Cattle Poisoned
CEVEEAL farmers in the Bay Yiew- ° Eskdalo district have suffered losses or illness to their cattle as a result of an arsenical-spray which has been used in the destruction ot black lie fry on the East (toast railway line, now in the course of completion. It appears that the men engaged upon tiie work of eradicating. the blackberry, f nmi the sides .gf the line sprayed the bushes with a solution containing arsenic, and that the spraying was not confined to the blackberry bushes within the fences bounding the* railway, but in some places extended through 5 the fences bounding tho railway line and on to the properties of farmers in: the district. Cattle grazing, near the fences separating the paddocks from the railway line apparently grazed upon pasture- which had been affected by the spray and sudden illness was in several cases followed by the death of the cattle. The usual solution -which is used by farmers for the purpose of eradicating blackberry j s sodium chlorate, an effective mixture which has the advantage of being win-poisonous to stock.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19040, 13 June 1936, Page 13
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182Cattle Poisoned Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19040, 13 June 1936, Page 13
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