Lambs Poisoned
A Bpringston farmer recently lost about. 70 new-born lambs, and could not account for such a heavy mortality, says a Southern exchange. Portions of the stomachs of several lambs were sent to be analysed, and minute traces of arsenic, were found. It was found that the farmer had been using an arsenic, preparation as a treatment, for footrot, and that some of the mixture had splashed on to the wool near the udder of the ewes, remaining there until after lambing.
Thus the new-born lambs swallowed some of the arsenic and quickly died.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 13
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95Lambs Poisoned Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 13
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