BUSH SICKNESS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 9970, 8 January 1929, Page 1

BUSH SICKNESS

PREVENTION AND CURE. The use of doußTe citrate of i™ ll n . n * 1 ammonium in the prevention and cure ..f Iho iron-hunger which constitutes ‘■hush sickness" has bean so successful at the Mamuka Demonstration 1-arm Dial increasing numbers of settlers on Ihe sandy s it and coarser pumice lands have taken advantage of Ibis department’s offer to supply the drug to bona lide farmers at cost price-2s 0d per lo— through the stock inspectors at Rotorua and Taurunga, reports Mr «• r Aston, chief chemist of the Agricultural Department, in the current issue of Iho Journal of Agriculture. Evidence has accumulated that favourable results iire being expoiienced by these who arc using the drug iund following in. struct ions. , It is important that careful at tenlion should “be given to these instructions. and they are here repeated for general information. The dose for a mllli' beast is 2 fluid ounces of a 6 l>cr lent solution twice daily; for sheep i of cattle-beast dose. For younger amnmls the dose should he proportionately [educed, but the dose for a cattle b,.;i s l should he not less than loz. One pound of the crystals may be dissolved in 13J pints of water to make the necess'iry solution. ’The medicine is most effective for cattle when given as a drench.