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JOHN M. RARKER. 
Again, in an editorial in the American V eterinary Re. 
VIEW, Prof. Liautard says: “ Tuberculosis, on the contrary, 
can never be entirely extinguished, and, at best, the oppor¬ 
tunities for its transmissibility to human beings can only be 
diminished, and that only to a very limited extent, and only, 
also, with the possibility of a temporary check to a new ex¬ 
tension. It is not our desire to criticise at present the work 
recommended by the honorable Chairman of the Cattle Com¬ 
mission of Massachusetts [Prof. Osgood], but we fear that in 
his enthusiasm, or by higher orders, he is obliged to carry 
out an undertaking which will not prove as satisfactoiy as 
that carried out in days when pleuro-pneumonia existed in 
that state.” 
And further, previous to the hearing before the Senate 
Committee on Agriculture and Public Health, I sent the fol¬ 
lowing telegraph message to Prof. Liautard, New York; j 
Prof. Leonard Pearson, University of Pennsylvania, and to 
Dr. Horace Hoskins, Philadelphia, Pa. “ Can bovine tuber¬ 
culosis be stamped out in Massachusetts as contagious pleuro¬ 
pneumonia was stamped out? 
Prof. Liautard answered : 
New York, February io. 
Dr. John M. Parker, Haverhill, Mass.: 
Most decidedly, No. 
A. Liautard. 
Prof. Pearson answered : 
Philadelphia, Pa., February io. 
John M. Parker, Haverhill, Mass.: 
Pleuro-pneumonia method will not do for tuberculosis. 
Leonard Pearson. 
And Dr. Hoskins answered: 
Philadelphia, Pa., February io. 
John M. Parker, Haverhill, Mass.: 
I doubt it, they differ so greatly. 
Hoskins. 
Again, Prof. Paige of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, in a bulletin lately published, says that “ our old-styled 
and unsanitary stables, thoroughly infected with the germs 1 
of tuberculosis, make the complete eradication and suppres-. 
sion of this disease well nigh impossible.” (Hatch Exp. Sta¬ 
tion Bulletin No. 27, Dec., 1894.) 
