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The No. 7 of tlic latter breed, and the No. 6 of the former, were reserved. 



Two of tli<' Ardennes cows were siieeessfnlly iiioenlated, Nos. 5 and 6, havinj; been iso- 

 lated iu a stable, cohabited from the •24tli of September with pneumonic beasts. When it 

 was certain that the operation had had a negative result ufton the Ardennes cow No. 

 7, and after the cicatrization of the puncture, the same locality was assigned to it, on 

 the 1st of October, for abode. 



The ox No. 2, from Tirlemont, entered there on the 23d of October, and the heifer No. 

 6 on the 25th of the same month. 



A third inoculation performed on the 18th of November, upon the beasts from Tirle- 

 mont, Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8, was not more efficacious that the preceding. 



From the 24th of September, the date of the experiment, there has only occurred a 

 first space of one day, and a second of eight, during which the stable has not contained 

 pneumonic beasts; the number of the cattle has varied from one to three. Up to this 

 day the three inoculated beasts, and the two upou which the inoculation was unsuc- 

 cessful, have experienced no attack from the cohabitation with iirfected animals. 



Two aged cows, inoculated by M. Willems, at Hasselt, entered the same locality on 

 the 15th of November. 



On the 28th of September, two of the Ardennes beasts, Nos. 3 and 8, were dispatched 

 to Tirlemont to be placed in infected stableS there, by the care and under the superin- 

 tendence of M. Windeliucx. 



A third experiment, intrusted to M. Dele, has been organized at Deurne, in the prov- 

 ince of Antwerp. The superior of the abbey of La Trappe has been jileased to place 

 at the disposal of the commission, for this purpose, two heifers belonging to the com- 

 munity, and which were inoculated with the least equivocal success, on the 27th of 

 May, 1852. 



On the 30th of October the Ardennes beasts Nos. 1, 2, and 4 were conducted to Huy, 

 where a fourth experiment is being carried out imder the superintendence of MM. Mar- 

 cojjs and Gn^rin. 



Not oue of the animals inoculated, successfully or unsuccessfully, has contracted exu- 

 dative pleuro-pneumonia. 



While these experiments were going on, fifty-four veterinary surgeons, 

 inchuling Dr. Willems, inoculated 5,301 head of cattle. They consisted 

 in — 



Beasts fattening 2, 732 



Lean oxen or milch cows 2, 189 



Calves and young cattle «^80 



Total 5, 301 



Beasts living in healthy stables 2, 330 



Beasts living in infected stables 2, 971 



Total 5, 301 



Beasts successfully inoculated 4, 324 



In healthy stables 2, 030 



In infected stables 2, 294 



Total 4? ^24 



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Eighty-six, including eleven beasts inoculated in the dewlap, died 

 from the consecpiences of the inoculation. 



