American Veterinary Review. 
JANUARY, 1897. 
EDITORIAL. 
THE MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF CATTEE COM¬ 
MISSIONERS. 
F01 two >ears the veterinary world has had its eyes rivetted 
upon the Bay State, watching- with the keenest interest the out¬ 
come of the system which she had inaugurated with the lofty 
object of detecting, controlling, and probably eradicating tuber¬ 
culosis from the herds of that Commonwealth. That result 
was to have been accomplished by the aid of tuberculin, quar¬ 
antine, and slaughter, and her regulations were deemed so much 
in accord with scientific conceptions that the step was regarded 
as a gigantic and intelligent experiment, which was not only to 
produce the happiest economic results for the stockmen of that 
State, but which would confer the greatest benefit upon sci¬ 
ence, and, if successful, would receive adoption m many, if not 
all, of the States of the Union where the industry is of large 
proportions. While murniurings of dissatisfaction have re¬ 
cently been heard that the powers of the Board were gradually 
being restricted by interested legislation, we regret to lay before 
our readers the letter of Professor Osgood, Chairman of the 
Commission, addressed to the Governor of the State, in which 
he gives a detailed account of the circumstances which have 
led him to tender his resignation, which the Chief Executive 
accepts. The story of the obstacles which the Commission 
has had to encounter in adverse legislation is very fully given 
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