Mycoplasma sp. was recovered from a herd of cows with high incidence of MASTITIS which did not respond to penicillin. In another herd, a slow growing organism similar to Streptococcus thermophilus was recovered. A survey was begun to deter-mine the point of entry of Salmonella spp. into meat meal....

During the year the eighth meeting of the Animal Husbandry Wing of the Board of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in India was held.
The I.C.A.R. continued the disease investigation schemes for cattle, sheep and goats and poultry in the various States. Search for a more satisfactory method of...

Brief references are made to work on inheritance of carcass quality, nutrition of breeding ewes, fecundity (attempts to increase fertility in ewes by injection of gonadotrophin before oestrus were unsuccessful), mammary gland development and KETOSIS in pregnant ewes.
Rats were used to study RICKETS ...

GENERAL.-The first section of this abridged report deals mainly with developments in the livestock industry following the start of military operations in East Africa. One of the chief difficulties was the provision of adequate cold storage, but this was being overcome. Control of supplies of fresh...

In middle Germany the incidence of " blackleg " and " para-blackleg " is peculiar. Bovine " blackleg " is a range disease and sheep in the same pasture remain unaffected, whilst ovine " blackleg " follows wound injury and is not related to the former. Bovine " para-blackleg " follows wound injury...

In June, 1937, the former " Animal Industry Division " of the Department of Agriculture became an autonomous " Veterinary Department ". The staff was reorganized, and now consists of the Director (Mr R. DAUBNEY), two Deputy-Directors (Mr E. J. MULLIGAN, field services, and Mr J. R. HUDSON,...

The staff consists of the Director, three Circle Superintendents, one Veterinary Investigation Officer, 17 Veterinary Inspectors, one Veterinary Overseer and 211 Veterinary Assistant Surgeons.
Cattle disease was less severe than in the previous year, but foot and mouth disease was wide-spread. No...

ARIZONA, 1941-42.-Bunyea's stained antigen was found equal to the slow tube method for the diagnosis of turkey PARATYPHOID. Attempts to find the cause of INFECTIOUS KERATITIS of cattle failed. A single treatment of range cattle with derris in soapy water was ineffective in control of WARBLE FLIES....

A report is given of the movements of the staff, the working of the estate at Muktesar, the production of biological products and the technical instruction given during the year. The main progress in research is discussed; the publica-tions of the staff are listed and the financial position is...

GENERAL.-The activities of the laboratory have been divided into three sections, Nutrition under CUNNINGHAM, Diagnosis under FITCH, and a section combining pathology, specific disease, parasitology etc. under the personal supervision of the Officer-in-Charge. The staff was augmented by the addition ...