LOSS THROUGH DISEASE.
STAGGERING FIGURES.
Morrinsville . Farmer’s Experience.
To those not closely associated with the dairying industry, the serious postion arising in the Morrinsville district through the prevalence of disease in dairy stock is not fully comprehended. The cryptic statement that the loss is 20 per cent conveys a little but not all. The experience of a Morrinsville farmer this season will convey just how the economic position is affected by mammitis, which ranks with vaginitis and abortion as the most serious complaint. His herd is a large one of good quality, there being 240 head. Thirty of the cattle, that is 12i per cent, contracted mammitis and had to be put out. The average cost of these cows, winch were among the best in the herd, was £l2,' and as culls they brought only from £3 to £4. Thus the direct loss was £270. Far more serious than this, however, was : the loss in butter-fat. As the cows contracted mammitis within two months of calving a, season’s milking was lost. An estimate of the loss in butter-fat was 50001 b, which at Is 6d per lb is the equivalent of £-375. Thus the total loss in this herd was £645.
If this is the loss through disease in a herd of 240 cows, what then must the loss in the district be ?
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 294, 27 June 1929, Page 5
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223LOSS THROUGH DISEASE. Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 294, 27 June 1929, Page 5
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