SERIOUS FOR STOCK.
Serious loss to v farmers has beou caused in the Northern IVairoa district by an apparently new disease that has made its appearance among cattle, writes the Northern Wairoa’ correspondent of tho Auckland “Herald,” of reports indicating that some farmers have had their stocks reduced fully 50 per cent by deaths. A curious feature is that animals apparently in the fittest condition seem most easily to fall victims to this scourge. Death usually follows soon after the first indications of anything wrong being observed. The only noticeable indication is, in fact, that, the animal, after sitting down, is unable again to rise, owing to weakness in the hindquarters. No recoveries huve been reported, and one farmer lost 33 cows out of a herd of 49, solely as a result of the complaint. Every effort has been made by the farmers to trace the cause of the disease, but without any real success. Some attribute it to the eating of certain grass, but no evidence has yet been adduced to prove this theory.
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Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 31 October 1919, Page 4
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175SERIOUS FOR STOCK. Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 31 October 1919, Page 4
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