as a sanitary measure, and called the attenti- n of the people 

 to tha arooun.- of diseased maat which was annually bought and sold 

 in our large city marliets, all over the country. Last winter some 

 five hundred sicli creatures, were slaughtered in tbe state of New 

 Jersey, during the prevalence of Pleuropneumonia there, and sold 

 for human food. And yet nothing has been done in this country to 

 curtail these wilful and criminal transactions. He spoke of that 

 new class of diseases known as the Anthrax favers, which included 

 black leg splenic appoplexy in cattle, and braxy in sheep. All 

 of which maladies are very malignant, and render the flesh oi such 

 vicHins very deleterious, and man}- times even poisonous, when con- 

 sumed by the human family. As tJiis disease is so little under- 

 stood, we were very liable to slaughter an animal, at any time for 

 food, when it might be affected with one of these insidious diseases, 

 and would have died, if it had not been killed. Ilencc; the import- 

 ance of veterinary education, that we may be prepared to guard 

 our tables from all such meats in every form. 



And, lastl}^ the professor assured us of the immense value of such 

 knowledge in a linancial point of view. "We are liable, at any time, 

 to have pleuropneumonia break out again within our midst ; for its 

 latent germs are now very widely sown, and, cince its lirst appear- 

 ance here, in 1842, we have never been entirely fi'ee from its local 

 ravages, which, in the aggregate, has already caused an immense 

 sacrifice of live stock i:)roperty, in various parts of the country. He 

 spjke of the liability of the Russian cattle plague being brought to 

 our native shore. It has visited the British Islands several times, 

 for want of sulFicient quarentine regulations on the eastern fronteer, 

 and the " foot and mouth disease " may actually be imported with the 

 regular shipment of foreign stock ; our ports are not guarded by a 

 competent veterinary ins]^ ector. Dr. Cressy spoke with much zeal 

 in this direction, and urged that the farmers should contribute to 

 the advancement of veterinary science. We are glad to welcome 

 him to ou: agricultural community, and hope and trust that he will 

 favor us again v/ith some of the results of his investigations on this 

 important subject. 



It is a matter of regret that circumstances were such as to make 

 it necessary to ask Dr. Cressy to speak from the stand instead of in 

 the hall, the wind making it difficult for many to hear distinctly. 



