STAGGERS, SORREL, AND HOVEN CATTLE, ETC.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3219, 9 November 1867, Page 4

STAGGERS, SORREL, AND HOVEN CATTLE, ETC.

To the Editor of the Daily Southe*n Cross. Sib, — " A Farmer," in a letter dated 2nd November, 1867, from Alexandra, says he "should be glad to learn if there is any means of destroying the seeds of weeds, such as sorrel, dock, &c." Sheep will «oon destroy dock, or sorrel, and improve the land, if enclosed in pens at night, and repay the expense of hurdles. To destroy Scotch thistles, allow them to grow until they show the green flower-pod; then cut off the plant close to the root. If the plant is allowed to bloom it is more difficult to destroy; or if cut off before the flower-pod shows, fresh shoots will spring. If cattle or horses get hoven, through eating tutu or tupakihi, or red clover (this is not staggers), give the beast one dessert- spoonful of chloride of lime. This powder being put well into the mouth of the beast soon chemically unites with the gas ; and unless the affected animal has been suffering for some time, a cure is generally effected in a very short time : if not, the dose should be repeated in half-an-hour after the first has been given. In fevers with sheep, chloride of lime is a safe medicine. Every farmer should keep a bottle of this most useful powder.— Yours, &c, Agbicola. Auckland, November 8, 1867.