BLACKLEG AMONG STOCK
DISEASE AT TE KUITI NO CAUSE FOR ALARM A mild epidemic of blackleg is reported to have broken out among stock in the Te Kuiti district and many farmers attribute the prevalence of the disease to the dry weather and the increasing use of imported bonedust fertilisers. Questioned this morning, Mr. W. * • Collins, chief veterinarian officer of the Department of Agriculture, stationed at Auckland, said that blackleg liad been known in both the Waikato and King Country for a number of years. Wherever it was reported officers of the department gave it their immedl-; ate attention and, generally, the whole herd in which the disease was located was inoculated. By such methods it was kept under control. In regard to the statement that imported bone-dust was the cause of the trouble, Mr. Collins said that the mere fact that the process of manufacture necessitated the bones being put through an intense sterilising heat should be sufficient to refute that theory. There might be a few cases in the Te Kuiti district at the present time, but Mr. Collins expressed confidence that there was no cause for alarm.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 280, 16 February 1928, Page 15
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