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His sheep win prizes and break all local records
Not only did the health of his stock improve out of sight, but he began to win prizes at stock shows. He also broke all local records for lamb weight, fleece condition and reproduction rates.
He began to prosper by buying in cheap, sub-standard lambs (‘low grade tiddlers’ as he called them) off other farms. Next season he would send them out as fine, healthy, top-priced fat lambs.
He writes of these formerly sub-standard sheep,
"They play in the paddocks like long tailed lambs and I enjoy watching them. They are undoubtedly healthy and fit."
All of this was achieved by providing the right balance of trace minerals.
22 essential minerals for stock health
Brown Trotter didn’t stop there. He continued to study deeply and to experiment with his animals. Eventually he compiled a list of 22 essential minerals for stock health. Then he began to share his new found knowledge with other farmers at farming conferences.
Some of these farmers tested his methods and began to also get excellent results. One of them wrote to the Timaru Herald saying, "After hearing Mr Trotter at Mayfield last year, I sowed a paddock of young grass with the minerals he recommended. The lambs this year off the above paddock are a flock-master’s delight. They have never been drenched, vaccinated, or had any stock lick. Quite a contrast to the rest of the lambs on my property."
Stimulating debates reported
His talks to farmers were soon reported in local newspapers and NZ farming journals. Brown Trotter was a big outspoken man and called a spade a spade. He soon created an uproar.
Some of his reported comments, such as,
"Pasture development as recommended by the Department of Agriculture is a load of rubbish" upset the Department’s ‘qualified experts’.
He also upset the vets by describing their work as
"a science which deals only with symptoms."
As a result, these men tried strongly to publicly disprove his methods. Brown Trotter writes,
"I stirred up a hornet’s nest."
The early part of this book contains some of these interesting
and highly stimulating newspaper debates between the experts with their learned theories, and Brown Trotter with his spectacular results. At this stage of his life he did not realise the profound effects his findings would have on human health, especially his own. This came in later years when his own health failed.
Yet throughout these turbulent early years, he remained humble. He said,
"I do not pretend to know all the answers. I now realise just how little we all know."
He also said, "I love all our animal population and I care about our people."
Even his most out-spoken critic, a Lincoln College vet admitted,
"Mr Trotter is a sound, progressive farmer, apparently an acute observer and an influential member of his district."
Brown Trotter’s heart becomes bad
When Brown Trotter turned 59, he was making good money from his farm and his animals were among the healthiest in New Zealand. He had won numerous prizes at stock shows yet he himself was, in his own words, "decrepit, very lame, and with a bad heart."
He would often black out.
At age 64, an X-ray and cardiograph revealed a severely diseased heart. He was immediately flown to Greenlane Hospital in Auckland to be operated on. This was just to hold the situation and perhaps gain another year or two of life.
When Brown came home from the hospital, he continued to deteriorate. He writes,
"I couldn’t read. About two lines and I fell asleep. This was an existence I came to dread. I realised I was turning into a cabbage."
His heart heals dramatically in six months
Finally, again in desperation, he decided to try taking the same minerals that had worked miracles with the health of his sheep. So he began taking his sheep minerals – magnesium, zinc, selenium and iodine.
A dramatic turn around occurred. His energy, alertness and strength began to return speedily, despite the fact that he was still smoking heavily. Six months later, at age 65, after 20 years of ill-health he describes himself as
"healthy."
At age 67, to the disbelief of the doctors at Princess Margaret Hospital, he recorded a perfect cardiograph. His physician Dr Hull proclaimed,
"It has never been known in medical history!"
A dozen skin moles drop off
Soon after this, Brown Trotter wrote, "I am healthier now than I have been in the last 25 years. I have not had a cold, have not had a headache. In fact I have been very well."
He found another unexpected health benefit also,
"I had at least a dozen moles on my back. These moles have all split into four quarters and dropped off."
Brown lived a further 13 years. He died in 1984 in his 80th year, of cancer, but his heart remained robust and healthy to the end.
