THE CATTLE PLAGUE.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1923, Page 5

THE CATTLE PLAGUE.

FOOT AND MOUTH RAVAGES CURE WORSE THAN DISEASE. PITIFUL STORIES TOLD. By Toleffrapl)—Press Assn —Copyright. Received Dec. 22, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 21. At a meeting of Cheshire farmers pitiful stories were told regarding the foot and mouth ravages. They condemned the wholesale slaughter as failure and urged isolation and. research treatment instead. Sir Francis Flood, representing the Ministry of Agriculture, appealed to the farmers not to throw up the sponge, thus allowing the disease mastery. A farmer retorted, amid applause, that the cure was worse than the disease. A Welsh expert suggests the disease, which is most severe among dairy herds, is possibly due to the cow’s weakened vitality a ; a result of the advanced methods of obtaining greater milk prodiiet’on. There had been a craze to produce cows giving four thousand gallon.-, yearly. KEEPING AUSTRALIA CLEAN. Received Dec. 23, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 22. The Commonwealth has instructed the High Commissioner to warn shippers of the forthcoming. prohibition of the importation into Australia of cattle, sheep, swine and goate from Britain, in view of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease.