IOC) EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



donated by private parties, and were for the (inest fruit (won by 

 Idaho), the best disphiy of l)arley (won by a Montana malting- com- 

 pany), the finest hops (won by North Yakima, Wash.), and the best 

 sugar-beet exhibit (won by a farmer of Garland, Utah). In addition, 

 the Utah Station had an interesting exhibit iUnstrating some very 

 striking results of irrigation expei'iments on wheat, rye, and sugar 

 beets, and the ^^'yoraing Station made a tine showing of barley-. 



The meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Association at 

 Ottawa developed a unanimity of opinion regarding the desirability of 

 fiu-ther improving veterinary instruction at some of the less thorough 

 institutions. This is made necessary by the rapid progress in veteri- 

 nary medicine, as a result of the extensive scientific investigation 

 which is being carried on throughout the world, and by the increased 

 demands upon veterinarians in public positions and in private prac- 

 tice for thorough equipment and preparation in their profession. A 

 proposition for sj^stematic supervision of veterinar}' instruction 

 throughout the United States and Canada b}" the association, with a 

 view to improving the standard of such instruction, met with verj'^ 

 general approval. 



Perhaps the most important scientific event of the meeting was the 

 discussion on the subject of tuberculosis. On the one hand, it was 

 shown conclusively that human and bovine tuberculosis ma}' be inter- 

 transmissible, and in view of the evidence presented this conclusion 

 was generalh' accepted by the members of the association. On the 

 other hand, the successful experiments of Hon. W. C. Edwards, of 

 Rockland, Ontario, in the application of the Bang method, the results 

 of which were inspected by the members of the association, demon- 

 strated the practicability of this method on a large scale and showed 

 that it is comparatively^ easy for the stock raiser to eradicate tubercu- 

 losis from a herd without sacrificing valuable animals. 



It is interesting to note that some of the results relative to tuber- 

 culosis announced at this meeting received strong corroboration at the 

 International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, held at Brus- 

 sels September 2-8. This congress was largely attended \)y phy- 

 sicians and veterinarians from European countries and America. 



The announcement of the results arrived at by the German Imperial 

 commission precipitated a long and rather heated discussion relative 

 to the duality of tuberculosis, during which the adherents of the Koch 

 theory were compelled to admit the possibilit}" of transmitting the 

 disease between man and animals. The sense of the congress was 

 expressed in a resolution recognizing the possibility of the intertrans- 

 mission of tuberculosis, and urging that the usual sanitary precautions 

 for the prevention of such intertransmission should be continued in 

 force without abatement. 



