"THE OLD ENEMY"

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2181, 20 June 1914, Page 8

"THE OLD ENEMY"

is HPp<o W'conqtjered ? Some iiiterestiiiy remarks concerning 3isuase amongst stock wore made by Mr. Renkcs;. Chief Veterinary Surgeon of tlio Department of Agriculture,- at tho smoke concert held m connection vs'ith the sliow. ■..'■ . . .... Mr. Rcakfes states, that tuberculosis in stock—the old enemy which had given them so much trouble in the- past —was now on the'down grade. It had been a very costly disease to tho country, and it-was pleasing to state that its increase had l>cen..checkcd. He was quite sure that, if the cooperation between farmers and; tho Department's officers kept.on extending, it would tend to a still further decrease. The disease .was also oil tho. down grade in pigs. Last year, Mr... Iteakcs went on to say, tuberculosis showed a decrease of threo per cent. oh", tho'.'year before, three per cent, on thd'year before that, and one and a half pdricoiit. this year: It'was, perhaps, too'imich.to expect a three per cent. decreasffj-Vjvcry year.'.' Ho attributed the decrease very largely to the farmers thomselvos, and asked thorn to co-operate with tho Department- in • checking it.