The cancer spread from treatment of a cancerous cigarette burn to his lip. Had he known of cancer’s link with excess dietary phosphorus discovered by 100 year old Australian farmer Percy Weston, things could well have been different. Percy Weston’s life paralleled his own in many ways.
A book packed full of valuable information
Only some of Brown Trotter’s findings have found their way into modern NZ farming. MAF still encourages heavy acid-fertiliser use, with all its attendant soil and stock health problems.
Brown wrote this book some years ago. It was originally published in a different format and on a small scale by the Timaru Herald as
"Rape of our Heritage." This new clearer version was published in 2005. But there is nothing old fashioned about this book. It is just packed full of profitable and useful information.
The farmers who proof-read this new version have all commented on how much they have learned from this book. Even just one of Brown Trotter’s many recommendations could pay for your book many times only, such as only needing to lime once every 6 or 7 years. Ordering details are on the back page of this brochure.
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You will find answers to these and many other
stock health (and human health) questions
• What is the best particle size of limestone for solubility? page 33
• What commonly used trace mineral is responsible for stock trouble on NZ soils with a pH of 6.0 or more? page 103
• Which mineral can drain all the copper from an animal’s body? p186
• What initial mineral treatment did Brown Trotter give to the sub-standard lambs he bought from other farms? p129
• How to release bound-up iodine by changing the pH of your soil. p139
• What common farming action ties up boron, iron, zinc, copper, manganese and magnesium in the soil? p141
• Why liming only once every 6 or 7 years is usually sufficient. p145
• What is the optimum soil pH for pasture growth? p145
• Why intestinal worms only become a menace in stock health when nutrition fails. p148
• Which two minerals lacking in NZ soils, greatly improve stock (and human) fertility? p151
• How Brown Trotter’s son gained over 1000 extra lambs from 3000 ewes using a three mineral pre-tup (pre-breeding) drench. p151
• Why you should consider applying common salt on your pasture. p93
• The four minerals South Island soils are critically deficient in? p170
• Which mineral should clear-up human breast cancer should it develop? p 170
• How we could set a healthy soil standard using a scientific mineral spectrometer. p155
• What treatment caused Southland red tussock soil to give fantastic pasture returns for more than ten years? p156
• How Brown Trotter healed his heart disease using just four minerals. Chapter 30
• Which mineral is the best body purifier
and healer known? p170
• What mineral deficiency can cause sudden death in piglets? p176
• Which types of NZ soil are usually deficient in selenium? p173 P175
• Which NZ city residents tested less than a quarter of the UK average
for blood Selenium? p174
• How does the selenium content of our meat and milk compare with
overseas figures? p175
• What happened to blood selenium levels of four American scientists
who visited NZ for 7 months? p182
• What is the difference in NZ human blood selenium levels between the
highest and lowest selenium soil areas? p178
• Which mineral lack has been linked with cancer in both cow udders and women’s breasts? p178
• Which important vitamin, and two important minerals, are very low in NZ milk? p180
• Why green, healthy looking plants still often lack minerals. p181
• Which vitamin reduces the incidence of colon cancer by 75%? p181
• What unexpected thing happened after three weeks when selenium
was injected into NZ dairy cows? p184
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Extracts from Brown Trotter’s book
All soils can produce highly
"There does not seem to be any technical reason why all soils could not be brought to a high state of production."
Perfect animal health attainable
"Minerals in various combinations carry out every function of the body. Therefore perfect health should be attained when we supply to our animals correct minerals in the correct ratio."
Soil bacteria "The available mineral content of the soil controls the bacterial population. Once the balance of the soil is destroyed, these health-giving bacteria can no longer exist and are replaced by undesirable bacteria."
Lime and super "If only 99 lbs of minerals are lost to stock each year per acre, where then does the scientific case come from which recommends an application of two tons (4500 lbs) of lime and two to three cwt (336 lbs) of superphosphate per acre?"
Soil mineral balance
"It is impossible to alter one soil condition and keep existing minerals constant. Whatever we add will stimulate some minerals and depress incompatible or unfriendly minerals."
