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EDITORIAL. 
Bureau of Animal Industry on swine diseases are erroneous, 
the right thing to do is to break them, but first get throug 
with the annihilation and then shout. 
Three or four years ago the Bureau was reported as en¬ 
tirely routed, and all its conclusions overthrown by the dis¬ 
covery of an available (secret) vaccine or protective inocula¬ 
tion for hog cholera, but the disease seems just as prevalent 
as ever, and no one seems to know the place where the great 
secret of protective inoculation lies buiied. _ 
And now from the same laboratory the news is flashed 
over the wires that again the Bureau is routed, and all its 
conclusions as to Texas fever totally upset by the discovery 
of the specific micro-organism ; that the discoverer knows 
how to breed it, and has transmitted the disease by means o 
his cultivated stock. Just what conclusions of the Bureau 
are thus upset is not stated, nor are we told what effect this 
new meteor will have on the Bureau or the health of its chid. 
All veterinarians are glad to learn of this discovery, as the 
United States is annually spending large sums for the express 
purpose of finding this germ, and it will form the basis 01 
some possibly available remedy in the future. Meanwhile, we 
are breathlessly awaiting an accurate description of this wily 
o-erm, its earmarks, how it is to be recognized, how cultivated 
and where found . 
But could we do away with petty jealousies and have 
some mutual confidence and esteem for each other and the 
work of each other, and cease making the destruction of the 
work of others our sole aim and ambition, it would be worth 
more than a photograph of the bacillus of Texas fevei. 
NOTICE. 
The fourth annual session of the Iowa State Veterinary 
Medical Association will be held in the parlors of the Savery 
House, Des Moines, Iowa, November 12th and 13th, 1891. 
S. Stewart, D.V.M., Secretary. 
