13G Bureau of Farmers' Institutes. 



Mr. Banks (Assistant State Entomologist, Albany). — The appli- 

 cation, carefully made of kerosene, or of mercurial ointment on 

 the spot under which the bot or grub is lying, will prove an almost 

 certain remedy for this pest. 



Question.- — Is there a permanent cure for garget in cows? 



Dr. Smead. — - Some cows are born gargety. They cannot be 

 cured. As a rule, if treatment is resorted to before the udder has 

 become inflamed, the disease can be removed. Bathing the udder 

 with hot water and a dose of aconite and poke root given internally, 

 are the best remedies I know. 



Question.- — What is good for a horse's foot where the hoof has 

 become hard and feverish ? 



Dr. Smead. — When horses are allowed to stand on a hard floor, 

 their feet sometimes become feverish. Wrap cloths around the 

 feet and saturate them with hot water. A mixture made of one 

 ounce oil of tar, one of turpentine, and two of raw linseed oil, 

 rubbed on at the summit of the hoof, is a good remedy. 



Question. — Are tuberculous germs located elsewhere in the 

 animal except in the lungs? 



Dr. Smead. — Yes. Tuberculosis may be present in other or- 

 gans of the animal than the lungs. Tuberculosis of the lungs is 

 known as consumption in human beings, but ofttimes tuberculous 

 germs are found in other organs, not only in the animal but in 

 mankind. It is quite probable that there is not a person present 

 but has tubercles somewhere. This has been the condition since 

 man came on earth; yet, within the last 50 years consumption has 

 decreased 50 per cent. You may go out and kill any cow you have, 

 and if you don't find tubercles in the body, if a good post-mortem 

 is held, you will have what is not often found, a perfectly healthy 

 . animal. 



Among the post-mortems made at the Bellevue Hospital, New 

 York, 92 per cent, were found tuberculous, and yet but few of 

 them died of consumption. I should not use the milk from 

 an unhealthy cow, nor from one which had been tested with 

 tuberculin, if I knew it. If one has a cow which shows disease, 

 ho should quarantine it from the herd, give it good care and feed 

 it properly. If the disease develops, and you are sure that tuber- 

 culosis is present, slaughter the animal, but don't use tuberculin 

 on a healthy animal. It cannot be depended upon, only in the 

 hands of an expert. Any foreign substance, as a rule, if injected 

 into an animal, will raise tlie temperature of the body. John 

 Gould of Ohio, recently said that lie witnessed the slaughter of 



