COMMUNICABLE ANIMAL DISEASES. 
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earth and in water, and that the adult is abundant in the 
neighborhood of swamps. Many points of interest crop up as 
to the various ways, besides inoculation, it is probable for the 
fly to propagate the disease. I do not think it is a settled 
point whether or not the disease kills the fly. It is probable 
that the excreta of the fly may contain bacilli which afterward 
sporulate on the grass or herbage which is eaten by stock, etc. 
^hese and other points are worthy of elucidation for the protec¬ 
tion and benefit of stock-owners, at all events, along the region 
of the Mississippi valley ; and if some means could be discov¬ 
ered for the destruction of the ova or larvae of this and other 
species of blood-sucking flies, it would be a tremendous boon to 
the inhabitants of my part of the world. 'This has been one of 
if not the most extensive outbreaks of anthrax on record, so far 
as I am aware, brought about by the external or cutaneous 
mode of infection. 
I feel, gentlemen, I have occupied a great deal too much of 
your valuable time with a paper which contains so little of a 
scientific nature, but, if I have by chance touched upon any 
subject which may be of interest or perhaps benefit to any of 
you, I feel fully compensated for any little time or trouble I 
have taken in its preparation. 
COMMUNICABLE ANIMAL DISEASES. 
By W. Herbert Lowe, D. V. S., Paterson, N. J. * 
A Paper read before the New Jersey State Sanitary Association, Dec. 12, 1896. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the New Jersey State Sanitary 
Association : 
The importance of the subject of communicable and infec¬ 
tious diseases of animals can hardly be overestimated if we con¬ 
sider the money value of the animal industry of this State, in¬ 
cluding the intrinsic value of the animals themselves for their 
respective kinds of service; the value of a wholesome and 
* former United States Veterinary Inspector of the Port of New York. 
