MORTALITY IN LAMBS
POISONING PROM SORREL [ Per Press Association. ] INVERCARGILL, Nov. 14. Dr. Owen Johnston, Superintendent of the Southland Hospital, who carried out experiments for a year to ascertain the cause of mortality in lambs, states that pulpy kidney is caused by oxalate poisoning from sorrel in the early stages of growth. The ultimate remedy would be to eliminate sorrel from pastures. This would take a long time, but meantime the farmers would require to have sufficient sorrel-free feed to carry ewes and lambs over four to six weeks, the danger period of each year. Sevaral farmers relate incidents which support Dr Johnston ’g theory.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19998, 15 November 1927, Page 9
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