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was little or no fear of any bad results ensuing through these 

 misunderstandings of the law in relation to Texas fever, at 

 the same time, eternal vigilance is the price of good health 

 among our live stock, and the only way to ensure it is by 

 enforcing these laws and the necessary rules and regula- 

 tions for protecting it. 



Hemorrhagic Septicaemia. 



In connection with hemorrhagic septicemia, other septic 

 infections may be included, where the cause of the infection 

 is not altogether clear. Hemorrhagic septicaemia was first 

 described by Dr. M. H. Reynolds of Minnesota, tliree or 

 four years ago, and is a form of blood poisoning sometimes 

 found among cattle of various ages. What was formerly 

 called the "corn-stalk disease" in the west a number of 

 years ago is, in all probability, a variety of septicasmia. 



Several outbreaks of this disease, or sicknesses resembling 

 it, have occurred during the past year. In May the in- 

 spector of animals of Princeton reported a number of sick 

 cows kept upon a farm where the hay grown had been 

 expended during the winter, and the animals were being fed 

 upon baled clover hay from the west ; 3 died out of a herd 

 of 20. Dr. Frothingham made autopsies upon 2, and 

 secured cultures, but did not succeed in isolating the germ 

 of the disease, which is known as the bacillus bovi septicus; 

 but he believed the trouble to have been this disease, or 

 something similar. 



Last June, at one of the colonies for feeble-minded boys, 

 in Templeton, a number of fine heifer calves tliree or foiu' 

 months old, which were being raised, died with what was 

 evidently a septic infection of some kind. The Chief of the 

 Cattle Bureau visited the farm, with Dr. A. S. Cleaves of 

 Gardner, June 14 ; saw 2 calves that were already dead, 

 and in order to get fresh specimens killed a sick calf and 

 made an autopsy. The posterior pharyngeal lymphatic 

 glands and mediastinal lymphatic gland were enlarged, and 

 there was a gelatinous mass of yellowish material on a 

 portion of the mesentery. sui)porting the duodenum ; the 

 calf also had ijueumonia, but this may have been due to 