Earthworms "In 1940 I ploughed 40 acres and did not see a worm. I ploughed up slaters instead. The earthworm returned following the application of copper, cobalt, and iron."
Too much nitrogen "This is probably the nastiest situation possible for stock. For raising the nitrogen locks up the magnesium and cobalt. Lack of magnesium will cause grass staggers, and lack of cobalt ill-thrift. Testing on my property has shown that one crop of wheat, grown without fertiliser, reduced the nitrogen content of the soil 50%. Tests of the following new pasture showed that the cobalt supply improved 2½ times."
Pasture palatability "When a pasture contains the mineral balance which an animal requires, it will always be palatable, regardless of length. The greatest strain on mineral balance is always in periods of lush growth."
NZ Agricultural research
"So much research has been wasted, taking one mineral out of a combination and spending a lot of time on it alone, without ensuring that its co-partners are in adequate supply. This common practice only leads to dead ends and wrong conclusions."
"The bright eyed doctors, professors, and Department of Agriculture have conned the farmers into tying up essential minerals of the soil and making them unavailable. And also destroying countless billions of health-giving bacteria in the soil at the same time. The department will doubtless defend themselves by pointing to the vast increase in stock numbers which has occurred as a result of their development recommendations. But they are not nearly so keen that anybody also quote the resultant rise in the money spent on stock health
remedies."
"Nowhere in the world has any worthwhile attempt been made to set a health-giving standard of mineral content of the soil to work towards."
Salt lack in the soil
"Sheep in the Upper Mackenzie, have fought so hard to get salt (sodium) that smothers are not unknown."
Plants that make salt available from the soil "White clover, sub-terranean clover, lotus, cocksfoot, phalaris, ryegrass, sweet vernal, yorkshire fog, cabbage, and the beet family."
Stock worms "Worm attack was made possible from the lack of copper, cobalt or iron."
Vets "They are prone to look for cure rather than cause. Remove the cause and the cure naturally follows."
Fertilising "The future of the grassland industry has been sacrificed for spectacular, short-term results in land development. The use of too much lime and super has resulted in years of ill-thrift and heavy lamb losses."
22 essential elemental minerals
"We will start with the ‘big four:’ Phosphorus, Calcium, Potassium (potash) and Nitrogen. Then come the trace minerals: Copper, Cobalt, Iron, Selenium, Fluorine, Boron, Manganese, Zinc, Iodine, Magnesium, Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Sulphur, Molybdenum, (or Tungsten, Vanadium), Sodium and Chlorine."
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Testimonials from farmers
"This is a fantastic book and could not be more suited to a man like myself. This book is a Classic really. Good stockmen are born not made. Brown Trotter stood his ground from experience and it comes through the book."
Islay
MacLean. Farmer.
"Farmers today are more aware of the need for trace minerals, but most are still completely ignorant of the true situation."
David Walpole. Farmer with degree in Chemistry.
"Brown Trotter had the ability to understand what he observed on his farm, and the determination to track down the science to explain it. Percy Weston would have surely been a great mate of Brown Trotter had they known each other."
"We farmers are the only experts on our own farms. There is no real need for high chemical fertiliser costs, nor high animal health costs due to poor practices. All we have to do is get a hold of the information which is out there and utilise it for our own benefit. It is the food we produce that dictates the health of our nation."
Ewan Campbell. Beef farmer and owner of a NZ natural fertiliser company.
"I am a dairy farmer and I’m finding the same thoughts as Brown Trotter. I’m using minerals for my cows all year round. What a difference?. Vet bills have dropped. Cows are happier."
D. J. Crow.
"Thank you for the opportunity of purchasing Percy Weston and Brown Trotters books. I have finished Percy's book and am quarter way through Brown Trotters.
I just wanted to let you know how absolutely fascinating the books are, and basically confirming some ideas I have personally held regarding people and animal health and the huge upsurge of cancer in NZ, especially in my own and younger generations."
Maureen Cuthbertson
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