FARM NOTES

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 279, 14 March 1929, Page 7

FARM NOTES

' PATENT STOCK MEDICINES. USEFULNESS QUESTIONED. Government Control Urged. Strictures of Farmers’ Union. The necessity for Government regulation of stock veterinary medicines was stressed at the annual meeting of the Morrinsville branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union on Saturday. The newly-elected president, Mr. <5. Pirrit, said these patent concoctions for the 1 cure of disease in stock •were getting more abominable every year. He had tried one mixture for vaginitis and had had more trouble than when he used nothing. He had paid £2 17s 6d a tin and it was useless. He had written to the Department of Agriculture and had been told that they would sell him rs much of the mixture as he liked at 2s 6d a tin. Efforts should be made to prevent this roguery. He had been “ stung ” badly.

Mr. R. Saxon said he had used the same concoction and had never effected a cure. Mr. J. M. Allen said he thought the branch could do a lot of good by seeking the views of farmers and publishing them. Mr. A. Topham : Why not name the powder the president referred to? The President : It would be too dangerous. (Laughter.) Mr. Pirrit thought that any patent veterinary medicine exposed for sale should bear the stamp of Government approval. Mr. S. Ferguson said he had tried every remedy on the market in past years. This year he used no medicine at all and had less trouble than ever before. Mr. R. Saxon said he had found he had less trouble when he used no medicines.

A resolution was passed unanimously that the secretary write to the Auckland executive recommending that an advisory committee be set up to examine rmd report on all proprietary stock medicines, and that it be a recommendation to the Government that all such medicines be brought under the Food and Drugs Act.