FACIAL ECZEMA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 228, 27 September 1938, Page 8

FACIAL ECZEMA.

I A RAY OF HOPE. ft j

, ! I note that the facial eczema eomttjl : is laying out some very elaborate experiZS? which are very impressing, hut the fuSM , are asking (and rightly ko, too) wh*J «J , they to do in the meantime to .save tS stock. As usual, our disorders martjtif ' abortion, sterility and red water. etc*-S all with us again (without abatement) grass staggers, with the some what j average of some 50 cows per day .Waikato. Stricken with such heavy amongst our stoc!:, this seems an awful admfa! sion—in that, at least, we are not • much headway; in combating these disorder —which are without a doubt of dietetic ortoa in minuses, plusses, wrong food cowbinatioti or sick soil—the outcome of which branchei the source of disorders which seem to be baffling us to-day. I note that the Ruaktni advisory committee has at last reeommen&j to the Minister of Agriculture that nutritL* 'of the dairy cow should be part of the reaeanl j work at Ruakura. Although somewhat belated, such a step may prove the only wav oat of troubles; and besides, this" is the moit encouraging news we have had in the historr of Xew Zealand's farming: and if the Heahi Department would put some suchlike cchem into operation—the nutrition of mr.n— andthn 'the Agricultural Department—the nutrition of plant life—followed by the Lands Department —the nutrition df the soil—then co-ordinata* the whole lot under one head, independent!? staffed of any of these Departments, unJer .such supervised co-ordination along these linn J we shoult' then make rapid progress; and tha [would be the means whereby Xew Zcalaii I could be made the most healthful country h the world, instead of as at present, the mort j sickly. However, this is what all my previos* articles, over a period of years, have adve. ■ cated; and it is pleasing to note that at but one can see a ray of hope, which is very [encouraging—and the committee is to fe j highly congratulated on the move it has mads in this direction. Humanly, disease is a selflimited affair, but of animals, more or lew dependent upon our basis of intelligence, jt may be termed as being an "inflicted affair" For. surely, by feeding a 30.06 per cent protew I (Waikato pasture) to cows or stock, such must |be detrimental to their health, making comjparison to lean ireat, which carries a 2L90 | per cent protein. If fed to humans in"tl» same proportions it would have fatal effect* lin a very short space of time. Thus, it matt be only too obvious that the cause stares ut lin the face, as does the cure. I have also been j trying to point this out for years— and it stOl remains for me to repeat what I said yean ago—that grassland farming has failed, and will continue to do so, until we remedy thece defects. H. A. LURMAN, JJ.v