ANIMAL DISEASES

Evening Star, Issue 22671, 10 June 1937, Page 10

ANIMAL DISEASES

GREAT PRIMARY LOSSES PLANS FOR INCREASED RESEARCH “ The Government is fully aware of the great losses that take place in primary production through animal disease, and the necessity to increase research work so that such losses can be brought down to the lowest possible level. For this reason the Government proposes to enlarge the scope of work at Wallaceville Laboratory by increasing accommodation and the staff so that the laboratory can deal adequately with all phases of animal diseases.” This announcement was made to the annual meeting of the South Island Dairy Association to-day by the Minister of Agriculture (Hon. W. Lee Maritn). The erection of new laboratories had been approved at a cost of £15,000, and inquiries were at present being made to secure the services of skilled research workers both for laboratory and field research. So far as dairy cow diseases were concerned, concentration of effort was to be directed towards those various ailments that in the aggregate were reflected in the great wastage that occurred through heavy replacement of stock being necessary, and of these the control of temporary sterility and mastitis were the outstanding two on which work was to be prominently directed.