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and adopt such measures as would foreyer rid our coun- 

 try of tMs most insidious of all animal plagues. At all 

 hazards the work ought to be done and that speedily. If 

 State rights stand in the way, let the money at least be 

 supplied, as it rightfully ought, from the National ex- 

 chequer, and applied by the different States through 

 their own officials under the supervision of some re- 

 sponsible department — say the Agricultural Bureau, a 

 Live Stock Disease Commission, the National Board 

 of Health, or even the Treasury Department. It is folly 

 and worse to quarrel about the means iintil the plague 

 shall have passed beyond control. Action is wanted, 

 of a prompt and decisive nature, by the General Gov- 

 ernment or with its assistance, and those who are most 

 deeply interested in the subject should press this upon 

 the Government until such action shall have been se- 

 cured. 

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