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permitted him to detect through the skin the presence of an 
opening, the diameter of which could not be well made out on 
account of the irritability of the mare. Unable to relieve the 
oedema by massage, it was decided to resort to irrigations. 
These were applied for several days and when the oedema had 
subsided there remained but a little tumor, about the size of an 
orange, at the centre of which a small opening of the mnscular 
walls of the abdomen could be detected. The principal part of 
the tumor could not be formed by the protruding intestines, 
but by the skin and the subcutaneous tissue underneath. On 
account of the condition of the lesion, radical interference was 
not considered justifiable and treatment by nitric acid was re¬ 
sorted to. Two applications of this caustic were made a few 
days apart. These were followed by a swelling which grad¬ 
ually subsided. iV cutaneous slough took place two weeks after 
and the wound resulting from it treated with derniol ointment 
of ten per cent. Recovery was completed in six weeks’ time. 
—(^Clinica Veterinarian 
THE VALUE OF TUBERCULIN. 
DETAILS OF EXPERIMENTS UPON A NEW HAMPSHIRE HERD BY 
THE STATE CATTLE COMMISSIONERS. 
The following report has just been issued by the New Hamp¬ 
shire Board of Cattle Commissioners, and published throughout 
the New England agricultural press : 
Concord, June 25, 189??. 
The attention of the Cattle Commissioners was called June 
12, 1897, to a herd of thoroughbred Holstein cattle owned by 
Mr.^ F. B. Shedd, of Northfield, an extensive land owner, culti¬ 
vating and improving one of the finest farms in New Hamp¬ 
shire. The tuberculin test had been applied by a veterinarian, 
employed by Mr. Shedd, to 21 cattle, 12 of which failed to pass 
and in which the temperature reaction was very high. Two of 
the twelve were advanced cases of tuberculosis and had been de* 
stroyed before the arrival of the Commissioners. The ten animals 
remaining, to which our attention was called, consisted of nine 
thoroughbred Holstein cows and a thoroughbred Holstein bull, 
the latter weighing over 2000 pounds, all of which were under 
four years old. We found the nine cows isolated from all other 
cattle and so much excitement prevailed that the enclosure in 
which they were kept was a source of serious alarm to many of 
