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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
right side, substance of the lung 
diseased. 
95. Do.—sound. 
96. Do. do. 
97. Do. do. 
98. Do. do. 
99. Cow—adhesions to the chest, 
substance of the lung sound. 
100. Heifer—dark spots on the 
lungs, and a number of the same 
appearances on the peritoneum. 
101. Do.—appearances as in No. 
100, in the chest, but the peritoneum 
not affected. 
102. Calf—sound. 
103. Do. do. 
104. Heifer — 
105. Do.—right lung as much di¬ 
seased as in No. 1. 
106. Yearling steer—sound. 
“ (Signed) 
107. Calf—sound. 
108. Do. do. 
109. Heifer — 
110. Do. — 
111. Do.—adhesions to the chest, 
but the lungs sound. 
112. Calf—sound. 
113. Heifer do. 
114. Do.—extensive disease as in 
No. 1. 
115. Do.—sound. 
116. Calf—slightly affected. 
117. Working bullock—sound. 
118. Do. do. 
119. Do. do. 
120. Do. do, 
121. Do. do. 
122. Do. do. 
123. Cow—slightly diseased. 
ANTHONY A. SMITH, V.S.” 
As it is unnecessary to make any comments on this report, 
which speaks so plainly of the great increase the disease had 
made in this herd, and of the necessity of at once preventing 
its further progress, we pass on to explain that the malady 
had likewise no sooner found a firm footing in the United 
States than “ the House of Representatives” referred the 
question to “ the Committee of Agriculture,” for investigation 
and suggestions as the best preventive means to be 
adopted. 
Instructions were given that they “ inquire respecting the 
novel and alarming malady now prevailing among the cattle in 
certain localities of the United States , known as pleuro¬ 
pneumonia ; that they consider whether the infection is likely 
to become so general as to become a subject of national concernment , 
and to recommend any action which it may be competent and ex¬ 
pedient for Congress to take with a view to arresting the ravages 
of so destructive a disease 
The report of the Committee was presented in June last, 
and is replete with important suggestions on every branch 
of the subject which had been referred to them; but on this 
occasion we content ourselves by quoting the resolutions 
which were arrived at, together with that part of the report 
