400 Ewes Die After Eating Arsenic From A Discarded Tin
SYDNEY. Sept 8. —Four hundred heavily woollen Merino ewes, worth about £3OOO at current rates, died on a property at Dubbo last, week after eating arsenic from a discarded tin. Reporting the loss at. a meeting of the Pastures Protection Board, a stock inspector, Mr. A*. T. Ellis, warned stock owners that arsenical compounds, paint, white lead and phosphorous were all potential sheep killers, and that even old abandoned car batteries might kill a family house cow. The sheep loss was the biggest individual loss from this cause he had known.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 9 September 1950, Page 5
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