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castration of the stallions and spaying of the mares , to insure 
against the spread of the disease by their use for breeding pur¬ 
poses ; and a very radical, but, we consider, most excellent decis¬ 
ion of the meeting, was to kill every infected animal. We are 
inclined to consider these the most desirable of all the measures 
applicable to the emergency, with the indispensable addendum of 
a provision strictly prohibiting the importation of any stallions 
or mares without a perfect and clean bill of health, certified by 
the proper officials of the county, town or department from which 
the animals are brought, and which shall be supplemented by a 
rigid veterinary inspection at the place of landing, and, if neces¬ 
sary, a subsequent quarantine. Such a process of prevention as 
this will overbalance, beyond computation, the trouble and cost 
of measures which may subsequently become necessary through 
improvidence and stupidity in the beginning. 
Vaccination in Anthrax.—A reference to the files of the 
Review for several years past recalls to our recollection a number 
of articles in which we have stated our views on the subject of vac¬ 
cination in various diseases, and we are quite satisfied to reaffirm 
our position, and to feel assured that our advocacy has been fully 
justified by the benefits which have followed the practice and 
rewarded our suggestions. This advocacy of the theories and ex¬ 
periences of Pasteurism has been in some instances reproachfully 
charged against ns as an error resulting from patriotic enthusiasm. 
The reproach may be a just one, but, notwithstanding this, no 
one can question the integrity of our views and the conscientious¬ 
ness of our advocacy, or truthfully deny our willingness to con¬ 
fess our demonstrated errors, when discovered. 
We refer, on this point, to our course in respect to the matter 
of hog cholera, in connection with the Pasteur prophylaxy. We 
formed the opinion that inoculation with the Pasteur vaccine was 
the best means of protecting the swine-owners of the West from 
disaster and loss, and we so affirmed. We discovered our error, 
and acknowledged it; and to-day we declare that we now oppose 
as strenuously as we then defended, the use of the means in 
question. 
But if the disease treated successfully was not hog cholera, 
