DISEASED COWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 May 1913, Page 4

DISEASED COWS.

In an address to dairymen at Chi k'tchutch out Friday last, Mr A. A. Johnson, late Government Veterinary Inspector for the South Island, made some interesting observations. Among other things, he said:— "He believed wholesale testing of cattle was beginning at the wrong end. If all -milk products were pasteurised:, one source of tuber-, eulosis would be eliminated alto- ! get her. In New Zealand, bacteriological tests ware made of the milk, and the eattfe were examined from time to' time. A new order came into .England on May Ist last, providing 'for haif-eompra.sa-tion being paid for cows kill :d, the local authority being charged with the control and inspection of the milk supplied. The order aimed at the destruction of all bovine animals suffering from emaciation, since these were generally kin-own to contain the germs of the disease. Local .authorities wer© bound to authorise the destruction of any animals found suffering from any form of tuberculosis. If the post mortem showed that the -animal was not suffering' from the disease, the full value of the animal, together with '2os extra,, was to be paid as compensation. If it were found suffering from tuberculosis, compensation was paid proportionate with the growth of the disease. This order went very little further than the New Zealand Stock Act, but it treated the farmer in a fair manner, amd he (Mr suggested, that the dairymen 'shouldattempt to oßtaiw an amendment of their schedule, more in consonance with the> value of dair\ cat- ' tie."