STRANGE EVIDENCE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 552, 27 July 1920, Page 4

STRANGE EVIDENCE.

500,000 BLOOD SUCKERS AT WORK.

The other day on a farm not a j hundred miles from Auckland a milking cow was found dead, having fallen over a bank. It was noticed that clinging to the end of almost every hair of the cow's hide were innumerable lice. An effort was made to roughly estimate their number, and | by taking a patch six inches square and counting them and multiplying the remaining space a conservative estimate put the number of lice on the cow in question at the incredible number of half a million. A farmer present made the observation that almost haff the cows in the Waikato were infected with lice in the winter and early spring, and also that in his opinion this reduced their milk yield at least one quarter. Just reckon the astounding waste. If hp.lf the herds in the Waikato are infected with lice, and a-quarter of their yield lost to the farmer, it means that thousands of pounds every year go to feed these hungry parasites.

Here, then, is a remedy: Buv a Tin of "THOMPSON'S LICI'.RINi-V' and smear a little down the animal's back. Licerine kills them all. An absolutely new preparation, wonder- : ful in its results. Effective on Cattle, ' Horses, and Pigs. Obtainable at all stores, or 21b sample tin posted on receipt of us 6d. SOLE AGENTS: THE 'FRISCO AND DOMINION EXPORT CO., COOK ST. AUCKLAND.