998 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



" The system is riot to be recommended, for dairies described as ' quick,' unless 

 efficient means for cooling the evening's milk exist. . . . 



"Though there are a number of different bacteria which produce lactic acid 

 when grown in milk, one form may always be found predominating in ripe milk, 

 sour whey, and good cheese. 



"For the manufacture of Cheddar cheese this bacterium, and this one only, is 

 required for the fermentation both of milk and curd, and also for the ripening 

 process." 



The author promises farther investigation on the subject. 



VETERINARY SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. 



Anthrax in the lower Mississippi Valley ( U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Bureau of Animal Industry Rpt. 1807, pp. 166-178). — In the spring and 

 summer of 1896 there was an exceptionally widespread epidemic of 

 anthrax in the northern part of Louisiana and adjacent regions. Sta- 

 tistics of the extent of the epidemic are quoted. The epidemic is dis- 

 cussed, and preventive and curative remedies employed and other 

 matters concerning the epidemic are discussed. Preventive measures 

 are regarded as more satisfactory than curative. 



"The preventive measures recommended were on two lines : 



"(1) The treatment of healthy living animals by a process of vaccination which, 



it was claimed, would render them immune to the disease, and the application to 



their bodies of a preparation to protect them from fiies. 



"(2) The application of such sanitary measures throughout the infected districts as 



would tend to destroy or neutralize, so far as possible, every condition favorable to 



the further increase and wider distribution of the microscopical plant life which is 



known to be the cause of this disease." 



Enzootic cerebrospinal meningitis in horses, and hog cholera 

 in Idaho, W. L. Williams ( U. S. Dept. Ayr., Bureau of Animal Indus- 

 try Rpt. 1897, pp. 179-187). — In 1896 many horses and pigs in Idaho 

 were affected with diseases which were in that region believed to be 

 due to a common cause. The author reports a number of cases studied 

 by him. The horses were affected with cerebro- spinal meningitis and 

 the hogs with hog cholera. 



" The common supposition that the two affections — of horses and hogs — are iden- 

 tical and due to a common cause, is sufficiently refuted by the ante-mortem anM post- 

 mortem examinations recorded herewith. It may be added, moreover, that no 

 clinical or historical evidence of identity could be established through other 

 obtainable facts." 



Contagious diseases in European countries ( U. S. Dept. Ayr., Bureau of Animal 

 Industry Rpt. 1897, pp. 69-8G). — Statistics are given of the contagious diseases of 

 animals in Great Britain, France, Norway, Belgium, Hungary, Denmark, and 

 Switzerland. 



Cattle tuberculosis, T. M. Legge and H. Sessions (London: 1S9S, pp 78). 



Investigations relative to sheep scab ( U. S. Dept. Ayr., Bureau of Animal Indus- 

 try Rpt. 1897, pp. 155-165). — The article contains the reports of four inspectors who 

 visited a number of sheep-feeding stations to find out the number of sheep fed, the 

 conditions of the feeding stations, water, dipping vats, and the sanitary conditions 

 of the sheds, with a view to determine whether the regulations relative to the trans- 

 portation of sheep affected with scab were enforced. 



