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EDITORIALS. 
We have visited Normandy and its rich pastures, we have 
seen numerous herds of true Norman (Gotentine) cows right in 
their birthplace; and how well then we were able to appreciate 
the beauties and the true characters of that great French breed! 
At one of the fairs held at Isigny, so well renowned for the 
supreme quality of its butter, made from the milk of the true 
Cotentine cows, we saw some of the purest and handsomest 
animals that could be thought of, and the wood-cut, which we 
issue to-day, is obtained from a photograph of one of them. 
Stamping out Tuberculosis. —When we were in Phila¬ 
delphia, last September, during our short stay, we had an op¬ 
portunity to ask at random of Dr. D. E. Salmon if the Bureau 
was soon going to begin the work of stamping tuberculosis out 
of the country. He answered by a smile—that smile of his 
which we all know well—and tells so much when the Doctor 
wishes to tell so little—and we were free to think that the Bu¬ 
reau was not quite ready to enter into that enormous undertak¬ 
ing. If we are well informed, however, we were in error; and 
right or wrong, we understand that the subject has been agitat¬ 
ed in Washington. 
But if this is a canard , played at our expense, what is a posi¬ 
tive fact is that the work is going to be undertaken at an early 
date, if not already begun in Massachusetts. 
Following a meeting of the Cattle Commissioners of that 
state, which was held lately at Springfield, measures are going 
to be taken in earnest, at once, $50,000 having been appropri- 
ateT—inspection, quarantine, tuberculin test, slaughter, com¬ 
pensation to the owners, etc., etc.,—all are already prepared, 
and a series of regulations regarding the subject, and which we 
present to our readers in this number, will be issued. 
When one looks back at the time when Massachusetts un¬ 
dertook the task of stamping out pleuro-pneumonia, considers 
the thorough manner in which the work was carried out, and 
remembers that since that time the State has been free from that 
lung plague, it must certainly not be surprising to see that great 
