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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Leipzig Statistics. 

 [Figures mean per cents, of those slaughtered.] 



At the slaughter houses in Schiverin the following statistics are 

 given as infected : — 



Finally, Bollinger gives the figures presented by Bang to the 

 Congress at Budapest, concerning the spread of tuberculosis 

 in Denmark : — 



On the 327 farms 8,401 animals were subjected to the tuberculin 

 test, and 3,362 reacted, or 40 per cent. At a farm in Seeland, of 

 the 208 animals tested, 80 per cent, of all the cows and 40 per cent, 

 of the oxen and calves reacted. The cows that reacted were sepa- 

 rated from the healthy ones, and as they calved the calves were 

 taken and fed on sterilized milk. After several weeks those calves 

 that were separated when injected with tuberculin showed no reac- 

 tion, while ten per cent, of calves not separated showed the reaction 

 during the first year of life. 



Numerous other statistics might be cited to show the preva- 

 lence of this disease in different portions of the world, but a 

 sufficient number are here emoted to show that it has a strong 



