Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-18
CARE OF FARM ANIMALS
SUGGESTIONS IN REPORT OF
GOVERNMENT BUREAU.
Diseases Among Horses. Cattle and
Sheep and Course of Treat
ment Outlined.

The twenty-f1fth annual report of the
bureau Of animal industry of the United
States Department OF Agriculture, just
published, an illustrated cloth bound vol
ume OF ,02 pages, is issued as a congress
Nonal publication, and a limited number
of copies are assigned to each senator.
representative and delegate in Congress
for distribution among his constituents.
The department has no copies for gen
eral distribution, its quota being required
for its employees and such outsiders as
cooperate in its work.
tuberculosis in it's various aspects is
the subject of three articles. DR. A. d.
Melvin, the chief of the bureau, in con-
sidering the economic importance of this
disease among the d-producing ami
mails, estimates that the financial loss
from this cause is at least $4,000, 600 an
nually. DR.. E. c. Schroeder. superintend-
ent of the bureaus experiment station,
points out the danger from the tubercu-
lous cow to human health.
Illustrations Supplied.
His paper Is accompanied by number
of striking illustrations showing cows OF
fine appearance which are really affected
with tuberculosis and giving off the
germs Of that disease in such a way as to
be dangerous to consumers of their milk.
Drs. John r. Mohler and Henry J. Wash
burn of the pathological division have a
paper dealing with the causation and
character of animal tuberculosis and fed
eral measures for its repression.
Three diseases of live stock about
which little has heretofore been known
namely, infectious anemia or swamp
fever of horses. mycotic lymphangitis Of
horses and chronic bacterial dysentery
of cattle-are described in an article by
DIR. John r. Hohler. An article by DR..
R. ]. Formal presents the results Of ap
investigation as to the damage caused to
the livestock industry by smelter fumes
In the Deer Lodge valley of Montana. DR..
b. III. Ransom describes methods Of pre-
venting losses from stomach worms IN
sheep. The results Of experiments to de-
termine the length Of time that typhoid
bacilll will remain alive in milk and but
ter are given in an article by DR.. Henry
j. Washburn.
Animal Industry Of Argentina" gives
information about that country, which
is q growing competitor with the Unit
ed States for the English meat trade.
In a paper on Improved Methods for
the Production of Market Milk by Or
binary Dairies' Messrs. c. E. Lane and
Karl E. Parks describe simple and In
expensive methods within the reach OF
the average dairyman by which clean
and wholesome milk may be produced.
Foot-and-Mouth Disease.
The outbreak of foot and-mouth dis
ease which appeared in November and
December, 1908, among live stock in
Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and
Maryland is described in a paper BY
DR.. A. d. Melvin. After a few months
of vigorous work by federal and state
officers the disease was eradicated at
an expense of over 100000 to the De-
partment OF Agriculture and about
S113,000 to the states.
The history OF an importation OF Nal
tese goats by the Department OF A2-
riculture a few years ago and de
scription of Malta fever are presented
in an article by Drs. John r. Mohler
and George III. Hart. The goats, which
were imported with view to building
up a mich goat industry in this coun-
try. were found to be affected by Malta
fever, a disease which prevails to q
considerable extent among people as
well as goats on the Island Of Malta
and other places on the Mediterranean.
After keeping the goats under strict
quarantine for some time it was finally
considered necessary to destroy them
all.
Some of the articles in the report
phlet form and can be obtained in this
form on application to the Department
of Agriculture.