D. E. SALMON. 
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law is thrown upon the Commissioner. He is to act on his ow 
will and judgment. The power to purchase and kill disease 
animals is practically unlimited. Both committees having agiec 
upon the compromise, there is little doubt that both Houses wi 
ratify it, and the President will sign it. The bill has met wit 
considerable opposition, much of this due, doubtless, to the ma 
ner in which the work of the bureau has been conducted in tl 
past and the character of some of the men connected with it. 
radical change in this respect is needed to secure the hearty su 
port which public measures of this kind should have.— Nationi 
Live Stock Journal. 
WHY PASTEUR’S VACCINE FAILS TO PREVENT HOG 
CHOLERA.* 
By D. E. Salmon. 
{Continued from 'page 183.) 
This communication will be devoted to a further consider 
tion of the difference between the leading characteristics of tl 
French disease called rouget , for which Pasteur’s vaccine is pr 
pared, and the American hog cholera. 
3d. Results of feeding with organs of diseased animals.- 
Feeding the organs of hogs which have died of hog cholera 
healthy swine has a most, marked and fatal effect, if the healtl 
animals have not previously acquired immunity by exposure 
the contagion. As this fact is contested by some gentlemen w 
have given the subject u much thought and attention,” but who 
facilities for observation appear to have been very limited, I gi 
below a list of animals fed with contagious material, most 
organs of dead hogs, from November 18 to March 22, in our t 
periments at Washington. I would particularly commend this till 
to the kind and careful consideration of Mr. D. L. Thomas, w 
claims the distinction of being “ the first to take a public stir 
that healthy hogs will not take swine plague from dead hog' 
The animals fed were selected in most cases from herds that h 
Reprint from the Breeder s' Gazette , May 20, 27, June 3, 10, 1886. 
