INOCULATION FOR PLEURO-PN EUMONIA. 581 
9. On the 8th of December, I inoculated 36 beasts belong- 
ing to M. Boudon. 
10, 11, 12, 13, 14. 
15. Lastly, on the 23d and 24th of the same month, 106 
animals of M. Tournadre were submitted to inoculation. 
These several amounts constitute a total of 855 animals, 
belonging to different land-holders, on whose farms the 
epizootic had made more or less considerable ravages. The 
success of inoculation proved in every case complete, save 
some trifling accidents happening at a time when inoculation 
was too far advanced. 
In the face of similar facts equally varied and numerous, 
of which the greater part are established by a considerable 
lapse of time, can any reasonable doubt remain of the pre- 
servative property of pleuro-pneumonic virus ? I do not 
think it. This question appears to me finally set at rest. 
This epizootic prevails uniformly with the same intensity. 
Every day it extends into the provinces of Cantal 
and Murat, or the great range of pasturage. Every spring 
induces a prodigious number of beasts from every province, 
and consequently keeps up between them very active inter- 
course, so that whenever a disloyal farmer perceives the dis- 
ease in his stables, he takes good care not to inform the 
municipal authority of it ; but, on the contrary, busies him- 
self to sell all such as still possess value, and whenever the 
disease breaks out at the house of the purchaser he, in his 
turn, acts the same, so that in this way the infection becomes 
more and more spread abroad. 
For the time to come breeders, having no longer the same 
interest in getting rid (at a low price) of their animals, will 
keep them. The disease, arrested by inoculation, will remain 
concentrated at some points, and little by little disappear for 
ever from our mountains. In order to arrive speedily at 
this result, it will suffice, I think, that a new administrative 
resolution modify the measures in force, regulating the intro- 
duction into fairs and markets of such proprietors alone, of 
animals who are known to have been sick, and not, as 
in the past, to every inhabitant of the commune where the 
epizootic may have an appearance ; which evidently is im- 
practicable. Thus, what has happened up to the present 
time ? why, that no one has paid attention to existing laws, 
and that contagion has spread with impunity over all the 
fields of the fair. 
I must be permitted once more to call the attention of 
M. le Prefet to another question touching the indemnity 
allowed by Government to the loss of beasts; does such 
