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•' above all the most selected and pure 



l - bred\'m these last, the proportion of tu- 

 11 berculous subjects is as high as 50 oto 

 11 and more. The old breeds are almost 

 " free from the disease. The celebrated 

 " breeds of Alderney Shorthorn, Ayr, are 

 " decimated with the infection, the most 

 " valued familys of the Durhams, the 

 " Dusses, for example, are on the point 

 " of disappearing altogether. Of 15.392 

 " animals subjected to"Tuberculine" from 

 " 1897 to 1899, 26 oto shewed reaction. 



Wilson on his part calculates that half 

 the bovines of Great Britain are affected 

 with tuberculosis. 



Our Quarantine Lazaretto confirms 

 these assertions to the letter. In 1906. 

 1.433 bulls and 137 cows were imported 

 from England, the mean average of tu- 

 berculosis was 9.03 and 65.69 o[0 res- 

 pectively. In 1907 and 1908 the medium 

 of tuberculous bulls was 10 23 and 

 11.51 ojo; that of cows, for the same pe- 

 riod 39.0 2 and 9.85 0[0 respectively. 



