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tigators as far as I can ascertain. In taking advantage of all 
things it is well to conclude that actinomycosis is infectious by 
inoculation, and the discharges should be prevented from 
dropping over the fields, yards, and pastures. In many cases it 
renders the flesh of animals unfit for food, thereby causing 
thousands of dollars loss to the Western stockmen. 
In most cases it can be cured, but at best the treatment is 
expensive and ought to be cheapened. 
The kind of feed and season of the year has a very marked 
effect on the treatment of this disease. 
Lastly, this disease needs further investigation before our 
knowledge is complete. These investigations should extend 
over the entire change of seasons and be conducted on the 
stock farms of the Mississippi valley, in order to be of the most 
value to the stockmen, for here in the home of both host and 
hostess, and the conditions under which they both live, differ 
greatly from those obtained at the Western stock yards of 
Chicago. 
PUNCTURED WOUNDS. 
By S. H. Bauman, D.V.S., Dubuque, Iowa. 
A paper read before the Iowa State Veterinary Medical Association. 
In the limited experience I have had I have noticed that the 
majority of injuries we are called upon to treat in the country 
are lacerated wounds, due to too close proximity to barb wire 
fences, while in our city practice scarcely a day passes that we 
are not called upon to locate lameness, which the owner in¬ 
variably locates in the regions of the fetlock, shoulder or hips, 
but which we usually find to be the result of a punctured wound 
due to a nail prick. 
And we will say right here to the credit of the shoers that 
we have found very few cases where this was due to improper 
driving of the nails, but by horses picking up nails in the streets. 
I believe every city should have a strict ordinance, well en- 
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