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EDITORIALS. 
that they were right in their endeavors to protect our live stock, 
in advocating the wholesale slaughter of cattle—which was 
done ; the re-enforcing of vexatious measures, and the large ex¬ 
penses which were involved in the work carried out by the 
bureau. 
We feel that pleuro-pneumonia is stamped out in the United 
States ; we know it is, and on that account feel that the regu¬ 
lations of the Belgian Government have other reasons for their 
application besides the one named, “ the presence of contagious 
pleuro-pneumonia.” 
What has our chief of the bureau to say about it ? 
Bovine Tuberculosis. —The subject of tuberculosis, its 
presence, and the measures which ought to be applied to control 
its ever-growing extent, is one which now occupies the attention 
of all interested in the cattle business. Of its presence and its 
enormous extent we know pretty well. For years back vet¬ 
erinarians, in their special capacity, either as official State 
veterinarians or private practitioners, have raised the cry of the 
danger ahead ; and even our journals have in many instances 
called the attention of the authorities to the danger which was 
threatened by its presence—and notwithstanding all these 
nothing was done. All advices were neglected, and free 
opportunities were left for the disease to extend—and it did—in 
such a manner that States which considered themselves as com¬ 
paratively free from it are now obliged to acknowledge that 
the various percentages which were named and denied then, are 
unfortunately, correct. 
And now preventive measures are the order of the day. 
The grand result obtained in the management of pleuro¬ 
pneumonia is looked upon as possible in the management of 
tuberculosis. The great differences which exist between these 
two scourges of cattle, that of their mode of origin, and of con¬ 
tamination, are overlooked. The fact that one is only affecting 
bovines and is harmless to human beings, while the other is 
common to both species of living organisms, and is transmissible 
