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In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 

Starting Early 
DEAR ForEST & STREAM: 
AM inclosing a.small snap which 
was taken on the 24th of May after 
a day’s shooting which my brother, 
eight years old and myself, sixteen, en- 
gaged in. My little brother handles the 
gun almost as well as I. My father is 
a great sportsman and says there is 
nothing like learning while we are 
young. We shot about twenty crows as 
well as destroyed over forty eggs, also 
some hawks. 
We get Forest & STREAM every 
month, and so I thought it would be 
very nice to have our picture published, 
as my brother is so young. He handles 
a .44 cal. sporting gun and I use a 20- 
gauge Winchester pump, full choke. 
MASTER GEORGIE and LESTER 
DUNTHORNE, 
Winnipeg, 
Man. 
Disagrees With Mr. Stacy 
DEAR FOREST & STREAM: 
WE would appreciate it very much 
if you would publish in your pa- 
per a reply to the article on “Vaccinat- 
ing Dogs’ published under the name of 
Henry P. Stacy. This article is a mis- , 
‘representation of facts and is mislead- 
ing to the general public. 
Let us explain that the practical 
method of immunizing dogs against ra- 
bies was developed by S. Umeno, a 
Japanese investigator, and reported in 
the Kitasato, Archives of Exp. Med., 
Vol. IV, which revealed the fact that a 
single injection of vaccine would serve 
to immunize dogs for a period of one 
year. In their own country rabies in- 
fection became so prevalent that the 
public health authorities were alarmed, 
Tt will identify you, 
and as a result of the emergency this 
work was carried out. 31,307 dogs 
were successfully immunized for one 
year. They were exposed to street 
virus, and we feel that a report of this 
nature should be sufficient to convince 
the most skeptical of the benefits to 
mankind of this treatment. 
The work of Sir David Semple demon- 
strated that Phenol could be used to 
kill the rabies virus without destroying 
its immunizing value, which is reported 
in Scientific Memoirs of Officers of the 
Medical and Sanitary Department of 
the Government of India, N. S. Nov. 4, 
LOTT 
The problem of rabies prevention is 
a public health measure, the various 
states have not taken up production 
of vaccine, and it has been left to the 
commercial houses to prepare the vac- 
cine. All the vaccine which is supplied 
is prepared under U. S. Government in- 
spection and the indications of the 
product are proved only after careful 
investigation. That the biological 
houses should be accused of fostering 
the propaganda, is a rather narrow- 
minded accusation. A parallel situa- 
tion would be to accuse the biological 
houses of starting epidemics of Small- 
pox, Diphtheria and other infectious 
diseases for which there is a proven 
biological agent for its control. 
If Mr. Stacy would investigate the 
character, ideals and purposes of the 
biological houses, he would find nothing 
discreditable about their motives. 
The advancement in medical science 
for the past twenty-five years has made 
possible the usefulness of these institu- 
tions, and they themselves have con- 
tributed largely in the practical appli- 
cation of scientific discoveries. I feel 
safe in saying that there is not a bio- 
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