SHEEP DISEASES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1059, 23 February 1911, Page 8

SHEEP DISEASES.

/AN INTfcItESTIXd REPORT. (3t Telegraph—l'rcss Association! < Chrlstehureh, February 22. Shoepoivners In tho Dominion havp been: experiencing s6D)e:tmeasinesS jest mortality should bo caused aiuoiig their flocks by. . the occurrenoe of the disease known as :! ■ nasal botfly. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, 5- . Minister for Agriculture, has had a rel port- on the subject prepared by ' tho ( Director, dif Livo Stock and Meat. "This ; o!B«r, a copy of whoio renOrt has been 1. sent'to Mr. G. Witty, Xl.l\, states that 1 ; ho dses not consider that stockowners in 1 . tb6 South .Island needfenr £ any coticcable ,mortality anions shccD as [, tho insult of tho attack .of tho parisito ' inentionod, as it is raro to find it causing I deatji.. Last year serious mortality oc- | enrred among sheen. 011 tho . East Coast . of tlio North Islaml as' tho result of. ; diseaied .condition .set up by dietetic ' causts. In tho beginning this mortality t was,wrongly ascribed to nasal bot, and j, . .it has been difficult to disabuse stock- | . 1 owners'minds of the idea,'but it was Teally !. :, tho oandition described as facial eczema, or facial dermatitis. By far the greater f majority of sheep harbouring parasites of I tho botfly show no indication' of any (lis- 1 ' i comfort, and farmers can ltst , assured j that up to tho present there has been I. no outbreak of mortality in New Zealand • as the result of bot.