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Vol. IV. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1901. No. 21. 



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CONTENTS. 



District Reports 

 Veterinary. 



Rinderpest (continued). By H. 

 Watkins-Pitchford. F.R.C.V.S .. 



Rinderpest, Notice of P. V.S. 

 „ Weekly Report 



Departmental Reports ... 



Bets in Horses 

 Agriculture. 



Paspalum Dilatafum Propagation ... 



Chemis ry for Beginners. By Archd. 

 Pearce 



Lucerae Growing 



Points about Bonedust ... 

 Cattle. 



Queensland Cattle 



A Branding Mixture ' ... 



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648 

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Dairy. 



PAGE. 



Creameries in Ireland ... 



660 



Fruit Culture 





The Banana (Illustrated) 



659 



Ringing of Plants 



663 



Pine Cultivation 



670 



Entomology. 





Msggot Fly. By Claude Fuller 



656 



Miscellaneous. 



Trout in Little Mooi River 

 Interview with Mr. P. Otto, J.P. By 



Ergates ... 

 Orange River Irrigation... 



Market Reports 



641 



653 

 671 



672 



Rintierpestm 



(Continued.) 



By H. Watkins-Pitchford, F.R.C.V.S., Director Vetbrinary Department. 



BILE INOCULATION. 



A RECOGNITION of so grave a fact 

 Jlx. that bile taken directly from a beast 

 which had succumbed from the rinder- 

 pest when introduced into the system of 

 of a healthy animal was, under certain 

 certain circumstances, capable of giving 

 rise to the disease, called for the devising 

 of a means by which this objection to the 

 use of bila as a protective agent could be 

 overcome. Koch had shown in his earlier 

 researches into the disease that the admix- 

 ture of glycerine with virulent blood was 



sufBcient to cause the destruction in the 

 blood of the contained infectious prin- 

 ciple. It would, therefore, have seemed 

 a natural inference that the same agent 

 would exert a similar bactericidal effect 

 when added to other infectious body 

 fluids. That this in fact was the case was 

 ascertained by Dr. Edington, who, by 

 adding a large percentage (33 per cent.) of 

 glycerine to the gall taken from a rinder- 

 pest beast, was able to show that by such 

 contact the infective power of bile was 



