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It must be borne in mind that this 

 percentage would have been much hi- 

 gher if the figures of the Statistics had 

 not been dimished by the clandestine Tu- 

 berculine proofs discovered in 1908, which 

 are positively known to have been 

 practised from 1905. 



The official inspections made in the 

 interior of the Republic, do not differ as 

 far as the immunity of our native herds 

 goes. The veterinary inspection of the 

 Concordia Slaughter House (Province of 

 Entre Rios) from 1901 to 1908 has vou- 

 ched for 12 cases of tuberculosis in ^1 .7 (9 

 animals slaughtered for market during 

 that period, and nearly the total ot the 

 12 tuberculose mentioned were the offs- 

 pring of repeated crossings. The Director 

 of Agriculture and Cattle of the Provin- 

 ce of* Entre Rios, Dr. Jose Maria Queve- 

 do, also considers the native cattle to be 

 practically i'vee from tuberculosis. In the 

 Salting Establishmen! Santa Elena of the 

 before named Province from April 1902 



