Report on the Health of Animals of the Farm. 
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During the progress of the disease, a well-marked cutaneous 
eruption took place, and was followed with the formation of 
vesicles. These yielded a fluid which was collected on ivory 
points for inoculation, and with it two healthy pigs were inocu- 
lated. They both contracted typhoid fever ; the one sickening 
on the fifth and the other on the sixth day. After about three 
weeks' illness these pigs died, and in them also all the lesions 
of typhoid fever were well established. 
These experiments have since been repeated, and several 
others also had recourse to, with affirmative results. In due 
course the whole of the experiments will be reported. 
Tuberculosis — Scrofula. — Attention has often been directed 
in former Reports to the prevalence of scrofula in several tribes 
of our improved Shorthorns, Herefords, and Devons, as well as 
among the more common breeds of cattle. The hereditary 
nature of this disease has also been dwelt upon, and the danger 
of breeding from animals which gave the slightest indication of 
the malady has been frequently alluded to. Some specimens 
of the affection having been received at the College, advantage 
was taken of the circumstance to institute a series of experi- 
ments. Several rabbits and guinea pigs were inoculated by Pro- 
fessor Axe with scrofulous matter, and these all died at various 
periods afterwards, exhibiting extensive deposits of similar 
material in various organs of che body. 
Two cats were fed with portions of the lungs of a pig, the 
subject of tuberculosis, and both became affected. One died 
and the other was killed. 
Some female rabbits were inoculated, and after a time, when 
evidences of the disease were fairly established, they were put to 
the male and became pregnant. Their young were killed at 
different periods after birth, and several of them were found 
to be the subjects of the malady. These and allied experi- 
ments have been repeated, and it has been fully established that 
tuberculosis passes in rabbits from parents to offspring through 
several succeeding generations, and that a third part of the young 
born of infected parents die from the disease. 
In due course a detailed account of these experiments will also 
be reported. 
To this Report three others are appended, which have been 
received from Professor Axe. Two of these have reference to 
Heematosepsis, " black-leg," in cattle ; and one to Splenic apoplexy. 
We also add a short Report by Professor Tuson of some cases 
of poisoning of cattle by a " feeding-cake," in which he dis- 
covered the deleterious material to consist of the seeds of wild 
mustard. 
