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fur Wissenschaftlich, Landwirthscliaft—Sachsen, 1877)“ It is a 
peculiar phenomenon, that the question of the value of pleuro- 
pneumonial inoculation cannot yet be considered as scientifically 
settled, although the same has been the subject of active and re¬ 
peated discussions at the meetings of veterinarians and agricul¬ 
turists. In the greater part of the sugar, starch, and spirit 
factories of Saxony, where great numbers of cattle are kept, and 
where the disease in question appears nearly every year, the own¬ 
ers are so completely convinced of the prophylactic power of 
inoculation, that they either subject all newly-introduced animals 
to the so-called £ protective inoculation,’ or at least subject all 
their animals to inoculation (peremptory inoculation) on the break¬ 
ing out of the disease. At the meeting of the Central Union 
Saxon Agriculturists, at Neuhaldensleben, in the summer of 1877, 
this question was discussed, and not a single agriculturist was 
found to support the doubts of several veterinarians present 
against the protective power of timely and properly executed 
inoculation.” 
On the contrary, it is the opinion of the majority of the veteri¬ 
nary authorities—and among the same men of scientific repute— 
that the material at present before us is insufficient to prove either 
the absolute or relative protective power of inoculation, and, f urther, 
that the opinion of the majority of Saxon agriculturists, as well 
as some veterinarians, that the inoculation exerts an absolute pro¬ 
phylactic influence, is a mistaken one, and that the disease takes 
the same course with or without inoculation. 
It is to be remarked that it is especially Saxon veterinarians, 
who have in reality had the most practical acquaintance with this 
question—among Germans—who have had the best opportu¬ 
nity to gather statistics, that we find inoculation strongly in 
favor, while the majority of those opposing the same have lacked 
such opportunities to study the disease and this assumed prophy 
lacticum. Uimpau finds his views strengthened by the observa¬ 
tion and experiments of Kreisthierarzt Ziegenbein, and remarks 
upon the same: “ When a veterinarian can bring together such 
a number of well authenticated cases speaking for the value of 
inoculation, and compares with the same the average loss which 
