How Pleuro-pneumonia may be Spread.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1213, 8 April 1880, Page 2

How Pleuro-pneumonia may be Spread.

The proclamation of the newly declared infected district, including Kirikiriroa and Tamahere, is making itself felt in many ways. If the disease is to be kept from spreading, and the part of the district actually holding diseased cattle has a larger clean area surrounding proclaimed along with it in order to keep the country beyond free from danger, it follows, not only for the sake of those owniilg cattle within the as yet clean parts of the declared infected district, but for the sake of the clean country beyond, that the disease should be kept back from the outer circles, ancl in fact confined as much as possible to the estates themselves on which it has actually appeared. But then, as a large and influential stock-owner in Kirikiriroa puts the question, how, if cattle are allowed to roam from one end of the district to the other, is the spread of • the disease to be arrested? Persons are prevented from removing cattle themselves, at the risk of spreading the disease ; but how about those cattle that remove themselves? If cattle on the run can roam without hindrance from Hamilton East to Hokonui the disease may be disseminated very effectually, notwithstanding any proclamation. Not a week ago, we were informed, a bull from Hokonui, or one that is to be seen anywhere between the two places, was trying the fences .of our informant in order to get amongst his heifers. This sort of thing requires to be stopped. Straying bulls have been a great evil in the past, but now the evil is very much aggravated. Indeed, unless people are compelled to keep their cattle within their own fences, there will be no checking the spread of the disease if it once gets in amongst us.