AND MINING RECORD. 



"^OL. IV. FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1902. No. 23. 



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CONTKNTS. 



PAv>E. 



District Reports ... ... 707 



Veterinary. 



Rinderpest By H. Watkir. s- Pitch- 

 ford. F.R.C.V.S. ... ... 705 



Bile Notice ... ... ... 709 



Laboratory Prices ... ... 712 



December Reports ... ... 725 



Agricultdre. 



India Rubber from Zuluiand ... 707 



Coco-de-mer ... ... 712 



Indigo Cultivation : Views of J. G. 

 Colenbrauder and Friend 



>'ddison ... ... ... 713 



Holcus Lanatus Grass ... ... 724 



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Agriculture. 



Glass Seed Propagation. Bj' W. 



Adams ... ... ... 728 



Paspalum Dilatatum. A Eulogy ... 735 



Cattle. 



Juflging at Shows ... ... 710 



Queenslacd Cattle : Mr. Booker's 



Views. By Ergates ... ... 729 



Miscellaneous. 



" My Gipsy." By J. T. Godfrey ... 718 

 Reminiscences of a Trek Ox. By 



Vetpense... ... ... 719 



How to Pack Flowers for Post ... 733 



Market Reports ... ... 736 



Rinderpest. 



' Continued.) 



By H, WaTKINS-Pitchford, F.R.C.V.S., Director Ve'erinary Department. 



THE importance, from an economic 

 point of view, of utilising every avail- 

 able bile is obvious. At best the method 

 is open to the objection of being the most 

 costly of any of the methods of disease- 

 prevention known to science. 



It is often a matter of impossibility to 

 gauge with any degree of exactitude the 

 amount of bile obtainable from a given 

 number of animals. Ihis variability is 

 dependent upon such causes as the 

 rapidity with which the individual 

 beast succumbs to the disease ; 

 disorganization of liver-function, and 



diminution of bile-secretion, natur- 

 ally depending upon the duration of 

 the malady, the facilities for ol)taining 

 succulent and appetising food which will 

 stimulate the digestive secretions, free 

 access to water, etc., as well as the more 

 obvious causes of variation consequent 

 upon age, development, etc. Even where 

 a certain number of animals are artifically 

 infected and set aside for the purpose of 

 bile-production, it is a matter of difficulty 

 to estimate the yield with accuracy. As 

 a practical working rule during the last 

 outbreak, it wag found that 5 per cent, of 



