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WILLIAM DOUGHERTY. 
animals I inoculated with this lymph swelled near the seat of 
inoculation in three or four cases to an alarming extent. 
About July 28th the State Board of Health had appointed 
Joseph H. Powell “ Special Inspector,” and gave him authority 
to employ two veterinarians to inoculate in the infected dis¬ 
trict. Commencing my services for the State on the morning 
of July 29th and concluding them on September 6th, I inocu¬ 
lated 598 cattle, 252 horses, and 35 mules, making a total for 
State of 885 animals, and in all a total of 1,227. Nearly all of 
these were inoculated with the second lymph twelve days 
after the first inoculation. A few of the more ignorant and 
superstitious would not allow the second inoculation. It was 
not compulsory, the State generously offered it to them free 
and they were not urged to accept. 
Whether the disease is anthrax or not makes little differ¬ 
ence to the owners ; what they want is a'remedy to save their 
stock, their only means of livelihood in many cases, and Pas¬ 
teur’s anthrax lymph, from a crucial test, seems to answer the 
purpose. I have no means of knowing how many head of 
horses, mules, and cattle have died in the last outbreak, but 
believe about two hundred head of animals (a low estimate) 
have succumbed. As to the origin of this disease, nothing is 
positively known, the theory, or the one most accepted is, 
that it was imported with hides from Russia into Delaware, 
the refuse from the tanneries being used as a fertilizer. Cat¬ 
tle were thrown into the Delaware bay and carried by the 
tides to the New Jersey shores, where the disease first made 
its appearance, near the marshes and low lands covered by 
tide water. 
NEW FROST SHOES. 
By William Dougherty, D.V.S., Baltimore, Md. 
In presenting the frost shoes for consideration to the pro¬ 
fession, the object is to note the advantages they possess over 
the old style, particularly in northern climates, where winters 
are severe, and which consequently would necessitate quite 
