STARVATION OF STOCK.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1918, Page 3

STARVATION OF STOCK.

To the Editor. Sir, —As a forty years' farmer, halftime in t'll9 Old Country and half-time in Taranaki, I endorse every word written by "MB." in your issue of Wednesday in regard to the starving of stock. The calves on almost every farm are a disgrace to a civilised people. Whey is no food for calves, neither is separated milk without the addition of boiled wheat en meal, and, to give a calf a reasonable chance it should have six weeks' new milk and hay to nibble at as soon as it begins to look for something, which is generally at a fortnight old, also a dry bed and clean drinking water. Not only are the Taranaki calves a disgusting exhibition of either thi wanton cruelty of our so-called farmer.-! or of their deplorable ignorance; but calving cows and lambing ewes are equally so. Ai?o. T ask any self-respect-ing honen, countryman to look around at the cattle dogs and horses! Truly, they bespeak that raanv men attempt to farm who ought to avoid it as they would the plague, as they will bring ruin and disaster upon the industry, for rotten cattle revolve on the wheel of time only up to a certain point; then comes the cleansinj fire of some dread cattle disease.—l am, etc., P.M. Inglewood September 23.