VETERINARY QUERIES.
[Answered by a duly qualified Veterinary Surgeon. Queries must be received by SATURDAY night to enaure reply in the gucoaeding issue.] Country.—See reply to your letter under Kennel Notes. Anxious.—Judging from the description you gave regarding the end den death of a calf we would attribute it to splenic apoplexy, generally depending on plethora. It is one of the most rapid diseases to which oattle are liable, and generally occurs in young feeding stock laying on condition too rapidly. They pa,s« out so quickly that treatment is seldom of any avail.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3034, 8 May 1912, Page 47
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