JYSTERIOUS DISEASE.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 9, 4 October 1937, Page 3

JYSTERIOUS DISEASE.

l. '-s OF CATTLE IN THE WAIKATO. HAMILTON, Last night. I limited that more than 2000 doi - have died in the Waikato thi> ~1 from a disease that has not yet mm- diagnosed.. The cows are attacked within 12 to 36 hours of ealvii .. and at first appear to have the -iptoms of milk fever. Their i hen become paralysed, occurs within 10 days. Jeter iy surgeons have been called in. !• have admitted that they have Wi, baffled. (, i,. i I .«nor of a boiling-down works ki' handled nearly 1000 carcases of on, death in oyer 700 ta.-i , imj due to the undiagnosed e pi<li iMi.. in addition, over 500 cows hiuc ii.cn |,,«i in the Cambridge disB't' i One Orini farmer with a herd ! : 2 eraging 2501 b. butter-fat has 17 miws thi> season and, as ealv,!l" "a bi< farm has not been compel ears other cases will occ,n'- If considers that the Agri--1 rtment should undertake a ilc jh x ientific investigation of I " i-icni with a view to ascertain- : ihe disease and tak- % step* in cheek its spread. Tin- lo>* to Waikato farmers caused V the epidemic, in the cost of rePweinent* and the loss of butter-fat, !? <>s timated to be in the vicinity of