]^()g4 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Melun cheese, A. Vivien {Ind. Laii., 26 {1901), No. 6, pp. 4S-4S).—A description 

 of melun c-heene, together with methods of manufacture and analyses of the product. 



Cheese from goat milk, B. C. Buffum {Amer. Agr., G7 {1901), No. 12, p. 361).— 

 The present progress and the jxjssibilities of tlie manufacture of cheese from the milk 

 of goats. 



Making cheese from heated milk, J. Klein and A. Kirsten (J/i7c/t 7Ag., 30 

 {1901), No. 3, pp. 3'>-37).—ln the experiments of making cheese from milk heated 

 to 90° C. the curd and cheese secured was greater than witli milk not heated, owing 

 to a higher whev content. 



VETERINARY SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. 



Leucocytosis in experimental infections, E. Schlesigner {ZtscJtr. 

 IJijg. u. Infectioudranh., J6 {1900), j\^o. J,jjjk 3 49-J,.1 9).— This article 

 contains a detailed account of a large nuinber of experiments made by 

 the author for the purpose of determining the effect of hypodermic 

 inoculations of various pathogenic bacteria upon the number of the 

 leucocytes. Among the bacteria with which experiments were made 

 may be mentioned the organisms of pneiunonia, diphtheria, anthrax, 

 and tetanus. The total number of leucocytes and the relation of the 

 polynuclear cells to the lymphocytes was found to vary exceedingly in 

 rabbits. The number of white blood corpuscles varied from 1,000 to 

 2,000 per cubic centimeter in health. A reduction of the number of 

 leucocytes after hypodermic injections was noted in only one case, 

 after about 4 hours. It was found that the appearance, intensity, and 

 duration of hypoleucocytosis were variable, and that there was no rela- 

 tionship between this process and the quantity or virulence of the 

 bacterial culture. In the process of leucocytosis the lymphocytes were 

 most affected, while the polynuclear cells were only slightly decreased 

 in number. A hyperleucocytosis was often the only symptom upon 

 inoculation. In cases in which recovery took place the hyperleucocy- 

 tosis reached its maximum on the second or third day, and the number 

 of leucocytes decreased to the normal ver}^ rapidly. In fatal cases the 

 behavior of the white blood corpuscles was extremely variable. 



In inoculations of anthrax cultures, leucocytosis exhibited two 

 phases, one in which the number of white blood corpuscles was slightly 

 decreased in cases which finally recovered, and somewhat increased in 

 fatal cases, and the second phase in which there was a great increase 

 in the number of white blood corpuscles in fatal cases and a slight 

 increase in convalescent cases. In immunizing experiments with 

 anthrax it was found that after the first injection of anthrax vaccine a 

 rathei' niurk(Hl hyjMn-leucocytosis took place. 



The relative susceptibility of the domestic animals to the con- 

 tagia of human and bovine tuberculosis, K. K. Dinwiddie {Arkan- 

 sas Sta. Bui. 63, jjj). 37-65). — In this l>ull(^tin the author gives the 

 results of further experiments along the same line as those reported in 



