BLOWN CATTLE CURE

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1940, Page 2

BLOWN CATTLE CURE

EFFECTJ.VE REMEDIES Whether it was the Stockholm tar or the dirt and water or both that effected the cure or not he did not know, but, at any rate, the cow was up again and quite well, remarked a Lepperton farmer, commenting on his successful treatment of a cow that had been badly blown. He had noticed that four of his cows were blown. so he at once brought them up to the shed at a fast clip, with the object of keeping them moving. He then rubbed Stockholm tar over their muzzles onri nftQp? which it was said. keot the

jaws moving. That was a remedy that had been given him by a friend in the Riverina, Australia. where it was a daily occurrence for cattle to get blown on the clover. That farmer always carried a bottle of Stockholm tar with him in readiness for instant use when he went around his cattle. The Lepperton farmer said that one of his four cbws was so badly blown that she was down and in a bad way, so having read in the Daily News farm notes about the dirt and water remedy, he used that as well as the Stockholm tar, with successful results. As, however, he had used both he could not therefore say to which the cure was due.