DISEASED COWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13091, 3 June 1913, Page 4

DISEASED COWS.

:'• "In art address 'td dairymen at'Christ- " church, Mr A. A^'Jdhnsoh, late'Govern- * -riienf ' Veterinary 1 Inspector for 1 the South 'IslShd, made some interesting observations. AWohg 'Simr'thUgs, he said'.*--"He believed wholesale testing of cattkT was "beginning- al. the wrong end. If all ' milk" 'protlucls HVere pasteurised , oth*. sotfrce of thberculosis would be " eftmiriated altogether. In New Zealand " "bacteriological tests weVe ' made of the ■ Vnilk, ' and the ' cattle' were examined from time to'* time: A new order came ' into Eligland on Slay let lost, providing for ' hal'f-cbrnpensatlon being paid for cows /killed, ths local authority being " _*luifged ; with the 'CbntroL and inspeetl6n of all 'bovine 1 - animal^ suffering from emaciation, iJ.nce tfhere vtere generally ' leftowh to Coiita'hi the germs of the d*s- ' easel Local' authorities were bound lo ' , Authorise the destruction of any animals ' f dtthd suffering from any ' form 6f tuberculosis. If the pCSt irtortem showed that the animal was hot suffering from the disease, the full value of the animal, 'together witb 20s, extra, was to be paid as ctthpensalioi.. If it' wete found suffering' frotfi thbeVcu^ compensation wfts 'paid proportionate witli' the growth bf the disease. This order went very little • further than the NeW Zealatid Stock "■ ' " 4LfeV,' but" it treated tha farmer ma fahr jrrtanner; and hie (Mr Johnson) suggested ffcat the dairymen should attempt to " «>l*ti__in an a'piendment of their Schedule. imow>_in corisdhailce with the value of aafi-y" cattle." ; . .__