LIVE STOCK DISEASES
TESTING OF REMEDIES.
Palmerston North, Nov. 17
The Dairy Farmers’ Union recently wrote the Minister of Agriculture suggesting that all reputed cures for diseases in live stock be given an exhaustive test by departmental officers before being put on the market; further, that in the event of such remedies proving ineffective their distributing be prohibited by law. In reply the -Minister advises that while he is in sympathy with the suggestion, he is also of the opinion that it could not be given effect to. If tests were carried out some success would no doubt be obtained in most cases, and however small the measure of success, the Government could not condemn or prohibit its sale without being involved in endless disputes. In purchasing an individual should be free to use his own discretion. Discussing the matter, members expressed the opinion that the department should make titanic efforts to eradicate those diseases like mammitis and abortion, which were undermining the dairying industry at present. They were only playing with the matter. It w:, 6 decided to write the department inquiring if if was in touch with what was being done in other countries.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 18 November 1927, Page 3
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196LIVE STOCK DISEASES Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 18 November 1927, Page 3
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