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Report on Cattle Quarantine in Canada
Catlle Quarantine in' -Canada. REPORT ON CATTLE QUARANTINE IN CANADA. PROFESSOR D. MC EACHRAN, F.R.C .V. S., V.S. EDiN., D.V.S. MC GILL, CHIEF INSPECTOR.
MONTREAL, I lin January, 1897. SIR,-I beg herewith to inclose my annual report on the cattle quarantine service during the past year. This report being from the 1st November, 18Q5, to the 1st November, 1896, does not therefore refer to important changes which have taken place since that date. I have much pleasure in reporting that the staff of inspectors at Montreal, Quebec, St. John. Halifax, and other points, have discharged their duties satisfactorily. You will be pleased to note that another year has now gone past and no pleuro-pneumonia or any disease at all similar to pleuro-pneumonia has been discovered in Canadian herds. By referring to the report of hog cholera in the counties of Essex and Kent, Ontario, it is to be regrp.tted that this disease has been allowed to exist for a number of years, and spread over a considerable area of country, the full extent of which cannot be said to have been ascertained. I have much pleasure in reporting that so far as the districts in which the disease has been discovered are concerned, our methods of dealing with it have been eminently successful, and by continuing to deal with it in the same manner wherever it is discovered, I trust that in my next annual report I will be able to inform you that it has been entirely eradicated from Canada. I regret, too, that recent investigations have - exposed the existence of sheep scab in a somewhat extensive district in Ontario, but acting on your instructions, immediate and active measures will be taken for confining it to the infected areas, and eradicating the disease by effective methods. I beg to call your attention to suggestions made by me in my report with reference to urging the farmers to improve the standard quality of their beef cattle by the importation ot fresh blood, especially shorthorn bulls; also my recommendations to the horse breeders to recommence horse breeding from selected mares and stallions, being convinced from reliable information that in the near future horses will be scarce in Canada, and will return to their former value. I have the honour to be, sir, - Your obedient servant, The Honourable DUNCAN McEACHRAN. The Minister of Agriculture, Ottawa.
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The Veterinary Journal. A VETERINARY J.P.
MR. ALEXANDER LAWSON, of Manchester, was elected Chairman of the Ashton-upon-Mersey District Council, on the 27th oflast month, and qualified as a Cheshire County Magistrate the following week.
ELECTION OF COUNCIL. AN unfortunate error in the voting papers states that there are eleven vacancies, whereas there are only eight. All papers bearing more than eight votes will be wasted.
~agfS. NOTES BY A COUNTRY PRACTITIONER. Chrome Serou~ .Arthritz"s affec#ng the S#fle. IN districts such as mine where the land is low lying and subject to inundations, one pretty frequently meets with cases of distension of the synovial sac that helps the gliding of the patella on the trochlea of the femur. It mostly affects colts out at grass, and is commonest in wet seasons. The stifle is the seat of a diffuse, tense swelling, larger on the inside than on the outside; not painful, and giving rise to no lameness at first, but later on becoming sensitive to handling, and producing a difficulty in flexing the joint, the limb being carried forward with the stifle in extension and with a certain amount of circumduction. I have tried firing and blistering with very unsatisfactory results, and once, at the request of a client, I put a seton through the swelling with the result that the colt died a few weeks after. When it is remembered that, according to Chauveaa, there is nearly always a communication between the femora-tibial articulation and that of the femur and patella, one need hardly be surprised at such a result. The treatment which I have adopted for the last few years is to puncture the swelling, draw off the contents with an aspirator, and then inject into the sac a weak solution of iodine. This treatment I have found to be eminently satisfactory even in bad cases, where the tumour was large and the lameness considerable; and I have never known any ill results to follow. The strength of the solution is
MONTREAL, I lin January, 1897. SIR,-I beg herewith to inclose my annual report on the cattle quarantine service during the past year. This report being from the 1st November, 18Q5, to the 1st November, 1896, does not therefore refer to important changes which have taken place since that date. I have much pleasure in reporting that the staff of inspectors at Montreal, Quebec, St. John. Halifax, and other points, have discharged their duties satisfactorily. You will be pleased to note that another year has now gone past and no pleuro-pneumonia or any disease at all similar to pleuro-pneumonia has been discovered in Canadian herds. By referring to the report of hog cholera in the counties of Essex and Kent, Ontario, it is to be regrp.tted that this disease has been allowed to exist for a number of years, and spread over a considerable area of country, the full extent of which cannot be said to have been ascertained. I have much pleasure in reporting that so far as the districts in which the disease has been discovered are concerned, our methods of dealing with it have been eminently successful, and by continuing to deal with it in the same manner wherever it is discovered, I trust that in my next annual report I will be able to inform you that it has been entirely eradicated from Canada. I regret, too, that recent investigations have - exposed the existence of sheep scab in a somewhat extensive district in Ontario, but acting on your instructions, immediate and active measures will be taken for confining it to the infected areas, and eradicating the disease by effective methods. I beg to call your attention to suggestions made by me in my report with reference to urging the farmers to improve the standard quality of their beef cattle by the importation ot fresh blood, especially shorthorn bulls; also my recommendations to the horse breeders to recommence horse breeding from selected mares and stallions, being convinced from reliable information that in the near future horses will be scarce in Canada, and will return to their former value. I have the honour to be, sir, - Your obedient servant, The Honourable DUNCAN McEACHRAN. The Minister of Agriculture, Ottawa.
416
The Veterinary Journal. A VETERINARY J.P.
MR. ALEXANDER LAWSON, of Manchester, was elected Chairman of the Ashton-upon-Mersey District Council, on the 27th oflast month, and qualified as a Cheshire County Magistrate the following week.
ELECTION OF COUNCIL. AN unfortunate error in the voting papers states that there are eleven vacancies, whereas there are only eight. All papers bearing more than eight votes will be wasted.
~agfS. NOTES BY A COUNTRY PRACTITIONER. Chrome Serou~ .Arthritz"s affec#ng the S#fle. IN districts such as mine where the land is low lying and subject to inundations, one pretty frequently meets with cases of distension of the synovial sac that helps the gliding of the patella on the trochlea of the femur. It mostly affects colts out at grass, and is commonest in wet seasons. The stifle is the seat of a diffuse, tense swelling, larger on the inside than on the outside; not painful, and giving rise to no lameness at first, but later on becoming sensitive to handling, and producing a difficulty in flexing the joint, the limb being carried forward with the stifle in extension and with a certain amount of circumduction. I have tried firing and blistering with very unsatisfactory results, and once, at the request of a client, I put a seton through the swelling with the result that the colt died a few weeks after. When it is remembered that, according to Chauveaa, there is nearly always a communication between the femora-tibial articulation and that of the femur and patella, one need hardly be surprised at such a result. The treatment which I have adopted for the last few years is to puncture the swelling, draw off the contents with an aspirator, and then inject into the sac a weak solution of iodine. This treatment I have found to be eminently satisfactory even in bad cases, where the tumour was large and the lameness considerable; and I have never known any ill results to follow. The strength of the solution is