MILK BY-PRODUCTS.
From reports which j\ro being circulated throughout various fanning districts in the North Island (writes our travelling correspondent), it appears that Government intends next season to inlroduco some important legislation regarding the treatment of the milk by-products. There is a belief that tuberculosis is largely spread through milk impurities, and tlio Government is now making exhaustive inquiries into tho wholo subject. Experiments lately conducted at one of tho large breeding establishments in tho North Island show that through sterilised buttermilk the percentage of "tuberculosis pigs dropped from thirty to one. Pasteurisation has not been nearly so successful, but in many dairying districts where there is no system of purifying milk by-products (ho continual spread of tuberculosis amongst pigs is such as to causes much anxiety to tho authorities.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 465, 25 March 1909, Page 2
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130MILK BY-PRODUCTS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 465, 25 March 1909, Page 2
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