MAMMITIS.
The dairy herds in New Zealand are being decimated by a bacteria known as mammitis. The bapteria, which is one of the most destructive known to veterinary pathologists, is described as the strepto coccus. It affects the udders of cows, and is highly contagious. Unhappily, veterinary scientists have so far been unable to discover a successful remedy for the disease, though it is hoped that a serum may yet be found which will combat the spread of the bacillus. Meanwhile, it. is the duty pf dairy farmers, vnhen they detect the presence of th&: disease, to isolate the «ow infected, anct fatten it off for the butcher. It is remarkable that the Agrieulirural Department, knowing ihe highly infectious nature of the disease, has not moved the Minister to have it scheduled contagions, So that infected beasts inight not fe& offered for sale in ' ojdjr aaleyar3s« ; 5 . _. ~ '
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10079, 29 August 1910, Page 4
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147MAMMITIS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10079, 29 August 1910, Page 4
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