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the previous summer, died near our Experiment Station (to 
which case I have already alluded), and was the means of caus¬ 
ing the death of a cow, a horse, and a mule belonging to the 
station. Every precaution was taken to prevent further disas¬ 
ter, such as cremation, thorough disinfection, and the inocula¬ 
tion of some 15 or 20 head of the remaining stock. And al¬ 
though the animals were turned back on the pasture about two 
weeks after immunity was established where the first case oc - 
curred, there has not been a suspicious case on the place since, 
a period of about sixteen months. 
The past summer the disease broke out in two wards of our 
parish. Strict attention was at once given to cremation or 
deep burial of the cadavers, as well as inoculation, and the dis¬ 
ease was checked in each instance, one ward losing probably 
ten animals before proper measures were adopted, the other ward 
losing one mule. 
A11 extensive land-owner and merchant of my acquaintance 
vaccinated this summer 127 head of mules after anthrax had 
broken out close to his property. I saw the animals about ten 
days after they had had the second lymph, and up to that time 
he hadn’t lost a single one. 
Dr. E. Pegram Flower, a graduate practising in the city of 
Baton Rouge, inoculated about 2400 animals, chiefly mules, the 
past summer in our State, and about 500 in the Mississippi 
Delta, all being exposed to infection, i. <s?., the disease was prev¬ 
alent all around the vicinity. His losses in Louisiana amounted 
to not more than one-quarter of 1 per cent., while in Mississippi 
only 7 animals out of the 500 died after inoculation was com¬ 
menced, notwithstanding the fact that over 100 died in the 
neighborhood previous to inoculation, the infection being of 
such a virulent character. 
In the summer of 1899 this same gentleman inoculated some 
1800 head of stock in our State, and with a loss of not over 1 
per cent., which seems to me to be a very satisfactory showing 
in favor of the use of the preventive vaccine. 
Perhaps the most convincing evidence of the beneficial effect 
