NASAL BOT.
By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Sheepowners in the Dominion have been experiencing some uneasiness lest mortality should be caused among their flocks by the occurrence of a disease known as the nasal bot fly. ■ " Tfye Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister for Agriculture, has had a report on the" subject prepared by the director of live stock and meat. This officer, a copy of whose report has been sent to Mr G. Whitty, M.P., states that he does not consider that stock owners in South Island or elsewhere need iear any noticeable mortality among sheep as a result of attacks from the parasite mentioned, as it is rare to find it causing death. Last year ser r ions mortality occurred among sheep on the east coast of the North Island, as the result of a diseased condition set up by dietetic causes. In fhe beginning tins mortality was wrongly ascribed to nasal bot, and it has been difficult to disabuse stock'ow-ners-.of that idea, but it was really a condition described as facial eczema;" orofacial dermatitis. 'By far the greater of sheep harbouring 1 parasites of the bot fly show no indication of any discomfoirt,; and farmers ' can rest assured that, up to the present, there has been no outbreak of mortality in New Zealand as the result of nasal bot.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10173, 24 February 1911, Page 5
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221NASAL BOT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10173, 24 February 1911, Page 5
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