MORTALITY IN CATTLE.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1919, Page 11

MORTALITY IN CATTLE.

SUPPOSED NEW DISEASE. Serious losses to farmers have been caused in fhe Northern Wairoa district by an apparently new disease that has made its appearance among cattle, ■writes the N.Z. Herald's Northern Wairoa correspondent, reports indicating that some farmers have had their stock reduced fully 60 per cent, by deaths. A curious feature is that animals apparently in the fittest condition, seem most easily to fall victims to this scourge Death usually follows soon after the first indications of anything being wrong are observed. The only noticeable indication is, in fact, that the animal, after sitting down, is unable again to rise, own? to weakness in the hindquarters. No recoveries have been reported, and one farhier lost 33 cows, out of a herd of 49, solely as a result of the complaint. Every effort has been made by the farmers to trace the cause of the disease, but without any real success. Some attribute it to the eating of certain grtisSt but no evidence has yet been «4iKe«A tB % MOV» thi» theory,