The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-20


Copenhagen, Denmark, where he gradu-
lated from Royal Veterinary College in
1889 This college is the largest and
best equipped of any of the European
veterinary schools and requires the at
tendance of the students for four and
a-half to five years before graduation.
! All of the professors are royal ap-
pointees and favoritism is unknown.
The student who fails in an examina-
ton is set back one year and many
cases are on record where seven. eight
or even ten years have been spent in
efforts to obtain the coveted degree.
After one year Of post graduate stud-
les Dr. Norgaard came to the United
sets and later in Wisconsin. AT the
latter place he became acquainted with
the First Secretary of Agriculture.
General J. NJ Rusk, from whom he ae-
the Bureau of Animal Industry with a
station in the Union Stock Yards in
Chicago.
The appointment was made in June,
1891. The same year DIR. Norgaard dis
covered the curative effect of iodide of
potash or. actinon1ycosis or lunpy jaw
in cattle, thereby reyolutionizing the
practice Of wholesale condemnation OF
cattle so affected, and which had cost
the cattle raisers of the West hun
dreds of thousands of dollars. The
system OF inspection resulting from this
discovery is still in force and the losses
from the disease in question are but
fraction of what they used to be.
AS reward for this discovery DR..
Norgaard was promoted TO assistant in
the Pathological Division OF the Bureau
of Animal Industry in Washington. The
object of this division is the study of
the contagious and infectious diseases
Of the domestic animals all over the
United States and to devise remedies
for their suppression and eradication
Few other places in the world offer the
same opportunities for the student to
become proficient in this most import
ant adjunct TO the live stock industry
the health ana development under sani-
tarv conditions of the domestic animals.
individually and collectively.
For a number of years DR.. Norgaard
travelled all over the United States. but
principally in the southwest, investi-
eating outbreaks of various diseases
such as Texas fever, anthrax and
blackIeg in cattle, hog cholera and
swine plague in hogs. sheep scale in
sheep and CHAMBERS and farcy in horses.
In 1895 Dr. Norgaard was promoted
TO Chief Of the Pathological Division
and soon thereafter introduced the
method of dipping cattle in oil and
sulphur for the destruction of the para
site known as the Texas fever tick,
which is alone responsible for the
transmission of this fatal disease from
animal to animal. in the same manner
as the mosquito transmits malaria and
yellow fever When it is considered
that about one-third of the total area
of the United States is infested with |
the Texas fever tick. necessitating the /
maintenance of an expensive quaraE1-
tine line stretching from the Atlantic |
to the Pacific ocean the Importance Of /
this move is obvious. BY simply max |
ing the tick-infested cattle swim |
through a bath of mineral oil contain |
ing the required amount of sulphur, the |
big live stock markets of the central /
west-Chicago, Kansas City, St Louis /
and Ou7aha-were opened TO the mil t
lions of cattle hitherto kept in perIna- I
1eDf quarantine Except for immediate /
sIaughfer3. while at the same time the /
Grain producing states were enabled 70 :
obtain cheap feeding stock and thereby I
an outlet and a better price for their |
surr,Ir1s Of grain. It is. however. only |
recently. with the discovery at Beau /
mont Texas. of crude mineral which |
ratt1raIly contains the required sulphur |
IN solution that DR. Norgaard's dis |
.overv has been carried into practical |
effect and an order issued by the Bu- |
~eaU of Animal Industry releasing from /
quarantine tick-infested cattle after
aiming in crude Beaumont oil.
The next and in his own opinion
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