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or honorably and efFectually sluit up in any district where it may appear^ 

 so that an official certificate may give an absolute guarantee of sound- 

 ness. How much more should the United States, bound into one na- 

 tion and having' one common Federal legislative body, and one Federal 

 administration, arrange for a single law on th's subject for all the States 

 and Territories and for its uniform aduiinistration, whether tlirough 

 State or national officials? Hitherto the varying laws in different 

 States have been a source of constant uncertainty, trouble, and loss to 

 dealers, and yet no certain guarantee against the extension of the 

 plague from State to State. 



6. In dealing with an insidious affi?ction like lung-plague the veter- 

 inary profession in Europe realize the necessity of ad()[)ting every means^ 

 calculated to secure information of outbreaics, and the restriction of 

 surreptitious movemeiirs of animals; they accordingly declare in favor 

 of indemnity to four-dfths of the sound value for sick cattle sacrificed 

 and the full value for cattle exposed to infection but not yet diseased 

 and also for heavy penalties for all failures to con)i)ly with the law. In 

 our own State of Pennsylvania, infected herds have been taken posses- 

 sion of by the State, and all that subsequently sickened have been paid 

 for at full appraised value, with results incomparably better than where 

 the law has been to give small indemnities and imjjose large penalties. 

 Our legislators should realize from this combined experience of Europe 

 and America that niggardly indemnities mean concealment, smuggling,. 

 and extension of the disease, while with liberal remuneration for the 

 cattle taken the disease may be stamped out at a mere fraction of the 

 outlay that would otherwise be necessary. In city dairies, where most 

 of our lung-plague is to be found, the full value of the animals killed is 

 far from compensating the owner for the interruption of his business 

 until his herd and stables can be i)ronounced sound, i^o economy is 

 more false than tluit which saves on the payment for infected cattle 

 slaughtered at the expense of concealment and surrei>titious diffusion 

 of the disease. 



3. EDUCATION IN VETEEINAKY MEDICINE. 



This subject was introduced by two separate reports — one by Hngues,. 

 of Brussels, the other by Professor Wirz, of Utrecht, and^liiller, of 

 ]>crlin. 



nUGUKS' REPOKT. 



A. — Education in veterinary medicine and the social position of the veterinarian 

 demand a tliorough preliminary instruction correspondinj; to the classes in humanity 

 or the com]>lete professional ones. 



li. — Education in veterinary meiliciiio should be theoretical, scientific, practical, 

 experimental, and educational, in giving lo eacli of tlicsej the rclative^j'mpt rtnnce^ 

 wliicii the real needs of pr.dessional work demands. 



To this end we nsk — 



1. That the studies si oiild extend over tive years. 



