MORTALITY IN CATTLE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1384, 9 March 1912, Page 8

MORTALITY IN CATTLE.

BREEDER COMPLETELY PUZZLED. The Upper Opaki correspondent of the "Manawatu Times" chronicles the following case: — "One of my neighbours reported to mo the other day that he was completely puzzled regarding a mob of mother-reared calves, which were gradually going off to skeletons from somo unaccountable reason, and death in many cases resulting. Drenching and repeated change of good clean pasture failed to prove a remedy, and an appeal to tho Agrouliurnl Department was without avail. Perhaps some readers can state a reason why sucji ;ui excellent mob of weaned calves should gradually pine away ii\ Ihe niiininr di>swil>?d. ilist at a time when Uiey should be putliiig on. flesh? It naturally looks like a case of poisoning, but the owner assures 1110 that such h /nt Hie with regard to any of the known poisonous shrubs."

Jlr. T , . .T. Shelton, represenlative in T,nntli)ii. of the New Xenlnnd I'roducers' Association who is at present in Xeiv Zealand in connection with the movement io secure better accommodation at the London docks for Now Zealand frozen produce will probably return to London at an enrly date. for Children'o Racking Cough at Night. ■WoodV Great Peppermint Cure, U, Bd."