NOT A MYSTERY
DISEASE AMONGST COWS (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WHANGABEI, 13th September. As the result of reports that a mysterious disease had broken out among the dairy cows .in the North, and in consequence of questions asked in the House, Mr. J.- Lyons, Director of. the Live Stock Division o£ the Department of Agriculture, and Mr. W. T. Collins, District Superintendent at Auckland, are paying an official visit to tho district. They have thoroughly investigated every case in which cows have been destroyed, and emphatically declare that there is no mystery about the disease, which is only milk fever. They state that tho cows would have recovered if the usual treatment for milk fever had been used and persisted in. It is understood that I several valuable cows were shot when they I became delirious, which is only a passing phase in milk fever.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 14 September 1928, Page 16
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144NOT A MYSTERY Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 14 September 1928, Page 16
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