CATTLE DISEASE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4776, 14 November 1924, Page 3

CATTLE DISEASE.

UNDISCOVERED CAUSE. FARMER LOSES SIX COWS. To Jose six cows by fleam and not to be able to discover the cause is a senouk’ matter. A ew days ago Mr Se. P. Fathers, of Te Aroha Road, Paeroa, noticed that one of his cowjs appeared sick and was staggering about. In a snort time It died, and Mr Fathers buried the body. Another animal then showed the same symptoms and Mr Fathers called in the veterinary surgeon, who was unable to locate the,trouble. Three, four, five, six cows went down in the same way and died. A thorough inspection of. th.e farm and buildings was made by Mr Fathers and the stock inspector, Mr J. P. Findlay, but no caupe could be discovered. No poisonous weed could be -found about the. place and no accident of any kind had been heard of by anyone. The cows had all got over their calving some weeks ago and \were in good condition. There is plenty of feed about, and the animals appeared all right till they were seen to stagger. Mr Fathers took every precaution to prevent infection, and after the first he burned the carcases of the other victim’. .The trouble does not appear to affect the head or the brain, only hind quarters. Another cow appeared to be affected, and Mr Fathers administered a fee of salts, followed by gruel and linseed oil. This appeared to afford some case, and yesterday Mr Fathers informed a representative of the •‘Gtoette” that the treatment appeared to be successful. Mr Findlay, stock inspector, stated that a simiiar. case was reported from the Morrinsville district seme time ago.