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Jive-stock laws of Missouri are doI fundamentally defective, bu1 are well suited to 

 control the more importanl animal plagues if conscientiously carried out. Attention 

 [g called to the desirability of cooperation between farmers and official veterinarians 

 in the control of animal diseases. 



The importance of milk and meat inspection to the public health. T. I 

 Sullivan (Rpt. Bur. Agr., Labor and Indus. Mont., 9 (1904), pp- 966-272). Atten- 

 tion is called to the danger inherenl in pathological meat and milk as agencies in 

 the transmission of disease. The law regarding meat and milk inspection in Mon- 

 tana is regarded as satisfactory and as combining all necessary features foran effective 

 regulation of traffic in meat and milk. 



Hygiene of domestic animals, X. 8. Mayo i Estac. Cent. Agron. Cuba Circ. 15, 

 pp. $). — Directions are given for the disinfection of Btables and careful inspection of 

 food products, water, and salt for the purpose of preserving the health of domestic 

 animals ami preventing the introduction of diseases. 



Stall disinfection by means of formaldehyde and steam produced by Lind- 

 ner's apparatus, Perkuhn (Monatsh. Prakt. Tierheilk., 16 (1905), No. 1 8, pp. 

 814, figs. 5) . — The apparatus is described in detail and a report is made on disin- 

 fection experiments carried out by the author in attempts to destroy anthrax bacilli, 

 anthrax spores, and the bacilli of hog cholera, swine plague, swine erysipelas, and 

 glanders. 



The results obtained in these experiments indicate that formaldehyde may be used 

 successfully in disinfecting the substances and objects which lie in the open. Bac- 

 teria which may he under straw, tilth, orin cracks, however, are not much influenced, 

 since the formaldehyde penetrates rather slowly. In order that the method may be 

 practically efficient, therefore, it is recommended that straw and filth be carefully 

 removed from the stalls to be disinfected and that the temperature during the 

 process of disinfection be maintained at about 10° C. 



Report of the veterinary bacteriologist, A. Theileb < Transvaal Dept. Agr. Ann. 

 Rpt. 1904, ]>/>. 79-248). — The author presents a detailed account of the distribution of 

 rinderpest serum in various part- of Transvaal, as well as on the distribution of 

 other serums, especially that of pleuro-pneumonia, and the effectiveness of these 

 materials. 



A careful study was made of the anatomy and life history of the blood parasite of 

 Texas fever. When susceptible animals are inoculated with blood from an animal 

 immune to Texas fever, parasites closely resembling those of African coasl fever 

 appear in the blood, either with tin- second reaction or shortly afterward. African 

 COasI fever has been definitely shown to he entirely distinct from Texas fever. 

 Numerous experiments in the transmission of African coast fever by means of tick- 

 have demonstrated that Rhipicephalus appendiculatus is chiefly concerned in this 

 process. On account of the long period during which an infection persists in a given 

 area it is considered impossible to eradicate the disease by means <>f inoculation. 



Notes are also given on piroplasmosis of the horse, mule, donkey, and dog 

 was found possible to immunize dogs against the disease by the use of blood from a 



recovered dog. The author also discusses heart water in cattle, sheep, and goats. 



This disease appear.- to he transmissible from sheep and i_ r oat< to cattle, and \ ice versa. 

 ( Ibservations are also made on horse sickness, together with notes on the destruction 

 of the red blood corpuscles in this disease. 



Report on work of veterinary department, S. Stockm w I Transvaal I>> i>t. Agr. 

 Aim. Rpt. 1904, />/>• 87-76, ph. 8).— The condition of live stock sanitary laws is dis- 

 cussed and the policy of the veterinary department is outlined as including the pur- 

 pose of compelling owners of stock to report dangerous diseases, to inspect farms. 

 quarantine infected farms, and regulate the movement of animals during outbreaks 

 of disease, 



