AUCTIONS. H. MATSON AND GO. THE NEW ZEALAND FARMER OF TO-DAY THE NEW ZEALAND FARMER OF TO-DAY IS A KEEN STUDENT OF SCIENCE, IS A KEEN STUDENT OF SCIENCE, AND the fact that he appreciates the urgent necessity of supplying a provfed salt-lick to his stock is only knowledge voiced by agrostologists throughout the world. Famous scientists are loud in their advice; Scientists not so eminent write recommending •alt-licks. All and everyoiie are iti approval. STARVATION IS THE RAREST OF DEATHS, STARVATION IS THE RAREST OF DEATHS. but the commonest of ailments, so states Mr £. C. Ashton, F.N.Z. Inst,, Chemist to the Department of Agriculture. Tha term "starvation" must not be limited to denote only a result caused by lack of •ne kind of food, but equally well be applied to the want of any essential kind of food. ' 'Tha importance of giving salt-lick to all farm animals is universally recognised," says Mr Ashton. The reason for this iB that salt lupplies sodium and chlorine, both essential mineral foods. The chlorine is required by tha animal to make hydrochloric acid, which is the acid oi the digestive juice. It is iiot possible to say What symptoms ar« peculiar to a deficiency of salt, but a supply of saltlick will be found to promote an increased thriftiness and condition in stock. "THE DOCTOR IN THE PADDOCK," for GREATER PRODUCTION of BCJTTERFAT, WOOL, LAMBS, MEAT. All stock require minerals, We have It! L I X I T. L I X I T. Scientific lodised Block, prepared by Qualified Chemists, in BO lb blocks. Salt, Sulphur, and lodine. LASTS 3 TIMES AS LONG AS ROCK SALT. Out ill the Open. WHY HAS LIXIT BECOME FAMOUS WHY HAS LIXIT BEOOMB FAMOUS "WHY HAS LIXIT BECOME FAMOUS WHY HAS LIXIT BECOME FAMOUS in New Zealand? Because .it is famous in oilier countries. Jfo. dQubt, this fact ; iLEfIJ. ,t? Zealand. If JS buiprisiilg. number •f jujjtoralists .here. who t hav,e Jcnqwledfce of the wonderful igiSjiS ~£IXIT by World-fambiis. ; Australian: station-owners And •tudmasTer&,.»uch as gir. <Jrah,am Waddell, Mr OtwaxJEL Ffllfeih&r, «( S t F.aljciiifej and Sons. . Ltd., F. D. MeMaster, and - many others. What'is good eiiougK for .these Who have given whole. lives studying ■toetC .but be good enough for us iti New Zealand. CLIMATfe. dLIItAXf. CLiMATE. CLIMATE. CLIMATE. CLIMATE. I know LIXIT ia good and my stock want BUT WXtili IT EAST IN Tfil! OPfeNf Yoti know our 6linlatie conditions are so *ery different to those of Australia; in fact, X nave been taught before with salt-lick; St' all washed away. Thj«.faiC fifi Kiei l>y.,Kttiiiijiai 6! Cai).t«rbijnf tvmhH. teSliiJ. ,yb®. to tak\ S look iSt, tl»e ; btiiofe ,ofi 6kt ,Wdol Stqte Roof, ;#Weea, tfcteji Jin fit .193 D, Next tfa<S ypii a?a iS Adfliiiktofi YajfM iqok afcroj*' oc StSk ,yottf fiWglUioiif. ,„.£veryoß| look*. .. I?o„qiUi eari see aiifc .diffeitMce; in*he£4 J)pu6..,_, Y4t a/ record rainfall hi been eitferlefieed. •'-sfcfli 1 laiv tat is flit open jjjiddoek uncovered. Order from any of the following agents: CHttISTCrtURCH Xf MATRON and CO. aLBHBUiTdN— J. T. TfiOMAS ind Cb. TIifARU and all Branches—--0.B".0. ASSOCIATION, LTD; BLfiSrfiiiM—b: W. PACKER and CO. KELSON—- . LBVIN aad C<s. H 7802
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19861, 24 February 1930, Page 18
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