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Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 767, 29 September 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)

An UnPihmon Ohjwt on.—lt is not of ten that objection is taken to apme m bosLapeufiouay, but a case in point was meutioiied at Uio meeting of be Cbristcburcb Society for f g of Cruelly to Annuals. Iho wuoiy ottered prizes for the be*t kept and bes treated couch horns, nud the surprise o he secretary, Mr M. Murphy, may be Erded 1 af .donation to the Setv's fuuds-the ether guinea having been given to the driver of the o»aon. Speaker explained that he did not anorove of money prizes, as they only S those who L not win them envious nor did they' encourage drivers to treat ?heii animals kindly nothing but oonafent tSpS would do* that A member of the society mentioned that in Austral a medals were presented in such cases, and were moTe prized and better than money prizes. :, k .. mooting of the council of the .Kayal An cultural Society, the following resolu fifn wa paV:-by the Veterinurv Committees The commitee consider i desirable that the public should be warned that the process of pasteurisation, which consists in raising the milk for a period more or less prolonged to a temperature of about 150 degFahr.' cannot be relied upon to remove all danger from tuberculous milk as an article of food for either men or animals. In the experiments which have been carried out oi late years, two facts have been brought to light-that rawing infected milk to boiling point renders it perfectly harmless; the other, that raising such milk to a temperature not exceeding 17deg Fahr., leaves it still in a dangerous con. dition, and capable of infecting animals. Ihe report of the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis is conclusive upon this point. Whilst, however, boiling milk may be looked upon as the safest method of securing the end in new it has been held by good authorities that, a temperature of ISSdeg Fahr. is sufficient for the purpose if maintained for a period oflo minutes. But this view modified by the recent experiments of Gainer (Journal de Medicine Veterinaire, January, 1900), who claims to have killed guinea pigs with tuberculous milk after exposure to a temperature of 185 deg Fahr. for six minutes. In any case, no temperature less than 185 deg Fahr. can be looked upon as safe. A New* Bot Destroyer A story comes from America anent a sure and certain moans of detaching bote from the liuiug of the stomach of a horse. A gentleman in Georgia took a notion that he would try a few tests upon a quantity of live bots taken from a horse which died from a superabundance of Ihein. He first tried all the remedies he had heard of, but most of them had no effect. When put into sage tea they died in 15 hours, but as that was too slow a process, he tried them in nitric acid ; but it seemed to trouble them no more than water. Ho then bruised some tansy, and made an infusion of the juice and put some of the bots into it. They were dead in a minute. As he had a horse suspected of being troubled with bots, he gave .him some tansy tea in the morning, and a dose of salts in the evening. Ihe next morning the horse's duug contained three half pints of bots. If this statement be true, and it should be reliable, as it is published by the United States Department of Agriculture, we have at last an effective cure for horse bots, which should have been worth an immense sum to the discoverer if he had patented it instead of making it known. The tansy plant is a native of Britain, and the Continent of Europe, and is very common in gardens there. The common tansy (Tanaoetum vnlgoro) i" probably also well-known to many readers ot these notes. It is a phut with a sweet smell, but very bitter taste, having small button shaped 'yellow flow era. If it proves to be the case that a tansy decoction, which can be so simply and cheaply made, is an effective euro for bote, it will noon be iu the market all ready, prepared and bottled and it may bo that the tansy plant will have to be eulivated in order to supply the demand. In year? gone by tansy was much used in medicin-1 preparations, also in culinary operations as a flavouring ingredient in cakes and puddings. Tansy wine and tansy tea are popular among village doctors as a stomachic.