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IN New Zealand, Askew and his co-workers have shown that cobalt plays a vital part in the healthy life of sheep and that small supplements of cobalt salts will cure sheep suffering from a type of anæmia. Sheep on Dartmoor are liable to a disease very similar in symptoms to those described by the New Zealand workers, and the usual practice of farmers is to send their flocks to lowland pastures in the autumn for two or three months.
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PATTERSON, J. Cobalt, and Sheep Diseases. Nature 140, 363 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140363a0
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