THE AOBICULTUBAL JOURNAL. 



87 



Newcastle and Upper Tugela Divisions, 

 due ill a great measure to the large herds 

 of cattle which are being continually 

 introduced into Natal f rotn the new 

 Colonies for the purpose of l)eing traded 

 in exchange for horses. The result is 

 that the majority of the animals break 

 out with the disease shortly after their 

 owners get them to their farms. The 

 names of people to whom cattle are being 

 issued, by the military are now being 

 taken, and the destination of the animals 

 ascertained. 



There are ten fresh outbreaks reported 

 in Newcastle, four in Dundee, three in 

 Umsinga, and nine in the Upper Tugela 

 Divisions. 



Scah. — Owing to the existence of scab 

 amongst them, the whole of the sheep 

 sold at the military sale held at Newcastle 

 on February 22nd have been placed under 

 license, and will not be allowed to leave 

 the District until declared clean by the 

 Stock Ijaspector. 



Eleven flocks have been placed under 

 license in tlie Newcastle, two in Dundee, 

 and one in Umsinga Division during the 

 month. 



R dwater. — A great many cases of this 

 disease among captured cattle brought 

 into the Colony from the high veld have 

 come under my notice. 



Horsesickness.—lm\&tedL cases of the 

 disease contiime to be reported from all 

 parts of my District. Out of fifty animals 

 left behind in Dundee by the Composite 

 Regiment, three deaths have, so far, 

 occurred from the disease. 



Although numerous requests have been 

 made for my services dui-ing the month 

 by private owners of stock, I am sorry to 

 say that I have been unable to give them 

 attention. 



DURBAN— D.V.S. AMOS. 



Glanders has been especially reported 

 upon as far as the outbreak in Mr. 

 Douglas' stable is concerned. One other 

 isolated case has been destroyed and con- 

 firmed by post-mortem examination. 



Tubercolosis. — Nine cows have been 

 tested, and no reaction given. 



B'orsesickness.—'No cases have come 

 under my personal notice, but the Corpo- 

 ration tram stables report four cases. 



GRF]YTOWN— D.V.S. CORDY. 



Sm/j. — A Tresh outbreak has occurred 

 in the fiock of Messrs. T. J. and C. M. Botha, 

 of Welverdient. This was not rtiported 

 by the owners, which is to be regretted, 

 as it was thought that this county was 

 free from scab at the end of last month. 



Lungsickness. — No fresh outbreaks 

 have occurred during the month, but the 

 herd of Mr. E. Bentley, of York, and that 

 of Native Lugi, of Blinkwater, are still in 

 quarantine. In Mr. Bentley's troop three 

 cows are still suflCering from the disease, 

 and four other head of cattle, which have 

 made a so-called recovery, are looking 

 somewhat suspicious still. Had the dis- 

 eased animals been destroyed in the first 

 instance, I think it more than probable 

 that the farm would have been out of 

 quarantine now. 



Gallsickness has been prevalent among 

 cattle in the Eastern Umvoti District, and 

 lilue tongue has caused many deaths 

 among sheep in the Western Umvoti 

 District. 



The work of the month included the 

 treatment of the following cases in the 

 horse, viz. : — Bilious fever, pneumonia 

 and pleurisy, laminitis, two cases of sore 

 throat with fever, ophthalmia, chronic 

 indigestion, and various other ordinary 

 cases such as occur in every day practice. 



A report from Vienna is to the effect that one 

 of the scientists there has discovered that the 

 bacteria in milk may be easily killed by means 

 of electricity, and a very moderate current at 

 that. It is declared that the treatoient is 

 simple. This is of immen e value to the human 

 race, if true. It means that milk can be 

 sterilised without the application of heat. It 

 would not only place in the hands of dairymen 

 the means of making better butter, but it would 

 make the pasteurisation of the private milk 

 supply popular, thereby decreasing all the 

 diseases whose germs are carried in the milk. 



The sale of a horse by means of photography 

 is reported from Ireland, the Macalister Stud in 

 Miss9uri having bought the young stallion 

 Laurium, by Eightaway, without having seen 

 him, except in the guise of a photograph, which 

 was shown to Mr. Mc Ulster's agent by Mr. 

 Joseph Osborne, the veteran author of the 

 " Horse Breeder's Handbook." Mr. McAlister 

 was so struck by the photograph, that, upon hear- 

 ing the horse was a fair performer on the turf, 

 he at once secjred him and had bim shipped to 

 New York for his stud in Missouri, which com- 

 prises thirty mares, a third of which are by the 

 best English sires. 



