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less serious nature have been reported from practically every 

 island of the group. 



While the post-mortem lesions do not show the same degree of 

 severity as those in cattle they are, nevertheless, characteristic. 

 Hemorrhages throughout the body are the rule, with the lungs 

 principally affected in the uncomplicated type of the disease. 



Straight swine plague, however, is rarely observed, the disease 

 being complicated early in its course by secondary infections caus- 

 ing a necrotic enteritis. This double infection, known as Mixed 

 Infection is the principal cause of loss among swine in this Terri- 

 tory. The same warnings to owners may apply in this disease as 

 in hemorrhagic septicemia of cattle. 



Wt have on hand at present an adequate supply of biologies 

 to combat outbreaks of this disease. 



Fowl Cholera. 



Only one outbreak of hemorrhagic septicemia of poultry, or 

 fowl cholera, as it is generally called, has come to notice but the 

 virulence of the disease is amply demonstrated in that it exterm- 

 inated 200 chickens in about 48 hours. 



FORMOSAN TERMITES AND METHODS OF 

 PREVENTING THEIR DAMAGE. 



(Concluded*) 



By Masamitsu Oshima 



TERMITE-PROOF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION 



Serious damage to the Japanese buildings in Formosa is due 

 to the Japanese timbers that are used as the principal building 

 materials ; namely, pine and cryptomeria. They are most liable 

 to damage, because they contam a large amount of cellulose in 

 comparison with other timbers. 



When Japan occupied Formosa, Japanese architects had had 

 no experience in regard to methods of preventing the damage 

 caused by termites. Therefore, they erected buildings there just 

 as in the mother country, paying no attention to the termite. 

 This is another reason for the serious damage, for Japanese 

 buildings are not suited to the Tropics. They rather attract the 

 termite, since the foundation timbers are laid in contact with the 

 ground. 



From the point of view of economy, it is impossible to elim- 

 inate such nonresistant timbers from Japanese buildings. 

 Therefore, a discovery of a new method of building construction, 

 by which the attack of the termite can be absolutely prevented, 

 becomes an important problem. 



As a result of bitter experience during the last twenty years, 



*Phil. Jour. Science XV, 4. 



