DISEASE FREE MEAT.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19887, 16 May 1936, Page 13

DISEASE FREE MEAT.

AGITATION IN ENGLAND. There has been agitation in England in regard to the import of diseased cattle carcases being exported from the Argentine to England, that. Is, cattle which have suffered from foot-and-mouth disease. It is reported that England would have a clean sheet as far as this disease was concerned were it not for re-lnfeotlon from abroard and it is stated that one of the causes of this re-lnfectlon is the importation of cattle carcases from South America where foot-and-mouth is rampant. Although there is an agreement between South America and England as to the inspection of animals slaughtered for export, or animals in contact with elaughtered animals, the agreement is honoured more in the breach than the observance. A prominent English authority points out, that whereas every animal diseased with foot-and-mouth In England is destroyed as also every animal which has been in contact with the diseased animal, It is extraordinary that England did not Insist on (Similar precautions being taken by foreign competitors. “Steaming Up" Cows, Those agricultural organisers and others who have induced farmers to “steam up” their cows with a view to producing high yields have done injury to the live stock industry, said a vetinary authority at a meeting of the Farmers’ Club in London. It 'had, he said, reduced the cow’s power of resistance to disease and reduced her usefulness in the herd. Nothing diminished a cow’s production more than irregular milking. The increase in animal disease during recent years was attributed by another speaker to the overstocking of farms resulting from modern methods of the means taken to obtain high production in dairy animals and early maturity in pigs.