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pay, except by a bounty or protective system oil a scale that 
cannot for a moment be contemplated in this country. For my 
own part, I should never recommend any such scheme to be so 
much as mooted. 
What the Commission can do, and what I claim it is doing 
more effectually every day, is this : it is making the breeding of 
half-bred horses possible and reasonable for the farming com- 
munity, whereas before the Commission got to work the breed- 
ing of half-bred horses by the farming community was hardly 
possible or reasonable. 
One last word as to the foreign demand. Let us stimulate 
and let us provide for that demand by every means in our power. 
But let us stimulate and provide for it with English p-oduce, 
and let us recognise clearly that the stallions and mares it has 
paid the foreigner so well to come and buy, it may pay us still 
better to keep and breed from. 
. ElBBLESDALE. 
TUBERCULOSIS IN ANIMALS, AND ITS 
RELATION TO CONSUMPTION IN MAN. 
During the past eight or ten years tuberculosis, or consumption, 
has received more attention than any other disease of either 
man or animals. The reason of this has been not only that the 
belief in its contagious nature was becoming more generally 
accepted, but the discovery by experiment that the disease in 
man and animals was the same, and inter-communicable from 
the one to the other. When this discovery was made, the ques- 
tion naturally arose how far the flesh and milk of tuberculous 
animals might prove injurious to man when used as food. 
Thus, from being a medical or scientific question, the subject 
became of as much interest and importance to the stock-owner 
and others connected with the cattle trade, as to the sanitary 
medical officers and the guardians of the public health. The 
subject has frequently been discussed in the columns of the 
daily and agricultural press, and to those unacquainted with 
medical literature it may have appeared as if some new disease 
had been discovered. Such, however, is not the case : the 
history of tuberculosis has no well-defined starting point. 
Some authorities infer from the mention of the " pining 
animal that was not to be eaten," that the disease was known 
to Moses, but this seems doubtful. The Jewish community 
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