DISEASE AMONG CATTLE.
HUGE LOSS EVERY YEAR,
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
HAMILTON, Friday.
So far little has been done on a national.scale to check the huge annual loss from stock disease, and Waikato dairy farmers are culling over 40,000 dairy cows every year on account of disease. Mammitis is the chief factor in the loss.
Authorities state that on a conservative estimate the Waikato is losing 10 per cent of its dairy cattle population annually from disease. ( The record number of boner cattle traded at the Waikato saleyards during the past three months is a striking indication of the extent to which farmers have been forced to cull.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 162, 10 July 1937, Page 17
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