AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1430, 3 May 1912, Page 8

AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT

TO CHECK CATTLE ABORTION, The British Board of Agriculture has entered upon an experiment in regard to abortion in cattle which will ho watched with great, interest by-agriculturists generally';.' Tfc! hoard has. placed the County of Devoir-tinder a sort-of'embargo in rogard to-aborting cows. - All cows calving prematurely within Hie county will have to be reported to the police, who 111 turn will notify tlie fact to the local authority. :lt. will then, lie.'with the veterinary inspector of the latter hotly to declare whether tho case be one of epizootic (contagious) abortion ..or not. If it be conttigiouV tlie'owner will not be able to move- tho cow for ; a period of thrco months, "except "under" license. ' Meantime, all litter of other materials . that have been in contact with (he affected subject will have to bo burned, and both th 6 cow "and the premises disinfected. The'-new"departure- is evidently tho outcome of. the repor.t of the committee which sat and considered this subject two or tlireo • The-fact that tho embargo, hns been confined to one county so far is an indication that it is somewhat of an .experiment,., which, howevf-'r, may bo extended should; success at tho first centre justify .such. , : '