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showed the disease in all in various stages of development, 
from the localized miliary tubercle in the lung tissue or lym¬ 
phatic gland to generalized tuberculosis in the viscera and 
glands; Nos. 482, 487 and 492 presenting no post-mortem devia¬ 
tions from the average of the herd ; merely localized tubercles 
in the lungs and lymphatic glands. The cows were all in fair 
flesh, considering the scarcity of pasture during the summer. 
Gestation had advanced from one to about eight months inmost 
of the herd. 
The peculiar deviations in the above temperatures led to a 
very careful ante as well as post-mortem inspection, but no fur¬ 
ther lesions were detected in either. It is regretted that circum¬ 
stances were such as to prohibit the taking of the temperature 
in No. 482 for some days following the test. In the face of all 
the difficulties, however, the results indicate to a great degree 
how far the test may be relied upon in doubtful or irregular 
cases, and a study of the thermal lines in the chart made from 
the temperatures of the animals of the different barns certainly 
shows a debilitating influence at work somewhere in the system 
of animals from barn No. i, due no doubt to the filthy condi¬ 
tions of the sourroundings. 
VETERINARY JOURNALISM. 
By W. H. Dalrymple, M. R. C. V. S., Baton Rouge, La. 
Incorporated in the Report of the Committee on Intelligence and Education of the U. S. 
V. M. A., at Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 8, 1897. 
Journalism, as an important medium of professional educa¬ 
tion, is a subject which should ever be kept prominently before 
the mind of each individual member of our profession. There 
is the possibility, or perhaps I ought to say tendency, on the 
part of many of us to forgetfulness of this fact, with the result 
that we are apt to retrogress rather than progress along the 
different lines of our professional work. There is no profession 
or business to-day that can expect to succeed without its 
periodical literature. Text-books, devoted to either branch of 
