HEMP SEED AS A PREVENTIVE OF ABORTION.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 39, 22 May 1917, Page 7

HEMP SEED AS A PREVENTIVE OF ABORTION.

A correspondent of the “Jersey Bulletin” writes to that paper as follows “I would like to offer a valuable suggestion to your readers as a prevention of abortion. It may' be new to many of them, as it was to me. It is hemp seed—a simple and almostcostless remedy. Give a tablespoonful once a day in bran or other feed. “If animal has aborted and is again bred, commence giving it a week or two before the time in gestation when abortion formerly occurred. If evidence of abortion appear, commence at once with the seed, or if it has gone too far, make a strong tea and drench the animal. I had a mare that had twice aborted, and concluded to not breed her again, as she was 22 years old, when an old horseman told me of the hemp seed remedy. “With it I carried her over the two periods she had aborted five and seven months—and continued its use until she foaled, .though its continuation was unnecessary. “I had a heifer freshen two weeks ahead of time, producing a rather weak calf and having an unfilled udder. About a month before again calving, indications appeared of another abortion, when I began giving hemp seed, with the result that she went to her full time, and brought me a nice heifer calf. Since then I al-

ways keep a can of hemp seed in the Btabl?.”