VALUABLE COWS LOST
RESULT OF EATfoG WIRE [from oub own correspondent] SYDNEY, Feb. 14 The Tweed-Lismore Pastures Protection Board's stock inspector, Mr. C. J. Wooiiett, reported an unusual case to the board at' its last meeting, A farmer at Wyrallah lost thiee milking cows, all showing the same symp- " toms. Mr. Wooiiett said that death was due to the puncturing of the heart by a foreign body. The owner was sceptical, but when a fourth animal died a post-mortem disclosed a piece of wire in the heart. In a near by grazing paddock was' an old piece of wire rope about 100 yards long, and examination showed that large numbers of small pieces of this wire had rusted off, and been picked up by the cows when grazing. jg|r. * Ik. EHtePv-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 10
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