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against tuberculosis is watched in this 

 country. In the Report referred to, a 

 great number of data of detail of un- 

 deniale interest to this Republic are 

 given, and such evidence proves con- 

 vincingly that the moment for alarm — 

 when the disease must be considered as 

 a great peril in progressive develop- 

 ment among our herds — has not come. 



The Argentine Republic in this res- 

 pect, as is shewn later, is one of the 

 healthiest countries. 



The extreme percentage of tuberculo- 

 sis among our dairy-cows is far inferior 

 tho the figures shown in the general 

 statistics of other countries, and the con- 

 dition and health of cattle in general 

 cannot be better, the proportion of tu- 

 berculosis being quite insignificant, as 

 the results of numerous recent investi- 

 gations carried out, testify. 



There is no space in this abridgment, 

 for a series of reports and details of 

 experiments from the works of European 



