Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1915 — The Diagnosis of Glanders [ARTICLE]

The Diagnosis of Glanders

The Department of Agriculture, in professional bulletin No. 166, recommends the use of ophthalmic mallein for the diagnosis of glanders. This test, It Is held, Is more accurate, easier of application, and gives results more Quickly than the other methods. As the same time, the use of this test odes not interfere in doubtful cases with subsequent serum or subcutaneous mallein tests. In considering the good results obtained and the advantages of this method of testing a concentrated malleln has been prepared for this purpose by the Bureau of Animal Industry, and this was made available to a number of practicing veterinarians who desired to give this method of testing a thorough trial. It has also been employed by inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry In their field work, and reports are accessible regarding its action for diagnostic purposes on more than 18,000 cases. The results from all sources were uniformly satisfactory. Practicing veterinarians who have given this method a trial have reported very favorably on the results, and the tests conducted by the bureau inspectors on several thousand animals were also satisfactory. The method has been applied here in Washington whenever possible, and recently in some immunizing tests of glanders conducted by the Bureau of Animal Industry there was a good opportunity to repeatedly employ this test. In all these instances the results were uniformly good. In cases of glanders there appeared a marked purulent conjunctivitis, and the reaction at (times was so severe that the animal* could not open its tested eye. The success off the test, the Department’s specialists; find, depends upon the degree of, concentration of the mallein. .The 'bulletin gives full details as to the preparation of concentrated mallein, Its application and the effect of f the ophthalmic test in healthy and pandered animals. The bulletin is technical and is designed primarily for veterinarians and state live stock sanitary authorities. A long raft containing one million feet of cedar, said to be the largest ever floated on the Pacific, recently made the trip from/British Columbia to Puget Sound. It* was 100 feet long and 70 feet wide; it! stood 15 feet out of the water and 20/feet under. As showing the possibilities for tree growth in regional where Irrigation has to be depended upon, it is pointed out that Boise, Idalia, has as many as 94 different kinds of ornamental and shade trees. Only-one modern sawmill is operated tat $he 'territory of Hawdjß. £ -■ t