DEATH OF EIGHT COWS
DAIRY FARMER'S LOSS ' • FEED SUSPECTED AS CAUSE [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] OPOTIKI, Friday Serious loss was suffered by Mr. G. J. Gaskill, of Waioeka, Opotiki, by the death of eight good dairy cows. It appears that Mr. Gaskill brought 24 cows into a paddock and fed them with mangolds which are supposed to have been frosted. After finishing feeding all these cows were turned out. and they were not seen again for 24 hours, when Mr. Gaskill went to bring them in again for feeding. To his consternation he then found eight lying dead. Mr. Gaskill came to the conclusion that death was caused through eating the mangolds, arid he has communicated the facts to the Department of Agriculture in Wellington for further advice.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22166, 20 July 1935, Page 12
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