VETERINARY MEDICINE. 579 



the fall and winter 6 months. Au account is presented of the methods of eradi- 

 cating ticks by the use of dips and the adoption of feed lot or pasture rotation 

 systems. Several examples of rotations are presented. Directions are also 

 given for the preparation of vats for dipping cattle and for the planting of 

 Bermuda and other grasses in the improvement of pastures. 



A copy is given of a new law establishing a State live stock sanitary board 

 and the ofHce of State veterinarian. The law provides that the professor of 

 veterinary sciertce at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute shall serve as State 

 veterinarian. The live stock sanitary board is empowered to pass rules and 

 regulations regarding the control of infectious diseases and the carriers of these 

 diseases within the limits of the State. 



Johne's disease, R. Paine {Affr. Jour. Cape Good Hope, 31 (1907), No. 2, 

 pp. 160-162). — Chronic bacterial enteritis has been observed among cattle in 

 Cape Colony but the disease is not widely distributed. The symptoms and pa- 

 thology are described. Curative treatment is of little or no avail, but the 

 spread of the disease may be largely checked by the observance of antiseptic 

 precautions. 



Cowpox vaccination as a protection against foot-and-mouth disease, T. 

 Seihert (Wchnschr. Tierheilk. u. riehzucht, 51 (1907), No. S9, pp. 761-763).— 

 Preliminary experiments indicate that cowpox vaccine may be used to immunize 

 cattle against foot-and-mouth disease. The author believes that the disease can 

 be cured by using large quantities of the vaccine subcutaueously or intra- 

 venously. 



False foot-and-mouth, disease, L. Kantorowicz (Ztschr. Infektionskrank. 

 u. Hyg. Haustiere, 2 (1907), No. 6, pp. 550-555). — The author reports the oc- 

 currence in cattle of stomatitis closely resembling foot-and-mouth disease and 

 affecting the lips, udder, and hoofs. It is possible, however, to differentiate with 

 cei'taiuty between these diseases by considering all of the circumstances sur- 

 rounding a given outbreak. 



Piroplasmosis of cattle in Tashkend and Russian Turkestan, I. Kowa- 

 LEWSKY (Jour. M^d. Vet. et ZootccJi., 58 (1907), June, pp. 330-3Jf5). — For many 

 years cattle in the neigliborhood of Tashkend have been affected with a piroplas- 

 mosis which was carefully studied by the author. Detailed clinical notes are 

 given on a number of typical and atypical cases of this disease. It is appar- 

 ently caused by a form or variety of Piroplasiua higcminum. In certain cases 

 lesions appear in the lips of affected animals, but this symptom was not con- 

 stantly oliserved. 



Experiments with serum against East coast fever, A. Theileb (Jour. Trop. 

 Vet. Sci., 2 (1907), No. 3, pp. 21,9-260) .—Healthy animals were repeatedly in- 

 oculated with large doses of virulent blood for the purpose of obtaining a cyto- 

 lyctic serum. Occasionally this serum develops hemolytic properties. In the 

 course of the experiments it was found that if immune animals be fortified with 

 subcutaneous or intrajugular in.iections of defibrinated blood a serum is ob- 

 tained which is hemolytic for cattle affected with East coast fever and destroys 

 Piroplastna parvum. If immune cattle are similarly treated with blood from 

 cases of East coast fever a serum is obtained which is neither hemolytic, micro- 

 bicide, nor prophylactic. 



It appears from these experiments that by transfusing large quantities of 

 blood from a sick to an immune animal virus may be accumulated which may 

 be used in fortifying cattle from which rinderpest serum is to be secured. 



Preliminary report on the so-called stiff sickness or 3-day sickness of 

 cattle in Rhodesia, L. E. W. Bevan (Jour. Vompar. I'atli. and TJicr., 20 (1907), 

 No. 2, pp. 10'i-113, fiy.s. 2, charts //). — The symptoms of this disease include 



