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INOCULATING AGAINST TEXAS FEVER. 
As stated in The Star of April 20th, these experiments were 
to be undertaken in Southern Georgia, but thiough the efforts of 
Dr J M. McBugle, secretary of the Board of Control, Dr. Niles 
and Dr. Harbaugh, the Secretary of Agriculture diverted them 
to this place. . . „ 7 ni 
Arrangements have been made with Major Joseph Walker 
for the use of his sheds for the experiment. Mr. Walker fore¬ 
seeing the importance to the cattle industry of the successful 
outcome of the experiment, has placed every facility at the com¬ 
mand of the Doctor. 
It is well known, and has been a long accepted and sadly re- 
o-retted fact, that cattle cannot with safety be brought from the 
mountains from northern or neighboring counties in summer 
time, because they are nearly sure to die with the disease \ ari- 
ously called bloody-murrain, red-water, distemper, tick-fever, 
Texas-fever, splenic-fever, etc. > 
Bourteen of the cattle have been inoculated and have gone 
through a mild attack of the disease at Washington. These are 
brought here to learn if they are not proof against further at¬ 
tacks. The other four have not been inoculated, and may per¬ 
haps die. 
These cattle are all perfectly healthy and have been .since 
last fall, and have been under daily observation. They will be 
pastured upon the commons and treated exactly as all other cattle 
are in this region in order to subject them to precisely the same 
conditions that every cattle owner has to subject his new pur¬ 
chases. By this method only can the virtues of vaccination as a 
preventive against murrain be proven. The success of the 
vaccination experiments will enable cattle owners of the South 
to purchase vaccinated pure bred stock from any place to im¬ 
prove their herds with immunity from the disease. 
The sheds to the southeast of the barn have been fitted with 
troughs, partitions, scliute and stanchion and small office room 
and are now ready for the cattle which are daily expected.. 
In connection with these experiments, Dr. Curtice invites 
the assistance of dairymen in his studies of learning how to ex¬ 
terminate ticks most easily and cheaply. It is absolutely certain 
that ticks are a cause of the bloody murrain in cattle, therefore 
it is most necessary to remove them. Cattle which have carried 
ticks from calf hood never die, but adult cattle which never have 
had them die when first infested. The Doctor will visit neigh¬ 
boring farms and any aid in his task will be acceptable. He be¬ 
lieves 5 that with suitable measures taken to remove ticks, or to 
