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parts of tlie State where tlie disease is now prevalent, and I suhmit tliat tiie 

 splendid results above given demand that a fair and extensive trial be made. In 

 a large part of Indiana, namely, where there is natural gas, the experiment will 

 cost but little either in money or trouble, and if it is efficacious as it seems to have 

 been in this one case, to arrest the progress of the disease after it breaks out in the 

 drove, it will very I'ichly repay the expense and trouble in every part of the 

 cjuntry. The ([uestion does not alone concern the farmer whose hogs die ; it is 

 the policy of many raisers to sell fattening hogs as soon as the disease breaks out, 

 and there can be no question that much diseased meat is every year on the general 

 market. 



Prof. Noyes, of the Hygienic Laboratory of Ann Arbor, writes me, under date 

 of December 20th, that he does not know of any expei-imentation on a large scale 

 along this line. He has, I know, given much attention to the diseases, and would 

 be likely to know of such experiments if they had been made. Both the general 

 government and the governments of several of the States are spending large sums 

 of money at experiment stations for the arrest of this disease. The results so far 

 reached, interesting from a scientific standpoint, are useless in the field because of 

 the skill and expense which the application of the remedies requires. The pur- 

 pose of presenting this paper here is to secure, if possible, the co-operation of a 

 hundred stock-raisers in different parts of the State, and difTerently surrounded, 

 that a demonstrative test of this simple remedy may, in the next twelve months, 

 be had. The animals experimented upon must be isolated from all sources from 

 which they can obtain drink, and given only water to drink which has just been 

 boiled ; it should be served as hot as the hogs will drink it in clean troughs. Caij- 

 we secure these experiments tried in this way. Six dips in Jordan and one iia 

 Parphar will be no experiment at all. It would be worth while for us to show.,, it. 

 we can, that on the White River, also, the simple is the sublime. 



Tiife "tioipiKms SeAsIIde Laboratory'' at Pacific Grove, Cal. By B. M. 

 Davis. 



[AliStRACT.] 



The gr^dl variety in faWHa artd tflora, both in inhuul and marine forms, make 



the Pacific Slope and C3oast, pai-tkularly that included in California, attractive 



to naturalists. As sodn as Dr. Oliver P. .Jenkins and Dr. Chas. H. Gilbert took 



their places in the ^tAnfotd faculty they recogniaed the resources of the cQasl« 



from the standpoint of biologists. They immediately began to consider ;vi!aus f^ 



'establishing a biologica'l "^tatJioiK on the coast, and, after a fcareful '*' ^^ 



Vkole coast, decided 'oift fPacific'-JSrove as the best location TU« ^ ' ^^ 



-''•e first .substantial 



