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to the reports of the French Scientific Commission on inocu¬ 
lation, in 217 communes in the northern department alone, 
during a period of nineteen years, they were as many as 
fifty-two millions. 
“ These disasters have naturally attracted the attention of 
the Council of the Central Society of Agriculture, who have 
thought it their duty to take the matter into their considera¬ 
tion ; and as such they resolved, on the 5th of December, on 
the proposition of Mons. T. Kint, of Naeyer, to appoint a 
committee to call upon persons who could furnish the 
necessary information; with a view to the obtaining correct 
and, in some degree, universal statistical returns of the 
different preventive means employed, and especially that of 
inoculation as introduced by Dr. Willems, which had been 
extolled since 1852, and the application of which to beasts 
has already been attended with great success. 
“To arrive at this end the committee has the honour to ask 
you to kindly reply to the following questions. The im¬ 
portance of the service which you will thus render to agri¬ 
culture is an assurance that your compliance will tend to 
promote the object, the elucidation of which is thus sought. 
The result to which the society arrives will, in due time, 
be communicated to you. 
“ Accept, sir, the highest expressions of our sentiments, &c. 
“Signed, Daumerie, President . 
“ Gustave Le Docte, Secretary P 
1. How long has pleuro-pneumonia existed in your stables 
or meadows, and in those of your neighbours? 
2. What preventive and curative measures have you had 
recourse to? 
3. What have been the results of the use of these different 
remedies ? 
4. Do you think pleuro-pneumonia contagious? 
5. Have you made use of the inoculation of the disease, 
after the plan of Dr. Willems? 
6. How many animals have been inoculated ? 
a. With success ? 
b. Without success ? 
7. Had the animals been in contact with diseased cattle 
before being inoculated? 
8. Of what ages were the inoculated animals ? 
9. What per-centage of the animals have died, or been 
injured, in consequence of the performance of the operation ? 
10. What per-centage of the animals have taken the 
malady after having been inoculated with success ? 
