NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 435 
utch eagerly at this idea, which is advanced on professional 
ithority. In view of the fact that it is admitted c that pleuro- 
aeumonia is proving itself a much more trouhlesome malady to 
•adicate than cattle plague or foot-and-mouth disease,’ we think 
is somewhat injudicious to advise a remedy which, it is also 
pnfessed, ‘has never been thoroughly and publicly tested in this 
puntry.’ We want to get rid of the disease as fast as possible, 
id not to try experiments with systems of inoculation. It is 
lost desirable that in some scientific institution inoculation should 
e submitted to a thorough test, but our live-stock interests are 
>o valuable to allow experiments to be tried upon them.”— 
National Live-Stock Journal. 
Inoculation for Pleuro Pneumonia. —Dr. D. McEachran, 
ve-stock inspector for Canada, in a recent address before the 
Veterinary Medical Association, in Montreal, expressed his 
pinion on the danger and impracticability of inoculation to pre- 
ent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia, as follows : “ On this im¬ 
portant question, time does not permit me to enter at length 
o-night; suffice it to say that in every country in the world 
sdiere it has been impartially tried and reported on, the report 
las been unfavorable. It is not only a useless, but a dangerous 
| tractice, not only in districts where the invasion is new and litn- 
ted, and it is not warranted by any known benefits. Many die 
rom the operation itself, and wherever it is practiced it has to 
>e kept up; thus in large dairy byres in Scotland, in Glasgow, 
md Edinburgh, where the lives of the cattle are protracted by 
noculation, every fresh animal taken into it has to be inoculated ; 
lence we have a constant supply of the virus existing and kept 
ictive in these centers of disease. It is bad enough thus to per¬ 
petuate such a disease in countries where it has gained a foot- 
lold. Yet I wonder that the agriculturists of these countries 
lave not long ago risen as one man to demand that this iniquitous 
practice be made illegal. It is as incumbent on the government 
)f Great Britain to do this as it was to make inoculation with 
mall-pox virus illegal. What, then, would we say to those who 
would propose such a practice to save the lives, if possible by that 
means, which I doubt, of a few cattle, no matter what theii value 
