SHEEP DISEASES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7394, 18 June 1895, Page 2

SHEEP DISEASES.

Professor Limon, a Sydney sheep expert, has lectured in the Auckland province on various occasions recently, on the subject of sheep diseases. This important matter was brought prominently before the last meeting of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society, and deserves the most serious consideration from all sheepfarmers. The latter may not be inclined to agree with all that specialists say on this subject, but some of the remarks made by Professor Limon are worth quoting, if only for the sake of provoking discussion. The following short extract from one of his lectures will therefore prove interesting : —" Judging from our scientific knowledge, is there likely to be any method discovered by which all diseases can be wiped out ? The answer is emphatically No ! Can we doctor sheep with any kind of poison for cheapness sake, and yet retain the fine wool and good mutton ? No ! This has been tried by hundreds of squatters with no permanent good, but with an immense amount of permanent injury. The managers of stations where arsenic, etc., were used years ago now shudder at the name, for it is indeed ruinous, as the tremendous loss of sheep show. Now, these terrible diseases have taken many years to come to what they now are. Do you think for one moment that they can be got rid of in one year? No, of course not ; you have not only to look at your sheep for the answer, but you have to reckon with the permanent by diseased ground, grass, and water. These must be purified, or if you allow them to remain saturated and polluted with the seeds and germs of disease, you must constantly deal with the sheep and use an adequate life-preserv-ing agent on or for them. No doubt, if the constitutional strength of sheep were brought up to its highest pitch, it would not only be possible to exterminate parasitical diseases, but at the same time to place the sheep beyond the possibility of another invasion ; but the restoring of another constitution takes longer than the expulsion of parasites. On some stations this must be the work of years, but once accomplished it is impossible for parasites to do any harm to sheep. We have all along insisted on this as of chief importance, and stations that have persisted in an annual treatment are, as far as we know, free from disease. Of course diseased sheep are not different from other animals, and must be treated according to their ailments. I think it is useless to drench with a general drench, for how can arsenic, turpentine, tobacco, &_., do tho lungs any good 7 These drugs act as tonics and rid the sheep of a few worms, but then do really a thousand times more harm than good, as the heavy death-rate of your sheep prove." Somo of the remarks upon drenches may not meet with general approval, but tho common senso of the utterance as a whole makes it worthy of careful thought.

On our baok page to-day will be found tho opening instalment of an interesting story entitled, "A Walpurgi. of Snakes," by Douglas Sladen, author of "Australian Ballads " Does the secretary of the Napier School Committee run the Herald? Do the Committee pay him to report their Meetings for tho Herald? if so they don't get valuo for their money, for tho leports are bias.cd, misleading, and ungrammaticul hashoß. Mr W. T. Sharp's organ reoital takes place in tha Cathedral to-night. Ho will be as-istad by the choir. All seats are free, but thero will be a collection in aid of the choir fund. Sir John Power's Pot Still Whisky, an absolutely Pure Spirit. Obtainable at leading hotels. f

The efficany of anti-toxin as an infallible cure for diphtheria has been shown at Williarastown (Vie) Mr Johnston, Ch.M., had a patient namod Eva Barnes, who was suffering from diphtheria in an aggravated form, which defied all of the customary remedies. On Sunday evening the patient was in a low stat. when the anti-toxin was injected, and within four and twenty hours afterwards all traces of the disease had disappeared.

Members of the Philharmonic Society are reminded of the weekly practice of •'Naaman'' in Trinity Sohoolroom tonight, when a full attendance of soloists, chorus, and orchestra is requested. The solos and concerted members havo been allotted to oapable performers, representing all the various choirs in the district, co a creditable rendering of this beautiful work is sure to result; nevertheless, nothing but incessant rehearsal will bring about that desired consummation.

The complete gp-oifioationa of STenty G. Shannon, farmer, Umutaoroa, have been accepted for an invention for a combination stumper and logger.

Tho late Miss Violet Varley was insured for £1000 in the Fquifcabla Life Inguranoe Company of New York.

