ANIMAL DISEASES
Britisit Researeh Council s Move Thp British Agricultural Reseafch Council, carrying out the decieion announced last November, is nogotiatiug to purehase Mr, Alfred Barclay's farm at Comptou Manor, Berkshire, as a cpntre for experimputs in axxxmal diseases, This step ia the xuost spectacuiar yot takeh hy the council, Hitherto it has workod through twenty committees (including i« their scope other subjecte besides disease), but it has made no completely co-ordxnnted attack on the problenx of animal. disorders. It is estimated that mastitie, abortaon, sterility, tuberculosis and Johne's disease involve an annual loss in Briain of from £15,000,000 to £18,000,000. Fowl paralyeis, coccidiosis, intestixial parasxtos and other disorders also exact a formidable toll, and their causes are still largely unsolved. The Govermxxent incjuiry anto the reorganisation of tlie poultry inclustry found that the greatest advaxxce that could be made On the production side is the control and clhmnatioji of disease. Bo l'ur the advice most i'requently given lo farmers is to kill, not how to (>revent and car«.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 142, 3 July 1937, Page 19
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