Tutu Again
The inquiry made on these pages some weeks ago about a means of curing tutu poisoning in stock is still having its repercussions.
Mr A. W. Ericson, of Akaroa, says that he has only recently been reading "Five Years in New Zealand." He says that it observes: “Tutu is a shrub poisonous to sheep and cattie when eaten on an empty stomach. . . . The only chance for saving them,” says R. B. Booth, “is to bleed them by driving in the blade of a small knife each side of the nose. The blood will flow black and thick and the animal will speedily recover, but delay is fatal.” Mr Ericson says that Booth worked for Samuel Butler on Erewhon about 1862 so the remedy is an old one.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31984, 10 May 1969, Page 10
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