PULPY KIDNEY.
* GREATER USE OF VACCINATION
GAINING- GROUND FAERY YEAR
Framers in the Ashburton County are increasingly realising the value and effectiveness of vaccine in the prevention of elitet’o-toxaemia or what is common - ly known as pulpy-kidhey in ewes and lambs. Every year more sheep were being treated against the disease. Mr A. Douglas, of the Stock Division of the Department of Agriculture, Ashburton, told a “Guardian” reporter this morning. Mr Douglas said that ewes were already being vaccinated with the approach of lambing, for it was the usual •procedure to give two injections, one six or seven weeks before lambing and the second about 10 to 14 days before lambing. In sonic eases farmers in the County already liqve ewes six weeks old, lie said, * but generally lambing would not- start for a time yet. Mr Douglas stated lie knew that about 5000 ewes wore vaccinated last yea? and he anticipated that this season the number would probably roach SOOO to 9000. He pointed out that the cost of treating 1000 owes could be made up in lie saving of only a mere handful of lambs, about 10 to 15.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 228, 9 July 1941, Page 4
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191PULPY KIDNEY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 228, 9 July 1941, Page 4
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