The two types of gall, bacterial and nematode, present in parasitized annual ryegrass were easily distinguished by dissecting microscope. Sufficient of each type were hand-sorted for feeding experiments with chickens and guineapigs. The contents of representative galls were checked microscopically, ...

Research on infectious diseases, particularly of cattle, due to viruses. bacteria and internal parasites is mainly conducted at the Animal Health Research Laboratory, Parkville, Melbourne and that on parasites and bacterial diseases of sheep at the McMaster Laboratory, Glebe, Sydney. The Veterinary ...

Bovine VIBRIOSIS was studied to assess the value of vaccination and to record the events leading to infertility. V. fetus cultures were introduced into the vagina a year before heifers came to first service to determine whether immunity will develop from such an exposure. A killed culture was used...

VIBRIOSIS is a serious cause of infertility in dairy herds in Victoria and TRICHOMONIASIS is less important. In Tasmania vibriosis has been diagnosed in a number of herds. Brucella ovis infection was more readily set up by injection into the teat canal than by i/v or ocular inoculation. Only when...

The cattle population was 3, 057, 372 consisting of European and indigenous stock in the proportion 2: 3.
An outbreak of ANTHRAX at Salisbury caused 56 deaths among cattle and six Africans contracted the disease through eating meat from infected carcasses. 7, 220 cattle were vaccinated and a...

Brucella abortus Strain 19 injected into rams by various routes persisted in the seminal vesicles. Antibodies from such sheep fixed complement in the presence of Br. ovis antigen. VIBRIOSIS is a major cause of infertility in dairy herds. Vaginal mucus agglutination was the best diagnostic test. ...

The investigations of the Glenfield Veterinary Research Station comprised artificial insemination, BRUCELLOSIS in pigs, BOVINE MASTITIS, mortality in cattle, and poultry diseases.
A cattle unit has been in operation for a year and 340 cows have been inseminated. It was found that semen quality...

During the year agreements were entered into between the states of N.S.W. Victoria and South Australia in order to achieve greater freedom of interstate traffic in livestock and animal products.
Statistics are given for the overseas quarantine and interstate traffic in livestock.
CONTAGIOUS BOVINE...

STAFF.-There has been, and is, considerable difficulty in securing the services of a sufficient number of veterinarians for appointment, but it is anticipated that in a year or two a larger number of men will be forthcoming from the veterinary school of Sydney University. At present the Veterinary...

I-IV Gerlach reports the isolation and cultivation of virus bodies from various animal and human tumours. Injections of cultures of the organisms were capable of initiating neoplasia in a small number of animals. Staining with Victoria blue of direct tumour smears or of smears of cultures, and...