DISEASED CATTLE.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1915, Page 7

DISEASED CATTLE.

To the Editor. Sir,—At the fortnightly stock stale at Stony River there appeared a cow in a side pen which cast a gloom on the sale. This cow was suffering from contagious malignant bleeding cancer, in an advanced stage. So great was the outer growth that it was visible to the naked eye fully thirty chains away. No man, unless he saw the state the cow was In, could have such a shocking case could have existed'in our midst. You often hear grumbles about some old oow condemned by a Government inspector, that there are, "too many inspectors about," or some'similar remark, but, Sir I consider the time ripe for the Government to appoint inspectors to go through all the dairy herds in Taranakl—in fact, throughout the whole of New Zealand—at least once a year, to exterminate all diseased tattle. We sometimes call ourselves progressive, but how can we be progressive if we tear our children on the milk and butter of diseased cowsf 1 have been amongst dairy cows in Taranaki for the past thirty years, and also served my time at the boiling-down works on the Barrett road, where diseased cattle are destroyed, but I never saw anything to equal what I saw in the s&leyardjj on this occasion.—l am, <*<>•> DISGUSTED. Okato, Stfitembu 18.