DAIRY HERDS’ SICKNESS
DEPARTMENTAL INVESTIGATION. [Pee United Peess Association.] WELLINGTON, July _ 15. Some time ago sickness broke out in, tho dairy herds on six sections ox tho Eoparoa Estate on the Raupo-Eotorua route. Sixtynine head of cattle were affected, and thirteen died. Investigation proved that tho land on: which they were reared was quite clean, and not affected with bush {sickness, as was- believed by some local farmers. When tho cattle were removed from tho high country to swamp land they quicklv recovered. Officers ol' tho live stock division of phe Agricultural Department made uwcati,nation, and formed the opinion that the outbreak was net bush sickness, but was more associated with malnutrition than anything else. It was considered probable by them that the sickness was caused through thq cattle being depastured on poor, light land which had lacked proper manuring for the last three or four years.
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Evening Star, Issue 18021, 15 July 1922, Page 4
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147DAIRY HERDS’ SICKNESS Evening Star, Issue 18021, 15 July 1922, Page 4
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