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regulated in America to urge upon the French government the 
necessity for similar legislation in France. 
International Veterinary Congress of Chicago. —A 
letter of inquiry will be found in our correspondence which is of 
some importance. Mr. Morot claims to have given not only his 
adhesion to the Congress, but to have also paid for the comptes 
rendus of the meeting. It is to be hoped that the secretary will 
do justice to the claims of our French conf rere whose address may 
have been lost at the office of the secretary of the Congress. 
Exportation of Horses. —Apropos of the great increase 
in the export of American horses to England, some interesting 
statistics of which will be found in the news department, we 
would strongly advise the United States Government to exercise 
the greatest care in the inspection of horses leaving her shores 
for that destination, as the cry of “ glanders ” is already being 
raised by the English breeders against foreign horses. It is 
well 0own that this loathsome disease does not exist in our 
breeding districts, but only in the large cities, and that our ex¬ 
ports are exclusively from the stock farms ; but, with our ex¬ 
perience with other live stock—notably cattle and hogs—we 
have a right to anticipate the same experience with our horses 
when the breeders of Great Britain become alive to the enor¬ 
mity of this new industry. The Government should, therefore, 
exercise the greatest vigilance in the systematic inspection of the 
exports, keeping a careful record of each individual, the state, 
county, and farm (if possible) from which it came, so that in 
case of a question as to the presence of a contagious disease, the 
history of the animal can be traced from its destination to its 
origin, and if the charge is unjust the Government will be in a 
position to refute the imputation, and if true, to trace its origin, 
and prohibit further exportation from the same source,—with 
the effect of fostering an industry that has proven a great boon 
to our breeders in the recent depression that we trust we have 
about passed through. 
