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Experiments in Dipping Against Texas Fever._ 
Washington,p. C, OcL 2^. —Dr. Norgaard, Chief of the Patho¬ 
logical Division, Bureau of Animal Industry, has returned to the 
Agricultural Department after a series of experiments in Texas 
with cattle carrying the tick which causes Texas fever, and re¬ 
ports that an investigation of several hundred head of infected 
cattle dipped in the paraffin solution demonstrated that the 
wash kills the tick without producing any injurious effect upon 
the cattle beyond a temporaly irritation of the skin. A num¬ 
ber of States are now preparing to experiment with the dipping 
process.^ In Illinois the experiment will be conducted by the 
State Live-Stock Sanitary Board, and in Missouri by the State 
Board of Agriculture. If the j^araffin and lard-oil solution as 
used by Dr. Norgaard proves entirely successful it is estimated 
that it will work a saving to stock-raisers of between fifteen and 
twenty million dollars annually.— {Breeder's Gazette) 
A New Caeifornia Horse Disease. —Dr. Isaac W. 
O’Rourke, city veterinary of San Francisco, has discovered a new 
disease among horses. It appeared only recently, but is spread¬ 
ing over the State with remarkable rapidity, particularly on the 
lands adjoining the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers. Dr. 
O’Rourke went to Tubbs’ Island, on the San Joaquin River, last 
Wednesday, to inspect 200 horses belonging to William Tubbs, 
the San Francisco cordage manufacturer. He found fifty of the 
animals suffering from the mysterious disease. It manifests 
itself in the form of abscessed swellings on different parts of the 
body. Some of these attain an enormous size. So far the num¬ 
ber of deaths resulting from the malady has been small. 1 It is Dr. 
O’Rourke’s opinion that the disease grows out of fly bites, and 
y/as introduced here by foreign stock of the poisonous fly, which 
is a stranger in California, is smaller than the common house 
fly and yellow in color. For the treatment of the disease 
the veterinarian recommends compound camphor liniment._ 
{Breeder and Sportsman) 
The Tuberculosis Crusade in Hawaii. —Apropos of the 
letter of Dr. W. T. Monsarrat, in the October Review, the fol¬ 
lowing is found in the Pacific Coimnerdal Advertiser, published 
in Honolulu : “ Protests against the killing of dairy cows 
affected with tuberculosis are still being received by the Board 
of Health, and the fact that some of these bear the ear-marks of 
a lawyer’s office gives ground for belief that there are com¬ 
plications ahead. A plan was at one time proposed, which if 
