SORREL IS CAUSE OF LAMB MORTALITY
DOCTOR’S THEORY Press Association. INVERCARGILL, To-day. Dr. Owen Johnston, su J -rintendent of the Southland Hospital, who carried out experiments for a year to ascertain the cause of mortality in lambs, states that pulpy kidney is caused by oxalate poisoning from sorrel in the early stages of growth. The ultimate remedy would be to eliminate sorrel from pastures, but this would take a long time. In the meantime farmers would require to have sufficient sorrel-free feed to carry ewes and lambs over four to six weeks, the danger period each year. Several farmers have related incidents which support Dr. Johnston’s theory.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 201, 14 November 1927, Page 12
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