What "Sundowner” Hears
Figures published in the Journal of Agriculture tor October regarding the practice of herd-testing in the Dominion, show fhat testing is more popular in the Auckland province than elsewhere. More than half of all the cows tested in New Zealand are in this province.
The discovery by Dr. Owen Johnston Superintendent of the Southland Hospital, that “pulpy kidney’’ in lambs is the result of poisoning by oxalate acid from sorrel in the early stages ot growth is of particular value to sheep farmers. Precautions can now be taken by breeders to keep ewes with young lambs off pastures containing sorrel, and the heavy losses suffered from pulpy kidney each year can thus be avoided. The rain, at present falling like a blessing on Hawke’s Bay will mean much to those who were commencing to worry over the drying effects of the westerly winds, but it is hard to please everyone, and those who are at present haymaking or shearing will no doubt look on it in another light.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 16 November 1927, Page 8
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171What "Sundowner” Hears Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 16 November 1927, Page 8
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