Coast Fever in Cattle.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 41, 18 February 1904, Page 4

Coast Fever in Cattle.

jEjfffr&SHhodesian Go.veiTrnio.nt, and South African colonics tire services of the TVr Koch, the great bao 'lEj&f foist,' has now bcun en. '^■flirrTTr"'lW months experimonta view to discovering a "oosat few'' >n cattle. He '*»flKparfaWßofeal station situf iiKi , «iw rc ® il<B fram Bulu cattle are brougivt from of Africa for treatment, <tm tb* strictest precautions are S-tWKJVto see that the cattle do not iSifflfl the disease by outside wi tSfott- All their food is brought b> a train a distance of more than ~100-railea (rotn a point outside the • ihfecfck! area, the oaittle are boused . . .fci stables, about which the great-",-est cleanliness is ot&erved, and * they are ted regjitarty throughout ( the day. Attached to t>he station is t A cbemioH laboratory, where ticks ■i. odd other parasites are hatched by .. . tpf "« of incubators similar to those r - used for hatching cbickene in New Zeahwid. Dr. Koch has with hini a large staff, of assistants, who came ► from -GertmaHy, arid some of tha test veterinary surgeons in the country. Up to the present 'he has * not advanced any definite opinion as to tibe success of his efforts, but he

• cis very sanguine of ultimate success. ■. Bo hati so far Succeeded m tracing L the disease to a blue tick, with [ . wMctt a large numtier of experimarts are being made. From six f to Ma yMrs ago large hei«ds of cat- ; tie roamed at will over the country ■ f .Wonting for the most part to the " v natives. Hese cattle were splendid i- animals, add excellent for milk or ■ Weef. in those •days every native counted his -weßftth in cattle, but .a^iass* 1 * a «**"*« t<> •>« well hi mm oouwtry, and a member ■, t .«/.jp»r- : Kocf*'s vetcrimary staff, who #*» there in the CUiys when Hho.y. desia teemed with cattle, is very optimistic in regairf to the future of die country, and freely expresses the ,i" opinion that the day is not far distant when the Rhodes!an veldt will ■ arain suuyort ttrtusanda of cattle. WJmi I)r. Koch has succeeded in cortlitring tbeso deadly diseases, £• ' RlViiesia should t>ecome one of the in the