the hills as a windbreak. “I stopped worrying a long time ago,” he said, pointing out that the cattle seem to do just fine in the great western plains states where the wind chill consistently falls below 40 degrees in the winter.
Miller has no cattle cal.ving right now, he said, or his weather problems might have been worse. Animals' ears and tails can freeze at birth and fall off, he said. But if they survive, the loss of an ear or tail poses little danger to the animal's retail value.
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