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pleuro-pneumonia is. known to have existed should be examined 
by and receive a certificate of health from the State Veterinarian ; 
but a ten days’ quarantine is wholly valueless, so far as this dis¬ 
ease is concerned, and the detention of cattle on the borders of 
the State for that length of time will only serve as an annoyance 
and expense to the owners, without serving any useful purpose in 
protecting the cattle owners of the State. 
Nothing short of a three-months quarantine is at all effective 
against the introduction of pleuro-pneumonia, and experience has 
shown that the disease may remain latent in the system for a 
longer period and then develop actively. A large portion of all 
the territory in the States named is free from the least suspicion 
of pleuro-pneumonia, which makes the sweeping terms of the 
proclamation appear unreasonable.— Farmers ’ Review. 
Pasteur’s Method Commended by a Belgian Commission.— 
The commission appointed by the Belgian government to experi¬ 
ment on Pasteur’s method of protecting cattle and sheep from 
anthrax by inoculation with the attenuated virus have published 
their report. They find, from very numerous vaccinations which 
have been performed at Herve since the spring of 1883, on farms 
where anthrax breaks out every year, that Pasteur’s method pre¬ 
serves both sheep and cattle from the disease. No case of 
anthrax has been observed among a thousand fully-grown cattle 
which have been vaccinated, while the non-vaceinated have died, 
ns usual. As regards the duration of the protective influence, it 
has been found to be one year for young animals in the propor¬ 
tion of ninety per cent, and at least two years for all mature 
animals. They confirm Mr. Pasteur’s statement that places 
where animals which have died of anthrax have been buried are 
dangerous, the soil retaining the germs.— Science. 
Assistant State Veterinarians (Illinois). —The third section 
of the recently enacted law in relation to the suppression and pre¬ 
vention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases among' 
domestic animals, provides that, in the event of the inability of 
the State Veterinarian to perform all the work which he may be 
directed to do by the Board of Live-Stock Commissioners, he 
