54 Report oF DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY OF THE 
The local health officer, when consulted, raised objection, on 
the basis of local regulations, to the sale of such Government In- 
spected meat which if passed would have been of the same quality 
as that which is being shipped to this city in car load lots and 
would have been immeasurably better from the standpoint of 
public health than much of the locally killed meat which is sub- 
jected to no inspection whatever. 
Desiring to avoid any conflict with the local authorities the 
idea of selling the meat was abandoned, but in order to determine 
what value still remained in the animals the carcasses were care- 
fully inspected. For this work we availed ourselves of the ser- 
vices of Dr. W. B. Mack, Assistant in the Department of Com- 
parative Pathology and Bacteriology at the N. Y. State Veterinary 
College. While no longer officially connected with the Bureau of 
Animal Industry, Dr. Mack had just returned from Kansas City 
where for some months he had served as a Federal Inspector in 
one of the large slaughter houses. The results of the examina- 
tion made by Dr. Mack of the carcasses of five of the tuberculous 
cows are, in reference to that disease, as follows: 
POST MORTEM NOTES BY W. B. MACK, D.V.M. 
Geneva, N. Y., Nov. 17 and 18, 1905. 
The following tubercular lesions were found: 
Nettie.— Mediastinal lymphatic glands enlarged and caseated with a few 
slight calcareous foci in one of them. Right lung, principal lobe, contained 
a caseous area about I.5 cm in diameter. In the liver substance were seven 
or eight tubercles from 0.5 to 1.5 cm in diameter. 
Lily— Mediastinal lymphatic glands enlarged and caseous. Extensive 
caseous lesions in both lungs. A large number of tubercles from 0.3 to I 
cm in diameter attached to the left costal pleura and that’ covering the 
mediastinum. Liver contained four tubercular areas from I to 2 cm in 
diameter. 
Chloe— One mediastinal lymphatic gland showed slight tubercular foci. 
Both prescapular lymphatic glands contained slight foci of the disease, ap- 
parently quite old. 
Lady.— Mediastinal lymphatic glands enlarged and caseous with extensive 
caseous lesions in both lungs. 
Kate.— Mediastinal lymphatic glands somewhat enlarged and contained 
slight tubercular foci in a calcareous condition. Left prescapular gland has 
two foci of the disease about 0.4 cm in diameter. 
“In my opinion the cows Chloe and Kate would pass the Federal meat 
inspection. The lesions in the others were either too extensive, too largely 
distributed or in such condition as to warrant their condemnation for food.” 
