Report of the Secretary of Agriculture ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893
 

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Página 85 - An act for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals...
Página 365 - Fruits that shall swell in sunny June, And redden in the August noon, And drop when gentle airs come by, That fan the blue September sky; While children come, with cries of glee, And seek them where the fragrant grass Betrays their bed to those who pass, At the foot of the apple tree.
Página 86 - Wash the cars and the feeding and watering troughs with water until clean. (c.) Saturate the walls and floors of the cars and the fencing, troughs and chutes of the pens with a solution made by dissolving four ounces of chloride of lime to each gallon of water, or disinfect the cars with a jet of steam under a pressure of not less than fifty pounds to the square inch.
Página 96 - Washington for examination, the lesion was evidently not extensive, the connective tissue bands were only moderately distended, the coagulated lymph could be easily picked from the meshes in little masses from the size of a pin head to that of a pea, the hepatization was very slight, and the tissue of the affected lobules still quite spongy, while the thickening of the pleura was scarcely more than visible.
Página 112 - Cattle from the permanently infected territory, though otherwise healthy, carry the micro-parasite of Texas fever in their blood.
Página 55 - No. 4. Some Physical Properties of Soils in Their Relation to Moisture and Crop Distribution. By Milton Whitney.* Pp.
Página 86 - The losses resulting yearly to the owners of susceptible cattle, both in the interstate and export trade, by the contraction of this disease from exposure in unclean and infected cars and pens, and by means of the manure carried in unclean cars from place to place...
Página 92 - ... younger children. At what age such stimuli lose their potency in producing fear is not known. Nor is it known whether less placid children ever lose their fear of them. This probably depends upon the training the child gets. It is well known that children eagerly run to be tossed into the air and caught. On the other hand it is equally well known that in the adult fear responses are called out quite clearly by the sudden removal of support, if the individual is walking across a bridge, walking...
Página 82 - No case has occurred in the State of New York since April 30, 1891, a period of more than one year and four months. No case has occurred in the State of New Jersey since March 25, 1892, a period of six months, and no case has occurred in any other portion of the United States within the past five years. I do therefore hereby officially declare that the United States is free from the disease known as contagious pleuropneumonia.
Página 86 - The cars used to transport such animals, and the pens in which they are fed and watered, and the pens set apart for their reception at points of destination, shall be disinfected in the following manner: (a) Remove all litter and manure. This litter and manure may be disinfected by mixing it with...

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