FACIAL ECZEMA
OUTBREAK UNLIKELY THIS YEAR. CONDITIONS IN DOMINION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 2. With the changed conditions prevailing, a recurrence this season of the facial eczema epidemic which caused havoc among farm' stock in the Auckland province and elsewhere last autumn, is regarded as unlikely by agricultural authorities. It is considered that a number of factors contribute to the development of the disease and few, if any, of these are present this year. “It has been found that outbreaks have followed a very hot season in which warm rain has fallen in the autumn,” one authority said. “This has apparently had the effect of not only stimulating abundant and rapid growth, in which the chlorophyll, or green colouring matter, is pot properly formed, but it also favours such soil activities as fungi, which liberate poisons that promote conditions favourable to the disease.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1939, Page 3
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