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6. By means of tuberculin it can be readily detected in all 

 stages. 



7. The tuberculin test is simple, harmless and conclusive and 

 should be used to test all cattle in the State and all imported ani- 

 mals before they are introduced into nevv herds. 



8. The Experiment Station will for a time undertake to test 

 cattle for any who may desire, at the simple cost of traveling 

 expenses. 



9. Glanders is often an obscure disease with no well marlied 

 symptoms. 



10. G-landers may be transmitted from affected horses and 

 mules to man by means of the discharge from the nostrils or from 

 ulcerated lymphatic glands. 



11. Glanders is most prevalent in large cities but is often con- 

 veyed by the sale of affected horses into country towns. 



12. Mallein serves as a sure test of the presence of glanders. 

 lo. Mallein can be used with no risk and slight expense. 



F. L. RUSSELL. 

 Maine State College, ) • 



Orono, Me., June 1, 1894 j 



BULLETIX Xo. 15. 



A SCHE3IE FOR PAYIXG FOE CEEA:vI BY THE BABCOCK 

 TEST IX BUTTER FACTORIES. 



J. M. Bartlett. 



Several of the butter factories in this State are already employ- 

 ing this test to determine the butter value of the cream furnished 

 by their patrons and are making use of those values as a basis of 

 payment. In some cases considerable confusion and dissatisfac- 

 tion have arisen between the patrons and managers of the factories, 

 due in some cases to a misunderstanding on the part of the former 

 and in some few instances to an improper handling of the test on 

 the part of the latter. We feel it our duty to state here that no 

 person should even attempt to employ the test as a basis of pay- 

 ment until he has thoroughly mastered it and has convinced him- 

 self that he can obtain correct results. It would be better in all 

 cases if he could secure instruction from some person competent 

 to give it, than to try to work it out by himself. 



