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15. Have you observed that sex or age exerted any influence 
or against hog cholera ? 
16. Ho you know anything surely as to whether hogs that 
se had cholera will again have it the next year if again in the 
:d, if allowed to live ? 
Anthrax.—Inoculation the Prophylactic Treatment.— 
e veterinary (?) columns of our agricultural papers have been 
^ely occupied of late with the subject of anthrax, and many 
;ent inquiries and anxious suggestions have been propounded 
ching the best course to be adopted for the protection and pre* 
nation of such cattle as may be threatened or have been at- 
ked by any of the forms of that disease, and reports are pub- 
led, more or less reliable, of its appearance more or less exten- 
aly in several States of the Union. These facts should excite 
surprise, for the state of things now existing is but a repeti- 
i of the experience of other years at seasons corresponding 
h the present. 
There is, however, much that is surprising in the recommen- 
ions and suggestions of many of the writers who have dealt 
h the subject in the agricultural papers—which, nevertheless, 
do not intend specifically to criticize. 
We do not wish to disparage the wisdom or to ignore the ben- 
s that may be derived from some of the modes of treatment 
t are thus recommended, but in admitting that they have in 
le instances been followed by success, there is no doubt that 
the majority of cases they have not only failed to cure, but 
r e never succeeded in preventing the extension of the disease. 
3 an acknowledged fact, and has been for years established he¬ 
ld doubt, that there is but one right way to deal with the vari- 
forms of anthrax, that there is but one means of checking its 
usion, and that is by inoculation. We have frequently called 
attention of our readers to the value of the prophylactic treat- 
it, but our warnings have been ignored or unheeded. Among 
few who have put this sovereign measure successfully to the 
', on ly Hr. Faust, of Poughkeepsie, so far has kindly furnished 
vith his report of the results he has obtained. Our limitations 
>pace will not allow us to publish this month his report of his 
