268 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS.. 



erinarian. It is better rather to commit it to those who understaud all 

 the details of fumij^ation, inhalation, and the washing and saturation 

 of all ex])osed surroundings and material. 



Onr experiences in this State for the past year with pleuro pneumonia^ 

 glanders, and iiog cholera are sufficient to emphasize the immense im- 

 portance of close investigation of all contagious animal diseases by the 

 General Government. There is need not merely of hurried inquiry into 

 alleged outbreaks of contagions, and the rapid application of methods 

 of isolation, destruction, or quarantine, but of scieutiflc and laboratory 

 investigations and such skilled observations and experiences as will 

 prevent their occurrence. The uotable results that have already oc- 

 curred from the combined inquiry and insight of medical and veteri- 

 nary experts into the general development and life-history of these ma- 

 rauding pestilences, is enough to assure us that our neglect Avill be 

 culpable, if we fail to protect our great commercial and industrial inter- 

 ests by saving as far as possible the live-stock of our country from inva- 

 sions as disastrous as those of pestilence and famine. 



