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intestines, it cannot be concluded that putrefaction diminish^ 
the virulency of the bacilli, as the sputa of phthisis contains othei 
pathogenic organisms, capable of stimulating the formation o: 
inflammatory foci resembling more or less those of tuberculosis 
—Revue des Sciences Medicates. 
EXTRACTS FROM AGRICULTURAL PAPERS INTERESTING 
TO VETERINARIANS. 
RED TAPE—DEALINGS WITH CONTAGIOUS DISEASES-“A 
MODERN INSTANCE.” 
To the Gazette: 
On the 19th of August I wrote to the chief of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry calling his attention to the outbreak of pleuro¬ 
pneumonia at Quebec quarantine station, and suggested that 
immediate steps should be taken to prevent cattle that had been 
in that station with the infected cattle from being imported into 
the United States, and mentioning a lot of polled Angus cattle 
of Mr. Dye, of Miami Co., O., as probably in that category. To 
this letter Dr. Salmon answered August 25, saying that it was 
received during his absence, added, “ we have taken steps to 
secure information in regard to the danger, if any, to be appre¬ 
hended from the presence of pleuro-pneumonia in the Quebec 
quarantine station. My impression is that the disease was recog¬ 
nized immediately on the arrival of the infected herd and that no 
cattle have left the station since that time. I hope to have defi¬ 
nite information in regard to this in a few days, and if there is 
any reason for quarantining any herds which have come through 
that station to the United States I will notify the proper State 
authorities at once in order that this may be done.” 
And now, on the 6th day of September, I have received from 
the Bureau of Animal Industry the following: 
Hon. T. C. Jones , Chairman of the Ohio State Board of Live, 
Stock Commissioners , Delaware , 0 . ; I have received informa¬ 
tion from the Inspector of Stock for the Dominion of Canada 
that the infected cattle were admitted to quarantine on June 24, 
