Abstract
DURING the past thirty years, the progress of agriculture in South Africa has been rapid, and probably the most striking advance has occurred in connexion with stock-farming. This rapid progress has been rendered possible by the control that has been gained over the numerous and serious animal plagues that formerly afflicted a large proportion of the country. South Africa owes much to the devoted work of some pioneer veterinarians, and especially the late D. Hutcheon, who, faced with a disease situation of great complexity and obscurity, carefully sorted out and dealt with the more familiar components of the mixture and studied the many unfamiliar forms, collecting all the facts and experiences known to the pioneer farmers and recording their own patient observations.
Animal Diseases in South Africa.
By Prof. M. W. Henning. (South African Agricultural Series, Vols. II and 12.) Vol. 1: Bacterial and Protozoal Diseases. Pp. xi + 406. Vol. 2: Virus and Deficiency Diseases, Plant Poisons. Pp. x + 407 878. (Johannesburg: Central News Agency, Ltd. London: Gordon and Gotch, Ltd., 1932.) 50s.
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A., W. Animal Diseases in South Africa. Nature 132, 424–425 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132424a0
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