INOCULATING CATTLE.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXII, Issue 2781, 26 April 1911, Page 2

INOCULATING CATTLE.

A new idea is the inoculation of cattle,' intended for export to tropical countries, against the disease known as " red water." A Shrewsbury firm state that they have received a letter from a South African farmer who bought inoculated cattle from them. He says :—" I have pleasure^n informing you"that the inoculation against red water proved an unqualified success. It did not prevent them contracting the disease, and this I did not expect; but, fortified by the previous artificial production of the disease in England, they had only a core of reaction here, and although the symptoms (colour or urine and temperature) pointed to a severe attack, they had no difficulty in throwing off the attack in a few days, and without treatment. Since that time a lew weeks after arrival there has been no further red water reaction, though running on badly - infected land. From previous experience I have no hesitation in saying that the majority oi these cattle would have succumbed to red water, but for the English inoculation. Since then I have had great difficulty in nursing them through 'gall-sickness,' another tick-carried disease, caused by organism in the blood known as ' proplasma marginable.' I have, however, succeeded in keeping them all alive, and

they are now immune."