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posed to put them in the best possible condition for 
Withstanding the disease. Under this plan it was 
^ound that tlie vast majority came through the com- 
plaint, and were never afterwards liable to its inva- 
sion. But gjyg important result in our au- 
^I'ors own words. “ The Iieneficial results are too 
^mportant to our farmers that they shonlii ever be 
'nduced to give up this easy method of saving 
'-I'eir stock. They had remarked that calves dropt 
'>y cows which had undergone the distemper, had in 
Seneral far less violent attacks as the results of the 
'ooculation ; and that they recovered in much 
gfeater numbers than tlie calves of other cows. Con- 
then, the experiment to this class, under tliis 
‘^ctnbination of circumstances, the disease was so 
"^*1(1, that tlie fiirmers often doubted if the calves, 
^hough inoculated, really underwent the disease. 
have sometimes myself inoculated between two 
^nd three score at a time, and observed the calves 
disporting themselves gaily in the stable-yard. Those 
them which were most seriously affected, would 
Withdraw for a time, but speedily returned, and thus 
'ey all passed safely tlirough the disorder, so that 
^caicely one in a hundred perished. Sometimes, 
'"deed, it happened, that when the inoculated dis- 
ease Was not well marked, or where perhaps the 
operation had altogether failed, these calves were af- 
terwards unexpectedly seized with the disorder, and 
>etame its victims, while feeding with herds which 
Were infected by it. Tliis liability, alike prejudicial 
