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istics. It is surrounded with something of a mystery which can¬ 
not be understood from our knowledge of other diseases. There¬ 
fore when we work upon this disease we are to some extent in 
the dark. We have not the light of other investigators to lead 
us in solving the different questions which come up. 
Another thing which is important: We claim in our investiga¬ 
tion that by cultures which we have made in recent years we have 
been unable to get any growth, any germ whatever in our cultures. 
Others claim they have been able to get cultures. The methods 
are somewhat different. It is for those who look over these in¬ 
vestigations and study them, who endeavor to understand the na¬ 
ture of the diseases, one worker get cultures and another cannot. 
Dr. Paquin spoke of Dr. Smith’s work, or Dr. Clement’s conclu¬ 
sion from it rather, and he throws out the insinuation that the ma¬ 
terial which we have had and studied has been very limited. This 
is a mistake. For four years we have studied that disease during 
the whole season in which it exists. We have brought cattle to 
our experimental station from North Carolina, where the Texas 
fever is prevalent, and we have put them on our experimental sta¬ 
tions and have produced as many cases as we could possibly study 
during one season. We have had another advantage over Dr. 
Paquin in that we have had more men to help us in this work. 
We have had several men in the laboratory to keep our cultures— 
to make our cultures,we have men to make our microscopic exam¬ 
inations, and we have had men at the experimental station to 
watch the animals and observe symptoms. We have so divided 
our force as to get as much assistance as possible from the differ¬ 
ent workers. Therefore I claim we have made as many observa¬ 
tions and as carefully as it was possible to make from any one 
point of work. 
Now I want to say a word in regard to germs. Dr. Paquin has 
been extremely liberal in his remarks in regard to the discovery 
of the germ of Texas fever, even giving me credit for having dis¬ 
covered the germ years ago, which I described in a report to the 
Department of Agriculture back in 1880. That was the form of 
germ which lie also described. Now, I must disclaim any credit 
for the discovery of this germ which I described at that time; and 
