ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Fides (Tarakina). —To prevent fowls from pecking at each other’s combs supply them with a small quantity of salt in their food and let them have access to Borne coal slack. Grazier (Hawke3 Bay).—Separate from the herd the one that seem 3 sick ; keep her quiet, a moderate diet, and give nightly one ounce of laudanum in linseed tea. Let the cows have rest, but if the milk secretion demands it, milk, and feed not too generously. Do not breed the cow till the third or fourth heat. Abortion is epidemic in herds no matter what the cause of the first case. T.H. (Kiwitea). —Write to E. W. Mills & Co., Wellington, and they will forward you particulars. F.E. (Hunterville). The best tonic you can give your horse is : —Powdered Peruvian bark, half an ounce ; sulphate of iron, one dram ; mis, and give it night and morning for a week.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 992, 6 March 1891, Page 20
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152ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. New Zealand Mail, Issue 992, 6 March 1891, Page 20
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