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NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
Dear Sir. —I would like to enter into a correspondence with 
some one that desires a location to practice. If you have any 
member of your fraternity that you think wishes a place, I would 
be much pleased to correspond with him. 
.Romeo, Mich. Albert Kennedy. 
NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
Inoculation as a Preventive of Swine Plague. —Mr. C. 
H. Walker, Surprise, Neb., ex-President of the Nebraska Im¬ 
proved Stock Breeders’ Association, contributes a letter to a 
western paper from which the following statements are taken : 
“1 have continued the practice [of inoculating as a preventive of 
hog cholera] with the same success so frequently reported to the 
public in former communications to various newspapers, and I 
shall continue it until I have reason to stop. In general, I have 
the same report to make as before. That is to say that inocula¬ 
tion is still practiced with success on my place. All the hogs 
that I have inoculated I have tested as soon as convenient after 
they have recovered and it has proved effective. I have had an 
experience that it might be well to relate, inasmuch as it demon¬ 
strates the importance of exactness in this business. Dr. Billings 
has always placed great stress on using the culture at the proper 
time, always urging that success would otherwise be defeated. 
Having been so fortunate with my inoculations, it is proper to 
state that I was ready to take a few chances on a little experi¬ 
ment of my own, and I resolved to see what the effect of this 
truck that the Doctor had pronounced worthless would be on the 
pigs, and to that end I inoculated a litter. I have got the ex¬ 
perience, and I am happy that the cholera has got so few of the 
pigs. The pigs inoculated with this culture are the only ones, 
with a single exception, that I have lost after their recovery from 
inoculation. I have another straw bearing on this subject. A 
neighbor who lost nearly all of his hogs in the fall purchased 
some sows that had passed through the cholera. He also bought 
a boar that had not. The boar, after being placed in his infected 
pens, took the cholera. As a neighborly act I loaned him one of 
mine that had been inoculated. This was about a month since. 
At this writing no complaint has been received. 
