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with the animal standing. Several hours after the operation 
there is warm and painful swelling of the region. This lasted 
48 hours; then resolution started in and was completed in fif¬ 
teen days.—( Journ . de Med Vet. and Zobtb) 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the year 
1899. Washington, D. C. 
This volume reached me quite late, and could not be noticed 
before. As many of its predecessors, it forms quite a large 
volume, nearly 800 pages, and contains many illustrations re¬ 
lating to several of the interesting subjects which are presented 
to the reader. Of course, the 16th Annual Report is made un¬ 
der the direction of the Chief, Dr. D. E. Salmon, and that is 
saying enough to assure our readers that all the documents 
which the volume contains have passed under his close obser¬ 
vation and criticism. 
The volume begins with a kind of introduction by the gen¬ 
eral report of the Chief Meat Inspector with many statistics, 
the inspection of pork, of vessels, of export animals, of South¬ 
ern cattle, the prevention of scabies, black-leg investigations, 
Texas fever at home and in the West Indies, etc., etc. The 
preparation of tuberculin, mallein, serum for hog cholera and 
swine plague, and many other points relating to various divis¬ 
ions of the Bureau are considered by Dr. Salmon, who con¬ 
cludes the general report by a number of special' recommenda¬ 
tions for the coming year, important among which I read the 
following, which are most interesting to our colleagues : That, 
the meat inspection force be increased, that measures for ex¬ 
cluding sheep affected with scabies from the channels of inter¬ 
state commerce be rigidly enforced, that the distribution of 
black-leg vaccine be continued, that representatives of the State 
experiment stations be instructed in the manufacture and use 
of antitoxin for hog cholera and swine plague, etc. 
What may be considered as the first chapter of the report 
relates principally to experiments with Texas fever and South¬ 
ern cattle ticks. It contains from E. C. Schroeder, M. D. M., 
and W. E. Cotton articles on u Growing of non-infected ticks 
and afterwards infecting them,” on “the vitality of the South¬ 
ern cattle ticks,” on “ the persistency of the Texas fever organ¬ 
ism in the blood of cattle,” and on “ Experiments with blood 
