84 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOED. 



rot, a bacillus corresponding morphologically to BaciNus necrophorus being dis- 

 coveretl. Clinical observations and the results of post-mortem and bacteriolog- 

 ical examinations of several cases thought to be hog cholera, and an outbreak 

 of anemia in horses in Elko County previously noted (E. S. R., 21, p. 584), are 

 also reported upon. 



Infectious anemia, mycotic lymphangitis, and chronic bacterial dysentery, 

 J. K. MoHLER {U. S. Dcijt. Agr., Bur. Aniin. Indus. Rpt. 190S, pp. 223-236. figs. 

 (j)_ — This article has been substantially noted from another source (E. S. R., 

 20. p. 7S5). 



The 1908 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United States, A. D. 

 Melvin (U. S. Dcpt. Agr., Bur. Anhii. Indus. Rpt. 1908. pp. 379-392, figs. 8).— 

 This is an account of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in this country, 

 which was first discovered near Danville, Pa., early in November, 1908, and of 

 the methods and expense of eradication. 



Diseased animals were found on 157 premises, of which 101 were in 15 

 counties of Pennsylvania, 45 in 5 counties in New York, 9 in 2 counties in 

 Michigan, and 2 in 1 county in Maryland. In the work of eradication, 2,025 

 cattle valued at $76,785.39, 1,329 hogs valued at $11,470.79. 275 sheep valued 

 at $1,759, and 7 goats valued at $18, were slaughtered. The total expenditure 

 by this Department was $299,112.10, and about $113,000 was expended by the 

 four affected States in their part of the work. 



As described in a circular previously noted (E. S. R., 21, p. 383) the infection 

 was brought into this country in smallpox vaccine. 



The fixation of the complement in glanders, Miessner and Trapp {Centbl. 

 Bakt. [etc.], 1. AM., Orig., 52 {1909), No. 1, pp. 115-146, charts 5; al)S. in Jour. 

 Roy. Micros. Hoc. [London'], 1910, No. I, p. 87). — The authors describe the 

 complement fixation methods, the antigen, the serum, the amboceptor, the 

 complement, and the blood corpuscles, and give details with respect to malleiu 

 experiments. 



Complement fixation was positive in 95.7 per cent of glandered. and in 1.27 

 per cent of normal, horses. A suitable antigen was found in an aqueous extract 

 of glanders bacilli made from an agar culture, diluted from 250 to 1,000 times 

 with phenol saline. The antigens were very sensitive to daylight, but boi*e 

 boiling and minus temperatures of from 10 to 15° C. With aqueous extracts 

 of organs of glandered and normal horses and guinea pigs, there was no com- 

 plement fixation with the serum of glandered horses. Similar results were 

 obtained when alcoholic extracts were used, and also with oleate of sodium, 

 oleic acid, and lecithin. 



The diagnosis of rabies in inoculated animals, J. W. Cornwall and M. 

 Kesava Pai (Jour. Trap. Vet. Sci., 5 (1910), No. 1, pp. lJi9-155, charts ;2).— 

 This account is taken from Bulletin 1 of the Pasteur Institute of southern 

 India. 



The measure of immunity against rabies in animals, J. W. Cornwall and 

 M. Kesava I'ai {Jour. Trop. Vet. Sci., 5 (1910), No. 1. pp. 156-161).— Au ac- 

 count also taken from Bulletin 1 of the Pasteur Institute of southern India. 



Negri bodies, J. W. Cornwall and M. Kesava Pai (Jour. Trop. Vet. 8ci., 5 

 (1910), No. 1, pp. 162-180).— StmVies from the Pasteur Institute of southern 

 India. 



The transmission of avian tuberculosis to mammals, J. R. Mohler and 

 H. J. Washburn (U. &. Dept. Agr., Bur. Anim. Indus. Rpt. 1908, [>p. 165-176).— 

 An outbreak of tuberculosis among fowls on a large ranch in Oregon that 

 seemed to extend to the swine of the same farm through feeding the hogs 

 upon the carcasses of fowls that succumbed to the disease, led to the inaugura- 



