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lated and afterward taken into the infected district without 
innch danger. Our experiments have not been very extensive, 
but of eleven inoculated cattle taken into the infected district 
all lived, while of five that were not inoculated four died and 
the fifth barely recovered. This inoculation should be prac¬ 
ticed about November at the animals’ home in the North. It 
is made by injecting under the skin from 8 to lo c. c. (from two 
to two and a half drams) of the blood of an animal from the 
infected district. This causes a mild attack of fever, but the 
animals soon recover and then have considerable immunity. 
Of course in selecting the animal from which the blood is drawn 
for inoculating purposes we should know that it was from the 
infected district and that it had been infested with ticks. Other¬ 
wise it might have come from some section that was not in¬ 
fected, in which case its blood would be of no use for inoculat¬ 
ing purposes. Once having secured such an animal it may be 
retained indefinitely, as the blood seems to retain the virulence 
during the life of the animal. The inoculated cattle should not 
be sent South until they have fully recovered, that is, not until 
two or three months have elapsed. I have no doubt but that 
this method will prove successful in making cattle sufficiently 
insusceptible to splenetic fever to permit their being taken to 
the infected district with comparatively small loss. The ex¬ 
periments have not yet been conducted on a very large scale, 
and the method may no doubt be made more perfect in the 
future, but sufficient has been done to indicate its usefulness. 
One of the best substances which has been tested for destroy¬ 
ing ticks on the skin of cattle is the petroleum product known 
as paraffine or lubricating oil. It kills the ticks without caus¬ 
ing much irritation of the skin. If this oil cannot be obtained 
cotton-seed oil or lard oil or sulphur ointment may be used, and 
if applied often enough will keep the cattle free from the para¬ 
sites. D. H. Salmon. 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
WILL WEAR STRIPES. 
DR. SIX, THE NOTORIOUS BIGAMIST, SENTENCED TO CHESTER 
PENITENTIARY. 
Springfield, Ill., Oct. 6, 1897.—Dr. William Six pleaded 
guilty, in the Sangamon circuit court, to the charge of bigamy, 
and was given an indefinite sentence, under the new law, to 
Chester penitentiary. 
