HAEMORRHAGIC SEPTICAEMIA IN CATTLE. 
1001 
1 % 
fibrinous pleuritis, pericarditis and gastro-enteritis were present 
in many of the animals ; the blood was well coagulated and 
not very dark. The spleen was swollen. In the blood and in 
the organs were found small ovoidal endstaining bacilli which 
when isolated and studied in pure cultures were indistinguish¬ 
able from those causing cliicken cholera, rinderseuche, swine- 
seuche, etc. Rabbits and mice succumbed to injection in forty- 
eight hours, guinea-pigs in eight days ; one steer died in about 
thirty hours after a subcutaneous injection, and showed sero- 
gelatinous, in part haemorrhagic infiltration of the subcutaneous 
and intramuscular tissue at the point of inoculation ; numerous 
haemorrhages in all of the organs, haemorrhagic swelling of the 
lymph glands and enlargement of the spleen. Chickens inocu¬ 
lated subcutaneously died after eleven days and showed necrosis 
of the liver. For the solution of the question whether these 
similar diseases in various animals (rinderseuche, swineseuche, 
chicken cholera, etc.) are but forms of the same disease, Jensen 
inoculated six chickens with small doses of the bacteria of the 
calf disease. Four to six weeks later the same birds were in¬ 
oculated with large doses of chicken cholera bacilli, whose 
virulence was shown by control inoculations in chickens. The 
fowls previously inoculated with the calf disease bacilli, showed 
no symptoms; thus apparently proving that immunity to 
chicken cholera in chickens had been established by vaccinal 
injections of bacilli bovisepticus . 
I could relate many more reports of outbreaks of this disease 
from this most complete report from the Minnesota State Board 
of Health. 
There are about 18,000 trotters with records of 2:30 and 
better. 
Range horses from Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana 
and Oregon are winning praise and popularity in England. 
Broncos of the type that speculators were canning for export 
three or four years ago are now being used in England for polo 
and the hunting field. English critics say they are natural 
jumpers and as handy as cats, in addition to being hardy and of 
fine fibre. 
