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prevalent, but no anthrax. In 1874 the pasture was dressed with 

 8 cwt. crushed rock saU to the acre, and again in 1880 it got another 

 dressing, but no cases of red water or anthrax have been seen since 

 the salt was first applied. I have also seen a number of cases of 

 anthrax, the cause of which was set down to eating mouldy cotton 

 cake, particularly undecorticated, which should never be stocked 

 during the months of June to September, for it is very apt to mould 

 and is then highly dangerous. 



326. All the cases of anthrax which have come under my notice have 

 been distinctly traceable to some peculiarity in the food or pasture, 

 on changing which, the disease disappeared, and no more 

 cases occurred. Should, however, the flesh or blood of an animal, 

 dead of anthrax, be eaten by dogs, cats, poultry, &c., it rapidly 

 proves fatal to them ; while any man, having a wound on his 

 hand, when making a post-mortem of an anthrax subject is in great 

 danger of his life through inoculation. It is, therefore, a highly 

 inoculative disease ; hence, the carcase of an animal, the death of 

 which is attributed to anthrax, should be buried or burned at once, 

 without being opened. It is recorded that the germs of anthrax can 

 be brought from the buried carcase of a diseased beast by the aid of 

 the earth worm, the spores being left in the worm casts on the surface 

 of the ground, and by this means the ground becomes contaminated 

 and dangerous ; therefore great care and proper disinfection is 

 necessary in burying the body of an anthrax subject. Although 

 it is recorded that anthrax has been communicated experimentally by 

 inhalation, I have never yet met with this form of infection ; nor have 

 I ever known it to be transmitted from a diseased subject to a healthy 

 animal living in contact with one another under the same roof. 

 Neither have I known it to extend from one farm to another, except 

 by intermediate agents, such as utensils, people, &c., or by direct 

 inoculation or ingestion. Anthrax is under the Contagious Diseases 

 (Animals) Act. 



327. As already stated, this disease is due to the Bacilli Anthracis — 

 minute rod-like bodies ; yet experts say these httle organisms are 



