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editorials that have appeared from time to time are the produc¬ 
tions of his ever-active pen. His friends in America, and their 
name is legion, will welcome his return with heartiness, and 
trust that his health will be so good for many years that he will 
not again have to wander from the land which has profited so 
much by his genius and which shares his affections with his 
native France. r, p> # 
“ Bovine Tuberculosis ; A Question of State Medi¬ 
cine.” —In another department of this issue of the Review 
will be found an interesting paper bearing the above title, from 
the pen of that sterling veterinarian, W. H. Harbaugh, of Rich¬ 
mond, Va. Attention is drawn to this contribution, not because 
it contains facts unknown to the veterinary world, nor that it 
advances a theory of a new nature, but for the reason that it is 
. a strong and unique appeal to the consumer to purify the source 
of his beef and dairy supply, thus lessening his exposure to 
the contraction of loathsome disease. It is such an article 
as would read well in the agricultural papers, for the awakening 
of a general interest to the importance of a subject the facts cf 
which have been proven by overwhelming evidence. Veterina¬ 
rians in all sections would do well to present the same facts to 
their constituency through the local press, or when opportunity 
presents itself to address bodies of citizens upon sanitary 
measures. 
Subscribers to the Review who have not paid for Vol. 
XX. are reminded for the last time that we cannot afford to 
carry them, and they must not expect to receive any further 
numbers unless the subscription price is at once remitted. 
There is at Rotterdam and at Antwerp large and important 
factories, where rejected horses of the omnibuses of Rondon are 
transformed into excellent preserves of beef and sold on the con¬ 
tinent with American labels, It is said that this industry con¬ 
sumes some 20,000 horses (?) a year. 
