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mal Industry, we do not know where to look for it. These 
figures form the best answer that can be given to those skeptical 
Congressmen, legislators, and even veterinarians, who some time 
ago recorded themselves as disbelievers in the existence among 
our cattle of the bovine scourge of which we are speaking. This, 
however, is a point of no importance. 
If the Bureau of Animal Industry are wisely let alone, the 
day is not distant when their work will be reduced to the simpler, 
though not less important, duty of preventing the importation of 
the disease, the stamping out of which will have absorbed so 
much labor and involved so heavy an expense. 
Glanders in Montana. —We have on several occasions urged 
upon our readers the importance of obtaining monthly or quar¬ 
terly reports of the existence of contagious diseases throughout 
the country, and have invited their co-operation and assistance in 
the preparation of such information. There has been no response 
to our invitation, though the value and desirableness of these re¬ 
ports are constantly shown by the publications which we fre¬ 
quently find in our agricultural exchanges. We are all informed 
of the extensive existence of contagious pleuro-pneumonia; we 
are all aware of the slow but sure progress of tuberculosis 
amongst our costly herds ; and we hear of the occasional out¬ 
breaks of anthrax, and so on; and we also hear, now and then, 
of outbreaks of glanders amongst horses. Of course this latter 
disease is known to exist, more or less, all over the land, yet com¬ 
munications relating to its mode of multiplying itself are always 
interesting, and so much the more when we are able to trace the 
cause or discover the center of infection, and learn how easily its 
prevention might have been accomplished, to the very great ad¬ 
vantage of the horse owners who have suffered needless loss. If 
we are to accept the communication of the Territorial Veterinari¬ 
an of Montana, Dr. Holloway, as authoritative, a large number 
of the cases seen by him may be traced to condemned army 
horses or mules, which, instead of being destroyed after their 
condemnation, have been venally disposed of by selling them, 
contrary to orders, by the persons to whom they were turned 
over for execution. 
