INTEREST TO FARMERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 24 (Supplement)

INTEREST TO FARMERS

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papers recently made much of an alleg’ed cure for foot-aud-much disease. As I might have been expected, howver, the experts of the Ministry of Agriculture have not been greatly concerned about the matter. As a matter of fact, there arc many supposed cures for foot-and-much disease, but that Is not what is wanted. There is. indeed, little doubt that the disease can be cured, but much more to the point would be the discovery of a means whereby stock could be immunised. Our policy has not been to cure, but to prevent the disease getting a foothold in the country. It has been found, in the special circumstances of Britain ’s isolated position, that the preferable policy is to eliminate the disease when it does appear, by slaughter, rather than continuing the ‘•mess 7 -’ by attempting to cure it. Some weeks ago French and German experts were supposed to have succeeded in getting a virus which was calculate.l to prevent cattle from contracting foot-and-mouth, but little more has been heard of it for a considerable time. Something in this direction would be of much more importance than any question of finding a cure. Sheep and Wool in New South Wales. t Estimates made by the Government : Statistician of New South Wales (Mr jT. Waites) in collaboration with the 1 chief veterinary surgeon (Mr Max i' Henry) on the basis of progress totals j derived from the sheep and wool returns recently collected show that at ’ i December 31, 1927, there were about 148,000.000 sheep and lambs in New South Wales, as compared with approximately 55,000,000 at June 30, • 1927, and 54,630,000 at December 31, 1920. It is estimated that approximateily 53,000,000 sheep and lambs were j shorn or reserved for autumn shearing 5 in the current season (1927-28), yieldj ing approximately 403,000,0001 b. of ‘ • greasy wool, and giving an average clip '• of 7.61 b. The approximate value of the wool dip (exclusive of the value of wool derived from or exported on - ; n TJJ7-28, as compared with £.“.2,6s<M><H) i n 1926-27, ’ and £25,980,000 in 1925-26. Prelimin- ’ ary returns show that there were ap--1 proximately 5,200,000 sheep and lambs L slaughtered during the year 1927. The |L?xcess exports to other States was sheep ;, ' *i lambs, of were s 'V Queensland, >o r- ■- g : - It I ' i; ll f ■ r- •■ h —’• v - n!i 1 !:i ‘ ''U-iri ;•••

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Bl.’-cor.I .. bn. I j>s Lbs I Ilk Fat Days M J.826 547 365 .. a 4.431 606 305 'Can. Champ.) .. 17,833 727 365 .. 18,112 775 305 .. 23,641 978 365 ■ (-on. years .. 87,843 3,633