DAIRY COWS AFFLICTED.
TROUBLE IN WEST 'TARANAKI. "Ergot, in cows, which seams to bo a foot disease in some -measure akin, to footrot in sheep, has made a 'somewhat sudden, and, on a few dairy farms, serious appearance in the vicinity of Wares," says a contributor to tho "Taranaki Herald/' , "There are herds of from CO to 30 head of milking cows in which maybe found ten or twelve limping about with great difficulty, and evidently enduring much pain. The disease doe's not, by . the nature of it, affect the milk-giving powers of the animals, but as it makes them almost incapable of getting-about in search of food, the milking value, is very moteri-. ally decreased. . ' , , -', "The -net weather just at the time when the grass is in bloom causes, it is said, the poison of the blossom to'find its.way. into any wound of the foot, and so sets up suppuration."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1011, 29 December 1910, Page 8
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151DAIRY COWS AFFLICTED. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1011, 29 December 1910, Page 8
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