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•jected with bouillon suspension of feces, and with a calf that sucked one of the 

 cows. Upon slaughtering the cows only a few slight calcified and encapsulated 

 lesions of the bronchial lymph glands and lungs were found in one; while in the 

 other the right bronchial glands were greatly enlarged, the tubercular mass 

 showed calcareous degeneration, and the right cephalic lobe of the lungs con- 

 tained a large tubercular mass undergoing liquefaction, 



A tabular reiwrt is given of herds treated with hog-cholera serum during the 

 years 1908 to 11)10. Studies made by Giltner of the cellular elements of the 

 blood of hyperinnnune hogs show that " the successive weekly bleedings lessen 

 the number of erythrocytes in proportion as the number of bleedings increases. 

 In most cases the number of leucocytes is decreased. The decrease in number 

 of leucocytes is due to a constant decrease in large mononuclears, and a nearly 

 constant decrease in lymphocytes and eosinophiles while this disease is only 

 partially offset by a nearly constant increase in polynuclears and mast cells. 

 There may be a f-light temporary increase in the number of erythrocytes per 

 cubic centimeter immediately after bleeding. There is a tendency for both the 

 actual numbers and the pex'contages of lymphocytes to decrease and of poly- 

 nuclears to increase immediately after bleeding. Changes in the staining prop- 

 erties of the erythrocytes may result from repeated bleedings of serum hogs. 

 The changes noted in this connection are in harmony with what has been 

 observed by others in studying the effects of hemorrhage on the cellular elements 

 of the blood." 



Tests made with lactic-acid cultures for irrigation in contagious abortion and 

 other diseases in an attempt to find a substitute for the ordinary coal tar and 

 chemical antiseptics are briefly described. Investigations made of an outbreak 

 of disease among sheep in Kent (^ounty resulted in the discovery of the stoihach 

 worm (Hccmonchus contortus) to be the cause. Small numbers of the whip- 

 worm {Trichocephalus uffinis) were found in the cecum and small nodules due 

 to CEsophagostoma columhianum in the intestinal walls. In 1 lamb examined 

 many of the bronchioles in the dorsal i)ortion of both principal lobes of the 

 lungs were filled with lungworms (t^inrnffyhis filaria). 'Sotes nve given on a 

 disease of cattle near Kinde, Huron County, which was not considered to be of 

 an infectious or parasitic nature, several cases of hemoglobinuria in horses near 

 Laingsburg, and a wasting disease of horses at Imlay City. 



Eighth annual report of the state board of live stock commissioners of 

 Ohio, 1908-9, P. Fischer et al. (Ann. Rpt. Ohio Bd. Agr., 64 {1909), pp.. 659- 

 698, figs. 19). — The occurrence during the year of stock diseases is briefly 

 reported upon. 



Annual report of the Bengal Veterinary College and of the Civil Veteri- 

 nary Department, Bengal, for the year 1909-10 (Ann. Rpt. Bengal Vet. Col. 

 and Civ. Vet. Dept., 1909-10, pp. 1-7 + 1 -12 + V II I +2). —The annual report of 

 the Bengal Veterinai-y College, by F. Raymond (pp. 1-7) includes accounts of 

 the occurrence of epizootic diseases in Calcutta and vicinity, and of the work 

 of the research laboratory. The report of the Civil Veterinary Department is 

 by D. Quinlan (pp. 1-12). 



In the reports on contagious disease it is stated that the total mortality 

 among equines and bovines was 386 and 17.645 respectively, against 301 and 

 16,456 the previous year. Glanders was responsible for the death of 160 equines. 

 Tabulated data show rinderpest to have killed 8,869, foot-and-mouth disease 

 2,374,hemorrhagic septicemia 3,130, black quarter 737, and anthrax 812, bovines. 

 The report includes an account of preventive inoculations against rinderpest, 

 only 93 of 12,549 animals having died after inoculation. 



Investigations in regard to putrefaction products which are bactericidal 

 to the anthrax bacillus, K. Stein (Arch. Wiss. u. Prakt, Tierheilk., 36 (1910)^ 



