"WOOL BALLS." D

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1736, 29 April 1913, Page 10

"WOOL BALLS." D

THEIR REPUTED EVIL EFFECT. , 'lib mortality..which. - now occurs in lbs through congestion of the kidneys, according. *to Mr. C. J. Reakes,-Chief the Livo Stock .Division of. the Departnt .of - Agriculture/ ; much' less tliair inerJy. 'At 'ono time, says Mr. Reakes, : mortality was .largely ■' a'scl'ibed'. :by. tors to the- reputed' evil effect ofwool'ii ill the Stomach, niahy.liaviiig exam- , .'dead lambs,, and, findihg - theso aculations of. wool, blamed .them for !j" tho cause of death.' This was ciiy fallacious,' and though -'it is not ilutely impossible-that .a ."wool-ball" jht under' special circumstances' work; 'chief in tlie -digestive • systems'-<-Aliv ikes say*'ho. has never" ydt."'t'eeh""a e or heard of one where ! it"tt'aS"prove(l have caused death.' As" "a"matter oft, a'considerable proportion, of fat, 'lthy lambs are found, when slaughsd, fo have theso wool-balls present in stomach.. . Last season arrangements ;o made by. the Livo,Stock Division to .ect some records/on this, point, and. at different, freezing ..works the stomachs i number of good; healthy lambs .Wcr'o mined, after slaughter,' in order to deniuo whether wool-bails- -were present not. ]n nil dO-iS were examined, and these 20.per cent, were found to conl wool-bails of varying sizes. Mr.' ikes says that the shoep-fafmcr has-no ;l to troul)lo>himself about wool-balis, •

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