Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43335, 9 June 1908, Page 1

Farm Notes

CONSUMPTION AMONG T. . • STOCK.

OoNauMPxxaM- among stock is becoming a serious matter for the farmers of the Dominion, and some of the farmers do not seem alive-fo the necessity of watching and checking it and stamping, it out. Quite recently the Government Veterinarian, Mr Gilruth, said that he had examined a certain farmer’s herd of 40 cows in August last/ year; and found 21 of them:/-suffering from tuberculosis, iHe also examined 100 pigs belonging to the same farmer, and found 39 of them tuberculous. .. A few days subsequently he examined 100 more pigSy and found 60 of them similarly affected ; and" none of the pigs were over nine months old. This is a shocking record; and ' yet it is considered: to be by no means an isolated ease. Apart from the question cf the. stock itself, and the terrible loss arising from the disease, there \is the ' still more serious question of human infection through the stock so: diseased. The whole question is ; one/ fraught with the most serious consequences to the community. In the Old World the ravdges of consumption have been, in some, instances, discovered and recognised too late; The country that allows consumption to lay a firm hold on it, is in imminent peril of being mami off the map. A cow of university breeding , *as been produced in Wisconsin ; that is to say it is a cow raised by a -former 1 student in the Department of Agriculture of the State University. In the last ten months this cow has produced 23,9.81.4 pounds of milk. If she continues to produce at the same rate, she will have to her credit at the end of. the year about fourteen tons of milk, which would make about 1200 pounds? ; of butter. The same cow recently broke the seven-day record by producing more than five pounds of a day for a week. Her best single / day’s production was 112 pounds of milk, or about seven pails. She weighs little more than 1000 pounds, and is named Colanah IV’s Johanna.