SIXTH INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY CONGRESS. 653 
Michigan has a State live stock sanitary commission of 
;heir farmers, and a State veterinarian who is paid $5 a day. 
It has lull power in animal diseases, to fix value of condemned 
:attle at date of appraisal, which shall be paid by State. The 
commission has caused tuberculin to be used “in all cases re¬ 
ported where there existed a fair presumption that cattle were 
iffected with tuberculosis.” 
Indiana. —“ State live stock sanitary commission has full 
powers in contagious or infectious diseases of cattle, but the 
aw makes no mention of tuberculosis, though the board of 
lealth has urged county commissioners to appoint veterinar- 
ans or physicians to inspect dairies for it. Cattle to be killed 
ly the commissioners are appraised by it and the amount paid 
n full by State ; the State veterinarian shall be paid $2,000 g 
/ear only if he devotes his time entirely to the commission. 
SIXTH INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY CONGRESS. 
The following resolutions were submitted to the Sixth 
nternational Veterinary Congress, which held its sittings at 
Berne, from the 16th to the 21st of September, 1895. 
/. International Veterinary Sanitary Police . 
1. —There ought to be instituted an international bureau 
or the furnishing of information regarding veterinary sani- 
ary affairs and for the publication of an international bulletin 
egarding the contagious diseases of domestic animals. 
\dopted unanimously. 
2. —The Swiss Federal Council ought to be invited to take 
he initiative in calling together an international conference 
o be charged with the elaborating of a convention regarding 
he international traffic in cattle. Adopted unanimously. 
II. Mallein. 
1. —Mallein is a powerful agent for assuring the diagnosis 
>f the disease in cases suspected of glanders. 
2. —The systematic use of mallein in stables in which 
;landers prevails is the best means to bring about extinction 
>f the disease. Adopted by 49 votes against 39. 
