VETERINARY SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. 665 



cholera and swine plague. Experiments made during the past year 

 indicate that the treatment of these diseases may be successfal. 



"Tlie most efficacious foriimla wliicli has beeu tried is the tbllowino-: 



Pouiuls. 



Wood charcoal 1 



Snlpiiur 1 



Sodium clihnid 2 



Sodium bicarbonate 2 



Sodium hyposulphite 2 



Sodium sulpliato 1 



Autimouy sulphid 1 



"These iuorediciits should be completely pulverized aud thoroughly mixed. 



"The dose of lliis mixture is a large lablespoouful for each 200 lbs. weight of bogs 

 to be treated, aud it should be given only once a day. When hogs are attected with 

 these diseases they should not be fed on corn alone, but they should have at least 

 once a day soft feed, made by mixing bran and middlings, or middlings and corn 

 meal, or ground oats and corn, or crushed wheat with hot water, and then stirring 

 into this the proper quantity of the medicine. Hogs are fond of this mixture; it 

 increases their ap]ietite, and when they once taste of food with which it has been 

 mixed they will eat it, though nothing else would tempt tiieui. 



"Animals that are very sick and that will not com« to the feed should be drenched 

 with tlic medicine shaken up witli water, (jreat care should be exercised in drench- 

 ing hogs or they will be snIVocatcd. Do not turn the hog on its back to drench it, 

 but pull the cheek awaj^ from the teeth so as to form a pouch, into which the medi- 

 cine may bo slowly poured. It will How from the cheek into the mouth, and when 

 the hog tinds out what it is it will stop squealing and swallow." 



An inquiry into the alleged relation existing bet^veen the Bur- 

 rill disease of corn and the so-called cornstalk disease of cattle, 



V. A. iMouRE {A</l. ScL, 8 {1894), Xo. U-'J,p2). 368-385). — The author's 

 conclusions are as follows: 



"(1) Tiiere is no species of bacteria or other microorganism which can be demon- 

 strated by microscopic examination, or by ordinary bacteriological methods, con- 

 stantly present in the organs or blood of cattle dying late in the fall or early winter 

 of the so-called cornstalk dise:isc. 



"(2) The disease of corn described by Professor Burrill in the mature plant is 

 widely distributed. Its lesions are usually associated with a single species of bac- 

 teria (Bad lilts cloaca) . 



"(3) Full-grown cornstalks affected with the corn blight have no ill effect upon 

 cattle feeding exclusively upon them, neither do they produce a bacterial disease in 

 rabbits. 



"(4) The dwarfed cornstalks are harmless to rabbits. This form of the Burrill dis- 

 ease is presumably due to causes other than bacteria. 



"(5) Pure cultnn s of the bacillus found in tiie les'ons of the diseased corn, aud 

 supposed to be their cause, have no pathogenic etfect ou exjierimeutal animals, 

 excepting when excessively large quantities are injected into the circulation. 



"(6) The bacillus first described by Professor P.urrill, aud isolated by him from the 

 lesions in the diseased corn, belongs to the Bacillus cloacw group of bacteria, which 

 is widely distributed in nature. This group of organisms is not known to be pos- 

 sessed of any marked economic importance. 



"(7) There is no clinical or experimental evidence sufficient to show that the Bur- 

 rill disease of corn is responsible for auy disease in animals. There are, ou the con- 



