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Questions and answers on milk and milk testing, C. A. Publow and H. C. 

 Troy {\<ir York and IjiikIoii, I HO!), jiji. 97. pi. I). — These qnestions and answers 

 were prepared especially for short-course students in dairying and for those 

 who wish to prepare fov civil service examination for positions in dairy work. 



Questions and answers on butter making-, C. A. Puui.ow {'Sew York and 

 London, 1909, pp. 75). — ^fliese questions and answers are prepared especially for 

 fchort-course students and for i)ractical butter makers who wish to jiass a civil 

 service examination in butter maliing. 



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[Report of the bacteriologist on work with animal diseases], C. E. Mar- 

 shall {Michiiiun Kta. I'pl. 191)9, pp. ].il-lJf3, flgs. ,?).— The work with hog 

 cholera is reviewed, directions ^iven for the use of the immunizing; serum, now 

 heiiif; prepared, as previously nottnl (E. S. R.. 21, \^. 7'.)0). and the results ob- 

 tained by W. Giltner in 41) cases reported. 



A method for treating contagious abortion of cattle is outlined. The occur- 

 rence of a disease among cattle at Saline. Mich., infectious anemia or swamp 

 fever of horses In the-northern peninsula, and an undetermined disease of sheep 

 near White rigeou. Mich., are l)rielly reported upon by W. Uiltner. Two cases 

 of susjK'CtiMl oinphaloiihlebitis in lambs and a case of traumatic serous iiillamma- 

 tioii with sciiticcmia, in a Sliorllidi-n heifer, are also reported by Dr. (Jiltner. 



[Report of the veterinarian], E. P.arnktt {^oiith Carolina Xta. Rpt. 1909, 

 pp. .W-.'i'i). — In experiments made to detennine the physiological effects of cot- 

 ton-seed meal when fed in large quantities to dairy cattle "a number of abor- 

 tions took place besides a number of cases in which difficulty was experienced in 

 getting animals prejjnant. and it appeared there was a fairly constant relation 

 between these troubles and the amount of cottou-setnl meal fetl. deiiending also 

 upon the weight of the animal and the amount fed altout the period of concep- 

 tion. In some instances tliere has been noticed a peculiar form of mammitis. 

 notably in the case of a Jersey cow in which attacks had occurred during a 

 previous 2 years at intervals of from 2 weeks to 2 months and had become so 

 bad as to threaten to destroy the usefulness of this cow. During most of this 

 period G lbs. daily of cotton-seed meal had been fed." 



An experiment was also conducted to determine if cotton-seed meal could be 

 fed profitably to hogs in small amounts and to study the pathological changes 

 in organs from hogs killed by cotton-seed meal. The results indicate that it 

 can not be safely fed to hogs even in small amounts for an extended period, and 

 also point to the fact that it contains a specific toxin which affects first the 

 lymphatic glands di'alning the digestive tract, and secondly, the lungs. 



Work on the immunization of hogs against hog cholera in cooperation with 

 the Bureau of Animal Industry of this Department is reported. 



Experiments in continuation of the investigation of the stomach worm and 

 hook worm disease of young calves indicate that animals over 5 months old do 

 not very readily become infested with the ensheathed form of the larvse, though 

 this has been generally supposed to be the usual manner of infestation. 



Report of the state veterinarian for 1908, L. A. Klein (Ann. Rpt. Penn. 

 Dept. Agr., IJ, (lOOS). pp. 110-12S).—X brief report of the work of the year 

 including an account of the occurrence of stock diseases. 



Report of the colonial veterinary surgeon, Hongkong (Abs. in Jour. Trop. 

 Vet. Scl, 5 (1910), No. 1, pp. 209, 210).— The total number of cattle admitted to 

 the government depots for the year was 42,098, a decrease of 17,901. The total 

 number of pigs admitted to Kennedy Towu was 168,682 against 186,728 in 1907, 



