lODINE FOR ANIMALS.
Experiments are being made at the London Zoo of giving /iodine to tigers, and keepers Are i eagerly -waiting to see if they look brisker for the change. Some time ago the sheep in the State of Michigan had such poor fleeces that they were difficult to sell. It is known that the finest fleeces in Great Britain come from the Shetland and Orkney Islands, where the sheep eat much seaweed and are very hardy. lodine, was given to the Michigan sheep, and the result was an improvement in the health of the sheep and the state of their fleeces. In the Staffordshire Farm Institute it has been found that sows that are given iodine have larger and hardier families than those not given iodine, and that young pigs dieted in this way increase their weight. In Scotland hens have been given one part of potassium iodide to 200 parts of ordinary mash. The average egg production per pullet for five months was 61 without iodine and ‘7l with iodine.'
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21215, 22 December 1930, Page 10
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173lODINE FOR ANIMALS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 21215, 22 December 1930, Page 10
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