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ing all that could possibly have been done under 

 the circumstances. A great many things look 

 different to most of us once we get in on the 

 ground floor. In the first place, very few veter- 

 inarians in this country had ever seen a case of 

 this disease, and, for this reason, some of them 

 were taken unprepared. Very few people realized 

 the intent and purpose of the quarantine. The 

 lack of sympathy and support of the farmers and 

 stockmen of this country was another thing that 

 was very detrimental to the administrative pow- 

 ers that were handling the disease, and yet the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry did not have suffi- 

 cient force with which to do all the work as they 

 should like to have done. 



It seems to me that very few people realize the 

 vast size of the United States when they talk 

 about many things, and they surely fail to take 

 into consideration the vastness of the live stock 

 industry of this country when they talk about 

 foot and mouth disease. We have heard people 

 talk as if they really believed that the live stock 

 killed on account of the recent outbreak of foot 

 and mouth disease formed a large part of the 

 stock of this country. If they but knew what 

 a small fraction of a per cent the number of 

 slaughtered animals was to the total number 

 in the United States, we are sure many of them 

 would feel they were very foolish indeed to 

 think as they have been thinking. 



We learn from our past experiences and from 

 the history of other peoples and nations. We 



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