BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS I^I 



should be freely rinsed with water to remove the corrosive 

 sublimate. It should not be mixed or used in metallic vessels. 

 It may be applied with a broom, swab, or brush. Another 

 plan which is, perhaps, equally effective, is to wash the floors 

 and mangers with corrosive sublimate and to whitewash the 

 rest of the stable. 



TUBERCULOSIS IN THE COLLEGE HERD 



After the burning of the college barn, November 3, 1894, 

 the cattle were stabled : part in an old barn on the College 

 farm, and part of them in a neighboring barn. Novemljer 19 

 and 20 the herd, numbering 55, was tested with tuberculin by 

 Dr. F. A. Rich of Burlington, Vt. Eight of the cattle— 14I 

 percent — reacted. One case was considered suspicious. The 

 temperatures recorded are given in table I. Of the condemned 

 animals two, the Jersey bull and Clio, were killed the next 

 day ; both showed the characteristic lesions of the disease. 

 The remaining ones were isolated in a portion of the stable 

 partitioned off from the rest of the herd. They were kept 

 here until the weather became warm enough for them to live 

 out of doors, when they were transferred to an open shed at 

 the rear of the barn ; when cold weather came again they 

 were put in an isolated stable. During the time of isolation 

 they received ordinary care simply. 



March i and 2, 1895, the herd was again tested by Dr. 

 Rich. Two more animals reacted, Nora 2d and Aurora 2d ; 

 they were placed with the other condemned animals in quar- 

 rantine. The temperatures taken at this test are given in table 



II. 



The temperatures of the condemned animals at these two 

 tests and their reactions are given in a separate table. Table 

 III. 



