MAMMITIS IN COWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10079, 29 August 1910, Page 5

MAMMITIS IN COWS.

A RAPIDLY SPREADING DISEAbE.

i In answer to a|question put to him by a farmer in Masterton on Saturday night, Mr Taylor* M.R.Rv'.S/. of the Agricultural Deoartmient', seated,-that there was; as yet, : fro known remedyifor mammitissin'coWfli The disease was highly contagiousi, and was due to. a bacteria known as the strepto coccus. Experiments were now being made at the laboratory at Wellington with a serum, which it was hoped might prove an antidote to the disease. At present all he could recommend was that cows which suffered from the d sease be isolated and fattened off for the butcher. The disease did not affect the meat of the cow in the slightest degree. He impressed upon farmers the deeirableness of refraining from offering diseased cows by auction. Mammitis, he said, was not yet scheduled as a contagious d'sease. The disease was rapidly spreading, and it was going to cause much 1 trouble to dairy farmers. Indeed, unless it was checked it would cripple I the dairy industry.

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