484 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



proper (nuclear proliferatioji in tlie conjunctival parietes). In two cases 

 there was found a lesion of the A^enal and hepatic parenchyma, consist- 

 ing in a granular degeneration of the glandular elements. In the liver, 

 the lesion, as is usual, showed a predilection for the periphery of the 

 lobules in the vicinity of the vena portse ; tliere the cells were found in 

 a very advanced stage of granular degeneration. The epithelium of the 

 kidneys, more especially, showed the peculiar tumeiied troubled appear- 

 ance already indicated, though tjie granular condition was less marked. 

 The muscular alterations consisted in the presence of numerous elongated 

 bodies, very abundaut in the right side of the heart, and incontestably 

 situated in the substance of the muscular fiber. These bodies are blunt 

 at one end, pointed at the other, and are composed of a regular mass of 

 cylindrical cells lying together in such a manner that at the pointed 

 extremity there is oidy a single cell, at the obtuse end two cells, and in 

 the other part sometimes two, sometimes three cells, clustered on a 

 given segment. It is surmised that these minute bodies are entozoa in 

 their primary stage of development. 



ISIBASURES FOR THE PREVENTION AND EXTINCTION OF RINDERPEST. 



There being no remedy known for this disease, human intervention 

 in dealing wdth it has thus far been necessarily restricted to measures 

 for its prevention and extinction. Most European governments have 

 passed laws and ])rescribed regulations for the pui^pose of protecting 

 their repective countries from the invasions of the plague, and fc ' its 

 speedy extirpation on the occurrence of an outbreak. Of all these 

 enactments the regulations now in force in the German Empire are con- 

 sidered as the most comi^lete embodiment of the results of experience 

 and scientific investigation in regard to this subject. The full text of 

 this law wiU be found in Special Eeport ]N"o. 22, recently issued by this 

 Department. 



EXPERIMENTS Yv^ITH DEPARTMENT SEEDS. 



A condensed statement of the results of experiments with seeds dis- 

 tributed by this department is given below : 



WHEAT. 



Arlcansas. — Marion County : Victor — "Extra. Every farmer in this 

 section wants the Victor." Yellow Missouri, several good reports. Pu- 

 laski County: "Some of the heads 10 inches long and well filled; 

 delighted with this wheat." Drew and Stone Counties : " Entirely free 

 from rust," and "quality superior." 



California.-— liOB Angeles County : Sherman — " Fifty bushels per acre ; 

 first-rate; on land peculiarly liable to rust it stood the test perfectly." 

 In Inyo, Lake, Lassen, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Sonoma, and 

 Humboldt Counties, Blold's White Winter yielded from 23 to 54 bushels 

 per acre ; quality excellent. Less favorable reports from other counties 

 are attributed mainly to causes having no ]iarticular reference to this 

 variety of wheat, such as late sotcing, mice, birds. &c. There are no in- 

 dications of a liability to rust. Eetuins from California, Oregon, and 

 Washington Territory lead to the conclusion that the "Mold Wheats" 

 mQ be of great value throughout the wheat-growing regions of the Pa- 

 cific slope. 



