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We then went over a field where the Pasteur virus had been put out about 3 weeks ago and found no dead or sick mice, but lots of live and healthy ones. Still a few of the burrows seemed to be closed or unused and a few of the mice may have been killed. Mr. Webb had put out the virus in this field, hoping to inocculate the mice so thoroughly as to exterminate them.

Then returning to the ranch I got out my materials for work and after dinner went with a man who is plowing up a ruined alfalfa field with a double sulky plow & 8 horses. The book keeper, Paul Reed, went with me & each with gloves on and a coal oil can in the left hand we started after the plow, catching the mice as they were turned out of the furrow and ran and putting them in the can. After 15 minutes lively jumping and scrambling we were out of breath & panting & tired but had as many mice as our cans would hold without being