STAGGERS IN STOCK
Green Feed Essential for Cure Staggers are very prevalent among stock just now and the oHly remedy-is to get them off aftected paddocks and on to fresh feeding. A green paddock ds most useful but in the present dry season very few are available. Thfr position can be met to a great exteut if sorne willows are available . which could be lopped. Green feed is most essential and willow leaves are quite useful for this purpose. The trouble is dye to fungoid spores falling off the seed heads and being picked up by sheep, where they are obliged to close feed especially. This fungoid is known as ergot which affects tall fescue and ry& to a lesser extant where pot under gra^ihg control. In cattle ergot has quite a serious effect, one of the fesults being ergotised feet. Little provision has been made by many farmers to meet sUch a position. The putting awhy of a lot of surplus feed as green ensilage would have been. most useful jnst now in giving to elleep in this condition. With the abundant rain during the late spring and early summer the need for such a provision appeared most unlikely, but the wisdom of providing to meet siich an emergeney is now being made apparent to many farmers.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 98, 12 May 1937, Page 15
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