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In about a week the tumor began to diminish in size, and a 
small abscess formed at one of the points of injection.. This was 
opened, washed out with a weak solution of carbolic acid, and 
left to heal. Two weeks after the operation the tumor, had re¬ 
gained its usual size and consistency, but the opening into t m 
abdomen could no longer be found. The animal was now turned 
to grass, and I heard no more from him until to-day, when I learn 
he died about a month ago. A post-mortem examination, mac c 
by a farrier, is said to have revealed a tumor in the small intes¬ 
tine. at the point where the omentum was attached to the sac, 
nearly large enough to close the canal. The patient ran down m 
condition from the time of the operation until his death. 
THE DISSEMINATION OF TEXAS FEVER, AND HOW TO 
CONTROL IT, 
Hon. Geo. B. Loring , Commissioner of Agriculture : 
Sib : In accordance with your directions, I respectfully submit 
the following considerations in regard to the dissemination and 
prevention of splenic or Texas cattle fever, which have been sug¬ 
gested by Dr. Miller’s report of outbreaks in Ohio and West Vir- 
ginia. , . . 
In the first place, I would call attention to the fact that this is 
a disease with which the veterinary profession is not very familiar. 
The outbreaks, though frequent, have generally occurred m 1 10 
Southern, Southwestern, or Western States, in localities where, 
until very recently, there have been no veterinarians; and when 
these have happened at the North, the course of the disease has 
been so rapid that the professional man has had little opportunity 
to study its peculiarities before it had exhausted itself by the 
death of all the susceptible animals exposed to it. As a conse¬ 
quence, members of the profession at laige have not those clear 
ideas in regard to its origin, its dissemination, and the best means 
of suppressing it which we should expect had they been for a 
longer time in contact with it And for this reason, while the 
veterinarian who has had little experience with it may recognize 
it at once by the symptoms and the post mortem appearances, we 
