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Galtier found that the virus remained active for six days in 

 putrefying organic matter at 39" to 75" F.; for 25 days in water, 

 at room temperature ; the refuse litter, fodder, manure, and drain- 

 age matter from the infected place must be carefully guarded 

 against. The virus steadily loses in force in such media, but 

 remains infecting to animals injected with it. The most active 

 -disinfectants may be used on the pens and yards (copperas 5%, 

 sulphuric acid 2 <fo solution, or mercuric chloride . 2 % ) while the con- 

 taminated fields should be abandoned for the season. All drop- 

 pings may be treated with sulphuric acid (2%), creolin, lysol, 

 phenic acid or copper sulphate. The susceptibility of practically 

 all the animals of the farm, demands the exclusion of these, while 

 that of rodents, renders necessary the further exclusion of wild 

 mammals ; and we may add birds, wild and tame, and if possible 

 ilies. The plowing of the contaminated soil will do much to obviate 

 danger, yet the sheep folds and pastures should be separated by a 

 considerable distance from any place where infected animals and 

 objects have been. If drinking troughs for sound animals have 

 been used by the sick or suspected they should be emptied and 

 -washed with disinfectant (sulphuric acid 2:100). 



SEPTIC (BACTERIDIAN) DISEASES OF THE IvUNGS 

 ETC., IN ANGORA GOATS. 



Contagious lung diseases in Angora goats have prevailed in 

 Saanen, Simmenthal, in the Bernese Alps (Pusch), in Schmal- 

 kalden, Thuringer Wald (Schiitz) in Stembach — Hallenburg, at 

 Ismid on the Coast of the Sea of Marmora and inland in Angora 

 (Nicole and Refik Bey), in Khandesh in the Bombay Presidency 

 (Steel), and in Cape Colony (Hutcheon). In 1903, Mohler and 

 Washburn described under the names of Takosis {teko, to waste) 

 an infectious destructive disease of Angoras in Penn., and Md., 

 and quoted reports of what appeared to be similar troubles in 

 Oregon, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Massachussetts, Georgia, 



and Texas. 



Causes. The disease was especially fatal in Penn., and Md., 

 in autumn and winter, having started with goats imported from 

 Texas. It was first attributed to laurel poisoning, but proved 



