STOCK-SICK LAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 90, 18 April 1927, Page 4

STOCK-SICK LAND.

SUCCESSFUL DAIRYMEN. GOOD RESULTS AT LICHFIELD. Many encouraging reports come to hand with respect to the improved conditions of dairying oil the so-called "stock sick" pumice lands of the Upper Waikato. This is no doubt to some extent due to :• better understanding of local conditions by farmers themselves, but also to the results of the many years of investigation of the '"sickness" by experts of the Government Stock Department. Those dairymen who have availed themselves of the Departmen's advice, and have secured supplies of the iron and ammonium citrate, using it as a drench for affected animals, have kept their herds in good health and up to a profitable standard of production. Mr. A. Vincent, of the Ngatira Road, Lichfield, has this year been successful in reducing the number of his herd from 70 to GO head, and at the same time greatly increasing his output of butterfat. This he attributes to three improvements—to ' the severe culling of the herd, to the , replacing of many of the culled animals hy heifers of high grade Jersey blood, and to the prompt use of the iron and citrate oi ammonia drencji where ever the loss of condition by a cow indicated a possible case of "'sickness."