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breed nor liave anything to do with, the 

 germs of infantile paralysis. The same is 

 true of the germs of grippe, and of the 

 germs of syphilis. They are as widely sep- 

 arated as the elephant is from the giraffe in 

 larger animals. 



None of us appreciate the power or the 

 rapid action and movement of germs. As 

 an illustration, a scourge of abortions, or, 

 as we breeders term them, "slips," visited 

 the various stock farms of our district three 

 years ago. These slips seemed to be abso- 

 lutely painless and to have no injurious 

 after-effects. I have seen a mare, while 

 peacefully grazing, apparently, uncon- 

 sciously slip her colt ; and 26 others in the 

 same paddock did likewise. 



Science was called to our aid, and we dis- 

 covered, at last, the "slip-bug," bacillus 

 abortive equinno, that produced these con- 

 tagious abortions. It was isolated and 

 grown in gelatine and the State of Ken- 

 tucky today is spending a fortune to dis- 

 cover a germ that will kill the "slip-bug" 

 germ. 



There, on my desk right from the labora- 