The Napier Council have nicely asphalted a portion of the footpath on the Western side of tha Marina Parade, The work starts at tha top of Emerson street, and ends about six feet beyond Councillor Faulknor's front do::r. As this sefimo to indicate that the Overseer does not quite know where to finish, it may be stated that if the work were taken a little further it would improve the approach to two other cott»gea, let to tenants, but also the property, we believe, of Councillor Faulknor.

Mary Teresa Torner, a kitohen-help at Pressland-honse, Hobart, has been committed for trial on the charge of having oansed the death of her new-born baby by throwing it over a garden wall.

Tne annual meeting of the Hawke _ Bay Prohibition League was held in the Methodist sohoolroom last evening, tha Bey, J. W. Worboya in the ohair. There was a fair attendance. In his report the Rev. W. J. Miller, hon. secretary and treasurer, traversed at length the doings of the past year, referring to the part taken by the League at the recent licensing meeting. The balanoe-sheet showed receipts £34 Is, and expenditure £33 8s 4_, leaving a balance in hand of 12s 8d The report antl balance-sheet were adopted. Mr H. Hill was elected president, the Rev. J. W. Worboys, Mrs A. Begg, and Mr R. H. Robinson vice-presidents, and the Rev. W. J. Miller hon. secretary and treasurer. The election of a oommittee was left in abeyance, pending a conference being held for the revision of the constitution.

At the Magistrate's Court at Milton yesterday Allan Boyd, of North Taieri, who was driving with his shepherd on 24th May when the latter met with an accident which resulted in his death, was fined £2 and costs for being- drunk while in charge of a. vehicle on the main road. Franois Grant, a Milton publioan who supplied the two men with liquor, was fined £5 and coats.

At the close of his sermon on Sunday night, when he denounoed gambling, the Rev. R. Waddell, of St. Andrew's Church, Dunedin, called upon everyone willing to mako a solemn promife never to make or take a bet or visit a raoecourso, to stand up. The whole congregation with two or three exceptions stood up.

Anthrax has broken out among dairy cattle at Oaulfield, Victoria, and several animals have died from the disease.

Apropos cf the death of sheep from various diseases, a lot of 600 sheep perished recently at Woytchugga Lakes, "four miles from Wiloannia, N.S.W. They were purchased by Messrs Grenike and Co., looal butchers, from a travelling mob. It ia thought that the sheep, being hungry, gorged themselves with bluebush, whioh grows prolifically on the common, and which stook will only oat when on the point of starvation. This makes about four thousand which have died during the past few days from the same cause.

The master of the ship Imberborne, which has arrived at Sydney from London, sailed through 600 miles of icebergs. This ohain of ice mountains extended from the 19th degree to the 31st of east longitude. The course of the ship was repeatedly altered, the vessel heading south from 42.30 south to 45-south latitude in the attempt to get round the gigantic masses of ioe. They are directly in the track of shipping bound to Australia.

The briskness of the timber industry is shown by the fact that looal mills are still running day and night (says tha Auokland Star). At Mercury Bay Mill a oontraot has just been given out by the manager, Mr Edwards, on behalf of the Kauri Timber Company, for the cutting of 20,000,000 feet of timber. This mill is now lit by electrio light, as it is running - ght and day. Over eighty hands are employed in the mill itself, and fully two hundred in ihe mill and bushes.

Reoent English papers oontain accounts of the launohing of a new oargo steamer for the New Zealand Shipping Company. She was christened the Rakaia, and waa launched by Hawthorne, Leslie, and 00. on April 26, and ia 435 ft long, 64tt broad, and 32ft deep* and is fitted with triple expansion engines of 3004 horse-power. She ia specially fitted up for the conveyance of frozen meat cargoes.

During his West Coast tour the Premier, remarking on the timber trade, referred in tormß of reproach to the cut-throat polioy of the sawmillers in regard to competition, and told his Gteymosth hearers that notwithstanding Government had sailed tenders for 18 000 ft of sawn timber not a single offer had been drawn out of Coast millers. He added, by way of encouragement, that the day was not far distant when the oolony would have to depend on the West Coast for its supplies, and then one acre of bush lend would be worth more than the best tilled agricultural land. In one instance he knew of £10 au aore having been paid for timber cut. He strongly advised a cessation of the suioidal polioy of competition.

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