BUSH SICKNESS.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17837, 9 October 1929, Page 11

BUSH SICKNESS.

IRON AS A CURE. A new cure for bush sickness Is announced in the annual report of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. A section in the report states; — "Seeking for a form of Iron which would have all the advantages of the double citrate and none of its disadvantages, experiments have been made with a native cabbonate of iron which was obtained from a quarry near Auckland. This has the advantage that it is insoluble and not likely to have such ill-effects on the animals when taken in excess. The difficulty was to grind the singularly hard, tough boulders into a very fine powder. This was eventually accomplished with the aid of a paint manufacturer’s mill on a small scale, and finally by the phosphate mill of an Auckland firm on a much larger scale. "A farmer then tried the material, mixed with common salt, in the hails of three bush-sick cows, which recovered under the treatment. He tnen. tried it on the herd in he field and found that all those which would take the lick improved under the treatment compared with those few which refused to take it. The experiments are accordingly being extended.”