GRAVE ANNUAL LOSSES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3811, 21 September 1936, Page 4

GRAVE ANNUAL LOSSES

DISEASES IN DAIRY STOCK. In the course of his annual report to Parliament the Director-General of Agriculture, Mr A. H. Cockayne, said that while the, position in the dairy industry as a whole was particularly satisfactory, especially when one took into account the recent progress and improvement that had taken place in a period of difficult conditions, there was need to mention two matters in regard to which there was considerable call for improvement —the quality of dairy produce and better control of the disease of dairy stock. “In common with the dairying of other countries,” he said, “New Zealand dairying suffers grave annual losses because of the diseases of dairy stock. In respect of this one can obtain but little if any consolation from the fact that some of the major diseases such as mastitis and contagious abortion, seem to be more burdensome at times overseas than in New Zealand. and this in countries which have devoted more funds and ability to research relative to the control of the diseases than could be provided by such a small country as New Zealand.”