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hogs ; it will be about sixty pages and will give you some useful 

 information, so if you want to know anything about the diseases 

 of dairy cattle, do not forget this is at your service. 



President : Before Dr. Peters leaves the platform are there 

 any questions; let us have them. 



Member: Do you furnish a preventative for abortion? 



Dr. Peters: Yes. This material will be sent you free of 

 charge. I do not know what we would have done if we had not 

 had those hogs from Mr. Haner. We have not had any money 

 in my department since last October. I want to say that if I had 

 had the funds I could have supplied 500,000 doses of rook vac- 

 cine free of charge. You know what that means to you. 



President : We will now hear from Mr. Carmer. If the 

 ladies would like to stay we would be glad to have them. We 

 are very fortunate to have Mr. Carmer with us this afternoon. 



Mr. Carmer : In Germany the farmer is for the fields and 

 the ladies for the stables. Mr. President and Gentlemen : When 

 I promised Professor Peters to attend your convention and speak 

 J had in mind that I might speak about some of my experiences 

 with animal diseases. So if I speak today about vaginal infection 

 of cows I do it at the special wish of Professor Peters. 



This disease is not only of importance to us in Germany, 

 but to all dairymen throughout the world. The milk cow in or- 

 der to produce as great a benefit as possible, must not only have 

 regularly occurring periods of pregnancy, but parturition must 

 occur, in our country in autumn or early winter. The complaint 

 that a great many cows are sterile is common among the dairy- 

 men. The disease vaginitis is peculiar to the cow ; it is essen- 

 tially a catarrhal inflammation arTecting the vulna-vaginal mu- 

 cous membrane in the female and the prepuce and glans penis in 

 the male. The causal agent is said to be a streptococcus, found 

 in the deeper layers of the vaginal mucosa and in the mucopuru- 



