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ance. Delegates may be appointed by governors, mayors, and all 

 agricultural bodies and commercial organizations, but every 

 farmer is invited without the formality of credentials, and all 

 discussions will be open to farmers. Address all communications 

 to John T. Burns, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, Lethbridge, 

 Alberta, Canada. 



CONTAGIOUS ABORTION AND MILK. 



Circular No. 198 of the Bureau of Animal Industry, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, reports the discovery that 

 the bacterium of contagious abortion of cattle, occurs in milk. 

 The organism was found in 8 samples of market milk among 77 

 samples tested (over 11 per cent.), and in the milk distributed ])y 

 6 among 31 dairies (over 19 per cent.). The discovery was 

 made as the result of investigations conducted by Dr. John R. 

 Mohler, chief of the Pathological Division. When milk contain- 

 ing the organisms was injected into guinea pigs, it produced 

 lesions resembling closely those of tuberculosis. The effect on 

 human beings is not known, but the circular states that the 

 phenomenon is ominously serious to public health, and that "the 

 bacillus forms another link in the long chain of facts that point 

 unmistakably to the proper pasteurization of all milk before 't is 

 used as food as a measure essentially necessary for the protection 

 of the public health." 



APPRECIATION FROM CALIFORNIA. 



San Francisco, April 18, 1912. 



Daniel Logan, Editor The Forester, P. O. Box 366, Honolulu, 



T. H. 



Dear Sir: — Referring to your issue of March, Vol. IX, No. 3, 

 I beg leave to express my hearty appreciation of the value of the 

 paper by Ralph S. Hosmer on the proposed reclamation of the 

 Island of Kahoolawe. It is such painstaking and meritorious 

 work now being carried on by so many in the jniblic service, that 

 rolls up such a grand total of accomplishment for good through- 

 out our entire country. 



Your ])ublication is received regularly by the Sierra Cluh, and 

 I assure you is appreciated, as it is the exponent for the Ha- 

 waiian Islands in those achievements for which the Sierra Club, 

 at least in certain directions, carries on its activities. You have 

 our hearty best wishes for every good achievement in the fuld 

 of endeavor, which you ])articularly stand for. 



\'ery truly yours. 



E. T. F.VR.SONS, 



Mcnihcr I'.ditorial I'.oard of Sierra Club I'ulletin. 



