1184 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Cuti-reaction to tuberculin in experiments with calves and dogs, F. Ar- 

 LOiNG (Compt. Raul. buc. Biol. [Paris]. 63 (1907), No. 3^, pp. J,99-501).— In 

 experiments with calves and dogs l^nown to be tuberculous, the cuti-reaction 

 failed to occur in a lai-ge percentage of cases and this method is, therefore, 

 considered unreliable. 



Memorandum on inquiries made in 1905-6 with respect to -pig tuberculosis, 

 and administration in London in regard to meat of tuberculous pigs, G. S. 

 Buchanan (Ann. Rpt. Local Govt. Bd. [(Jt. Brit.], 35 (1905-6), pp. 21-2.^).— 

 According to the author, the conditions of the meat trade at the Smithfield 

 central meat market are such that systematic examination of all hog carcasses 

 is Impossible. It is admitted, therefore, that tuberculosis pork may be sold in 

 this market without the fact being ascertained by meat inspectors. The chief 

 defect of the present system of inspection consists in the fact that inspection is 

 made on the dressed carcass and not upon the whole animal at the time of 

 slaughtering. The present requirements of the Royal Commission regarding 

 tuberculosis in pork are that all carcasses in which the disease is recognized 

 shall be condemned. 



Echinococcosis in the domesticated animals, M. A. Martin (Jour. Compar. 

 Path, and Thcr., 20 (1907), No. 4, pp. 305-32-'/). — The literature relating to 

 echinococcosis in domestic animals is quite extensive. In the present article 

 the author has undertaken a general review of the subject with especial refer- 

 ence to recent additions to our knowledge of the disease. 



Foot-and-mouth disease, R. Marra (Rev. Gen. Med. Vet., 11 (1908), No. 122, 

 pp. Ji9-57). — The means by which foot-and-mouth disease is carried from one 

 animal to another are discussed in some detail. Although it is commonly stated 

 that recovery from an attack of foot-and-mouth disease confers an immunity 

 which exists for 4 to 8 months, in the author's experience, on the other hand, 

 no such immunity seemed to arise. Animals which had just recovered from 

 foot-and-mouth disease were more susceptible than those which had never been 

 affected. 



A form of enzootic mammitis in cows, P. Stazzi (Clin. Vet. [Milan], Sez. 

 iici., 30 (1907), No. 5, pp. 191-208, pi. 1). — Detailed clinical notes are given on 

 the symptoms and course of a form of mammitis in cows. The author states 

 that in his experience mammitis caused by streptococcus is of a chronic, catar- 

 rhal, or puruleiit form, and that caused by staphylococcus or micrococcus is 

 usually catarrhal but may become acute and parenchymatous. The ordinary 

 epizootic form of mammitis is due to Bacillus mastiditis contagiosce. 



Milk fever in cows, 11. Thompson (Vet. Rec, 20 (1907), No. 1009, pp. 329- 

 331). — Attention is called to an article published by the author in 1877 in which 

 it was maintained that the cause of milk fever was to be sought in some dis- 

 turbance of the milk secretion in the udder. The author is of the opinion that 

 by means of bandages properly applied to the udder a pressure might be brought 

 about which would give the same results as distention with air or liquid. 



Verminous bronchitis in cattle and means of combating it, A. Scheibel 

 (Deiit. Ticrdrztl. Wehnschr., 15 (1907), No. .//8. pp. 673-677, fig. i).— The symp- 

 toms and pathological anatomy of verminous bronchitis are described in detail 

 with particular reference to the differential diagnosis between this disease and 

 tuberculosis. The best results in the treatment of the disease have been 

 obtained from applying in the trachea a spray containing creosote, alcohol, and 

 water. 



Parasites of cattle and sheep, J. Penberthy (Jour. Roy. Agr. Soc. England, 

 n7 (1906), pp. 6Jt-97, figs. If/). — Economic and biological notes are given on 

 warble flies, cattle lice, mange mites, ticks, ringworm fungus, stomach worms, 

 lungworms, flukes, tapeworms, sheep tick, sheep botfly, parasite bronchitis, etc. 



