{"product_id":"2940001094456","title":"Annual report","description":"Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.\u003cbr\u003eThis is an OCR edition with typos.\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from book:\u003cbr\u003eADDRESS. . PROF. LYMAN, MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: I have been asked to come here and give a talk today on the abortion of cattle, a disease which is possibly quite as prevalent as any disease we find among dairy animals. It is a disease that for a considerable time has not really been considered of such magnitude as it really is. Whether it is a disease that is more prevalent than tuberculosis I am not prepared to say but there is no question but that it causes fully as much loss in its methods of working through the herds, in the loss of calves and in the interruption of the milk supply. Contagious abortion has been known for a very long time and at the present time there is probably no possibility of disputing the fact that this is a disease among the dairy cows that is of a contagious nature. We understand, perhaps, different conditions in the line of abortion. The term abortion technically implies the loss of the young before the period when it can maintain a separate existence from the mother, and the young that is born at a period when it can maintain a separate existence and yet has not reached the full period of gestation is termed premature birth, but when it comes to a disease of contagious nature the line has to be drawn there; do not attempt to differentiate between premature birth and abortion. We simply call it infectious abortion; a disease transmissable from one animal to another, and through certain methods of its action we know it is a disease possible of conveyance. Of recent years there has been a good deal of study on the disease of abortion and there are even today a number of people who do not admit that there is such a thing as contagion in it. There are also a large number of cases where we fin...","brand":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172338254064,"sku":"2940001094456","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940001094456","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}