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impaction or stomachic troubles in our stock with due care and 

 attention to the details previously outlined, it is certain that if more 

 care were bestowed by stock-owuers in assisting their stock to digest 

 their food properly, by placing within easy access liberal supplies of 

 salt and iron, the amount of losses from this source, even in our driest 

 districts, would be reduced by 75 per cent. That some assistance to 

 digestion is necessary in localities where the only water the stock can 

 obtain is to be got from dams and waterholes rendered unwholesome 

 by the excreta of stock and the debris washed from the surrounding 

 lands, is a fact which none will deny, and when to this is added the 

 dry fibrous pasture, little wonder it is the stock become impacted. 



