This very interesting little book has been written by an enthusiast who is also something of an iconoclast. The underlying thesis is that in the control of disease in livestock insufficient use is being made of breeding techniques designed to develop strains of animals resistant to various diseases ...

II. B. reviews the technique of Ostertag's method for the diagnosis of open tuberculosis which he saw in practice in Sweden, Germany and elsewhere. In the first place the methods of stimulating respiration for the purpose of revealing unnoticeable cough are described; of the five methods...

The number of fresh outbreaks during the year was eight and the mortality 798 head, as compared with five and 374, respectively, during the previous year. Eleven farms regarded as infected at the beginning of the year were released from quarantine, no case of the disease having occurred on any of...

The decision to hold an International Conference for the study of epizootic diseases, to sit in Paris, was made on thé initiative of the French Minister of Agriculture (M. RICARD) in October 1920. Forty-three States responded to the invitation, including Germany, United States of America,...