Congressional Serial Set, Tema 4831U.S. Government Printing Office, 1904 Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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Página 11 - Bureau, being regulations concerning the inspection and quarantine of horses, neat cattle, sheep, and other ruminants, and swine imported into the United States. Recent instructions have been given to United States consuls, however, by the Secretary of State, which have removed all misunderstanding as to the meaning of the term "ruminants." All hay-eating animals are not ruminants, but such only as regurgitate a portion of their food for rema.stication, or, as it is commonly stated, ''chew the cud.
Página 134 - ... Great Britain, less conservative than their mother country, have recently urged Great Britain to adopt the metric system. In August, 1902, the prime ministers of the colonies officially urged upon the Secretary of State the importance of adopting the metric system throughout the British Empire. At the Congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire, held in Montreal in August 1903, with delegates from all parts of the empire, a strong resolution was adopted concurring with this action...
Página 16 - Results obtained from vaccine distributed during the fiscal year ended June SO, 1903— Continued. From the above table it will be seen that 670 cattle died as result of mistakes admitted by the stock owners, while 107 animals died of blackleg within forty-eight hours after the injection, thereby indicating that these latter animals were affected with the disease prior to vaccination. In determining the value of blackleg vaccine it seems proper to deduct these numbers from the total number of deaths...
Página 15 - It is interesting to note from the second statement below that during the fiscal year 1903 over 1,000,000 doses of vaccine have been used and reported upon by over 10,000 persons with highly satisfactory results. The number of mistakes made may be accounted for by the number of persons making use of vaccine for the first time and their consequent unfamiliarity with its application. The appended tables give the quantity of blackleg vaccine distributed during the past year and the immunizing effects...
Página 53 - ... of the United States, for their use during the late war for the suppression of the rebellion, was transmitted...
Página 9 - Canadian animals, were 790,496 for cattle, 534,850 for sheep, and 3,293 for horses. As compared with similar figures for the fiscal year 1903, this statement shows an increase of 43.7 per cent in the number of American cattle exported and an increase of 116.5 per cent in the number of American sheep exported. The number of horses exported, however, was reduced by one- third. The percentage of loss in transit for the 360,990 head of American cattle landed at the ports of London, Liverpool, and Glasgow...
Página 35 - Tombigbee to form the Mobile it constitutes a 312-mile link in a waterway 815 miles long, from the Oostenaula and Coosawattee rivers, Georgia, to the Gulf of Mexico. The river was originally so obstructed by logs, snags, and overhanging trees, and shoals, many with depths of but 2.5 feet, that navigation was practicable by day only during the low-water season.