DAIRY HERDS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 September 1927, Page 9

DAIRY HERDS.

INOCULATION EXPERIMENT. TO COMBAT ABORTION. The experimental work on a selected number of yearling heifers in the effort to overcome abortion, which has become a serious menace to the dairying industry, has been concluded 1 by Mr. C. S. Hopkirk, of Wallaceyßle Laboratory, and Mr. Thomson, Government veterinarian, of Wanganui. The campaign was organised l by Mr. George I'ord, stock inspector of Hawera, and he was assisted by Mr. J. E .Jaine of his staff.

In all nearly 600 head were treated oh a number of farms over South Taranaki, in each case a proportion being inoculated and a certain number left as controls, but in every case a blood test being taken. The work occupied three and a. half busy days. The herds inoculated, in addition to Mr. J. F. Stevenson’s, were:. Messrs. L. R. Hamilton (Manutahi), B. C. Lysaght (Ohangai), W. Henry (Te Roti), R. H. Clement and Linn Bros. (Nornianby), D. Chamberlain (Kakaramea), Miles Atkinson (Alton), D. Hurley (Hurley ville), O. Robertson (Duthie Road), J. Wilson "(Mangatoki), H. Buxton (Aurba), J. Leslie (Kapuni), E. Burke (Otakeho), F. Mills (Tokaora), E. Meuli (Okaiawa), N. Wren (Tokaora). .. ... , The two veterinarians left yesterday for Wanganui, and before he left Mr. Hopkirk said that he was extremely satisfied with the work done, and so far as he could judge the results appeared likely to be successful, as similar work had been in Rhodesia. Mr. Hopkirk said the blood tests were taken to prove whether any abortion germs were present in the animals’ systems. He would be back,, he added, in. December and iri March to, inoculate again and to see how the test was proceeding.