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fected individuals found occasionally in importations the State is considered 

 clean. 



Losses from i)lant poisoning include 42 bead of 4-year-old steers in eastern 

 Converse County, evidently from a form of lupine poisoning. Twenty head of 

 liorses died from the effects of loco poisoning near Casper and a number of 

 sheep in Bighorn County. Similar conditions among cattle were met with else- 

 where in the State. 



Annual report on the civil veterinary department, United Provinces, for 

 the year ending- March 31, 1909, E. W. Oliver (Aiui.. Rpt. Civ. Vet. Dcpt. 

 United Prov., 1909, pp. 21). — This report discusses veterinary instruction, treat- 

 ment of disease, breeding operations, etc. 



Equine contagious diseases bi'iefly mentioned are glanders, surra, dourine, 

 and tetanus. Rinderpest was more prevalent, 6,662 deaths being reported 

 against 7,S54 during the previous year. Only 626 deaths due to hemorrhagic 

 septicemia were reported against 1,799 the previous year. Of black quarter 

 143 cases occurred, of which 62 proved fatal, against 200 deaths the previous 

 year. Anthrax destroyed 1.015 cattle as compared with 685 in 1907-8. Foot- 

 and-mouth disease was very widespread and the mortality increased from 827 

 to 1.957. The number of deaths among cattle from other contagious diseases 

 reported was 118. 



Protective inoculations chiefly against rinderpest were carried out on a large 

 scale, and whenever possible this method of dealing with disease is now adopted. 

 Operations of this nature were undertaken in 1,084 outbreaks against 948 in 

 the previous year and 90,874 animals have been inoculated. 



Report of the principal veterinary surgeon and bacteriologist, S. Dodd 

 (Ann. Rpt. Dcpt. Agr. and Btoclc [Queensland], 190S-9, pp. 81-105).— In this 

 report particular attention is given to the occurrence of and work with Texas 

 fever, osteomalacia of cattle, or soft bone disease, and si)irochetosis of fowls. 



Texas fever is said to have been very prevalent in certain districts, and 

 31,865 head of cattle were inoculated. Osteomalacia which occurs among cattle, 

 chiefly on some of the coastal lands, was investigated. The condition, one 

 mainly affecting the bones of cattle, is most common in cows and heifers, 

 chiefly dairy stock and especially heavy milkers. The symptoms, post-mortem 

 appearances, and analyses made of bones from both normal and affected ani- 

 mals, are reported, as are also analyses of soils. As the result of investigations 

 the author has determined that the disease of fowls in Kuckhampton which has 

 caused a mortality of from 60 to 80 per cent is spirochetosis. 



Of 171,245 head of cattle killed at meat works under supervision during 

 1908-9, a total of about 0.7 per cent were totally or partially condemned for 

 tuberculosis. Of 1.170 milch cows inspected, 11 were reported as being affected 

 with tuberculosis and 8 with actinomycosis. Other diseases reported upon are 

 infectious ophthalmia, contagious mammitis. contagious abortion, blackleg, 

 strongylosis in sheep and calves, Birdsville horse disease, equine influenza, 

 Gilbert River horse disease, hog cholera, sarcosporidiosis, and others. 



Alleged poisoning' by soy-bean meal (Mark Lane Express, 103 (1910), No. 

 J,090, pp. 169, 111; Vet. Rec, 22 (1910), No. 1121, pp. 545-5//9).— Twenty-five out 

 of 52 cows near Edinburgh, Scotland, which had been fed 1 lb. of soy-bean meal 

 per day (distributed over 2 feeds) are reported to have died from poisoning 

 thought to have been due to hydrocyanic acid from the meal. A suit against 

 the firm from whom the meal was purchased, is under way. 



Grain itch (Acaro-dermatitis urticarioides): A study of a new disease in 

 this country, J. F. Schamberg (Jour. Cutaneous Diseases, 2S (1910), No. 329, 

 pp. 61-89, j)ls. 1). — A detailed account is given of an eruptive disorder new to 



