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to the east door of the barn, through which the manure had to 
be forked out, with a cold east wind entering by that door, and 
blowing on cattle that had been shut up in a warm building over 
night, a slight chill was to be expected. 
The Jersey Daisy never rose, above the normal standard of 
102°, excepting in the first test, and then only 102.3 0 —too little 
to furnish even a suggestion of tuberculosis, and no higher than 
-we find in many well-fed, healthy cattle. 
The Holstein Belva, on two occasions rose to 102.5 0 , half a 
degree above the normal standard, but which is often attained 
in health, and apart from the tuberculin test. Moreover on five 
other tests both before and after these she did not show a rise 
over 102 0 so that the less suspicion should arise from this 
insignificant elevation. 
The Devon grade cow in different tests had her temperature 
elevated to 102°, and on one occasion to 102.6° a little more 
than half a degree above the normal, and which as already said 
is often found in the healthiest cows. 
The Shorthorn grade had a fever temperature on one occa¬ 
sion apparently from a chill as already referred to. In her first 
test it rose to 102.6° as did also the Devon grade on the same 
occasion. This may be explained partly by the fact that both 
had been driven a distance of seven miles the day previous, 
causing much excitement, and followed by the excitement in¬ 
duced by coming into a new place, and bred among new people. 
One other point should be named as affecting the temper¬ 
ature of all the test animals in the early forenoon and late after- 
noon. The whole herd was put in the barn for feeding and 
milking, from five to seven in the morning, and from three to six 
in the afternoon, so that at these hours the place was crowded 
and the disturbance greater. Elevations of temperature of a 
degree, and under occurring at such times, and as repeatedly 
seen in the tested animals are thus accounted for. Such eleva¬ 
tions do not show the persistence, and the slow gradations of 
rise and fall which we usually see in the rise caused by the 
tuberculin. 
