TONING UP THE HERD.
WITH ULTRA-VIOLET RAYS. Car milking cows be toned up with the aid of artificial sunlight? was a novel pednt at an address on electricity as applied to agriculture, given by Mr A. C. Cameron Brown at the Moulton Farm Institute, Northampton, recently.- The principal, Mr W. A. Stlcwart, raised the question during the discussion, and said that toward the end of February or the beginning of March farmers had a certain amount of trouble with their milking cows, apparently because they had got to a low vitality at the end of the winter, through lack of sunshine. Would it be possible, where a farm had an electrical supply, to give the cows the ultra-violet raps? Mr B. W. Gothard, A.MJ.E.E., said he had never heard of the theory of applying ultra-violet rays treatment to cows, but he thought it was quite feasible, and the cost would be next to nothing. Hens laid more eggs, and mare cheerfully, if an electric light was placed in the laying pens, and at the Zoo the monkeys enjoyed the ultra-violet rays.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 268, 24 December 1928, Page 5
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