INCIDENCE OF HYDATIDS
CONCERN IN. CANTERBURY
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 9. Concern that most Canterbury farmers had done little or nothing to check the incidence of hydatids in spite of the intensive drive which had been made in the last three years was expressed to-day by Mr E. E. Elphick, superintendent of the Livestock Division of the Department of Agriculture, Christchurch. It was clear, he said, that in that time there ,had been ho general improvement throughout the province. Reports obtained on lambs sent to freezing works showed that stock in all parts of Canterbury were affected. A large number of farmers had an infection of 100 per cent, of lambs and a much larger number of farmer's had from 60 to 100 per cent, of their lambs affected. Generally speaking, of course, almost all adult or aged sheep In Canterbury were affected. The drive to persuade farmers to dose their dogs and stop feeding them on offal had been intended to break , the parasites’ cycle. No doubt a number of farmers had been doing this, but their efforts were defeated apparently by careles? neighbours.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24837, 10 February 1942, Page 6
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