BLACKLEG.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8083, 12 April 1906, Page 3

BLACKLEG.

AN EXAGGERATED KKPOItT. The settlors ill Tarauaki arc greatly alarmed at the spread of blaekleg amongst their calves, says the Wellington correspondent of the Aucklaud " Herald," and they arc now asking the Government to npjjoint a Coiumis-

i:on ,u iutjairc into it, with a view to minimising the epidemic, During a recent brief visit to the district I made many iniuirics as to the spread of this disease, and found that it hadthis season made its appearance on many farms that were hitherto free from it. Some of the settlers blamed the alleged faulty inoculation for the increase of the disease, but so far as I could ascertain there was no direct proot that there had been faulty inoculation. The fact of the matter is that the disease has got a strong hold in the district, and it will be difficult to stamp it out. Regulations quarantining the affected area wero gazetted and enforced to a certain extent, but, as Mr Gilruth stated in his last annual report, it is not to be exnected that by issuing regulations they will ever completely stamp out blackleg in the Taranaki district. The spores of the microbes are most resistant to all ordinary and even many extraordinary germidical influences, and arc capable of persisting in any «o:l for years, so that it will be necessary for a considerable period to vaccinate the young cattle on farms where the disease has alredy appeared. One very shrewd settlor, with whom I discussed the subject, stated that in many cases tho calves died through improper feeding, the necessary nutritive qualities haviiijfbecu nearly all extracted from the milk by the cream separators. The position is a very serious one for the Taranaki dairy farmers and for the district as a whole, especially in view of the extraordinarily high prices that many of the dairy farmers have given for their land. The prevalence of contagious abortion amongst cows is another serious matter for (He Tarauaki dairy fanner.

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