. BY C. J. POUND, F.K.M.S. XXXI 



animals were at once removed to another shed, while the infected 

 one was thoroughly washed with hot water. Following this, 

 every square inch of wood-work was sprayed with a solution of 

 corrosive sublimate (1 to 1000), and then 125 pounds of sulphur 

 was burned in the tightly-closed shed and cellar beneath. This 

 being done, all the wood- work of the mangers and in front of the 

 stanchions was torn out and replaced with new, after which the 

 double sterilization with corrosive sublimate and sulphur was 

 repeated, and the shed once again used for housing cattle. Six 

 (6) months later 18 grade Jersey cattle were purchased 

 from various herds and subjected to the tuberculin tests. 

 All of these animals were found to be free from tubercu- 

 losis, but it was definitely decided to test these and the remaining 

 healthy animals of the original herd every six months. It was 

 the aim of the station to make its former herd of moderate priced 

 animals produce from 850 to 400 pounds per cow per annum by 

 such methods as any dairyman might use. The Board of Control 

 of the station state it is again their intention to seek the same 

 end, and at the same time to keep the herd healthy by the free 

 application of the tuberculin test. Here is an object lesson and 

 an example which dairy farmers in Queensland should follow, 

 but I say unhesitatingly that the matter should be first initiated 

 and placed on a firm basis by our Agricultural College at Gatton. 

 The insidious nature of tuberculosis, Prof. Walley says, has 

 much to do with the comparative slowness with which public 

 attention has been directed to it, but the strides which it has 

 made and the hold it has gained on our stock renders it one of 

 the most important questions affecting the future well-being of the 

 bovine species. Looking at an individual tubercle bacillus, we 

 might be led to despise its comparative insignificance, and to 

 ignore its deadly meaning ; but when we know that thousands 

 upon thousands of these micro-organisms exist in the body of a 

 single animal, a truth is forced upon our minds, which we cannot 

 refuse to recognise — viz., that we have to deal with an insidious, 

 implacable, and deadly foe, and independently of its ultimate 

 fatality it may be said with safety that there is no 

 disease known to the pathologist which gives rise to so many 

 functional derangements. Contagious pleuro-pneumonia, foot and 

 mouth disease, rinderpest, and tick fever are each in their turns 



