A SHEEP DISEASE.
[BY TELEGRAM. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Dargavii.lk, Thursday. Some unrecognisable ailments amongst sheep, and the consequent mortality, have caused considerable unrest amongst flockowners, who have failed to discover the cause of th? outbreak. Mr. Hickman, Government veterinarian, visited the district recently, and his post-morter-l examinations disclosed parasitic gastritis, but since then a fresh epidemic has attacked several flocks. Mr. Lyons, also a Government veterinarian, who is now inspecting the ' affected flocks, states that the ailment is facial eczema, clue solely to a superabundance of moist feed, created by the abnormal season. The disease is not infections, so that North Auckland farmers, by removing their flocks to drier and poorer pasturage, can control the epidemic.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14345, 15 April 1910, Page 7
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115A SHEEP DISEASE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14345, 15 April 1910, Page 7
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