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EDITORIAL. 
If this statement is correct, it is certainly a matter of which 
the courts, martial or criminal, should take hold of at once and 
promptly rectify, and our colleagues in the army should see that 
such villainy—it is nothing less—should be well disciplined. 
But what can an army veterinarian do, after all, while held in 
the low position he is now compelled to occupy, and so long as 
he is denied the rank and position which by right is his ? 
We append the statement of Dr. Holloway: 
The fears that some months since were entertained concerning glanders 
seem to have been only too well founded. The disease has already made its ap¬ 
pearance in nearly every portion of the territory; in fact, only one county 
(Beaverhead) has thus far escaped, and several cases have occurred so near its 
borders as the town of Melrose. The truth is, the more we investigate the more 
we find of it to deal with. Why, only yesterday I found six cases of it in Butte. 
In a general way it may be said to be most frequently found along the 
main route of travel. We are, however, doing much to eradicate it, though the 
difficulties encountered are many. In the first place, Montana is larger than all 
New England, which in itself is a matter of much importance; and in the second, 
the people are not as yet fully alive to the necessity of taking the immediate 
steps that are necessary to completely squelch the disease. Because in former 
years they have escaped any serious trouble, they have quite naturally concluded 
they will be equally fortunate in the future. 
In all countries that ever I have seen, there is always more or less of the 
trouble. Its causes are numerous and very generally understood, but I am quite 
reliably informed that a great deal may be traced to our military posts. The dis¬ 
ease is quite likely to make its appearance where large numbers of horses or 
mules are kept in stables, such as are required by cavalry regiments or horse-car 
companies in large cities, without any specific cause. It has several times made 
its appearance at the forts located in Montana. Horses have been condemned 
and ordered shot, but the private soldiers to whom the duty was intrusted, in¬ 
stead of obeying orders, would take the animals out to a distance from the post, 
and instead of obeying orders would sell the animals, or a portion of them, to 
unscrupulous persons for perhaps five dollars, and they in turn would sell at an 
advance of five or ten dollars more. If the disease always plainly manifested 
itself, it could be much more easily controlled. There are many unscrupu¬ 
lous persons who for a few dollars will sell a glandered animal, and in so doing 
perhaps endanger the lives of a whole herd of animals. I remember one case in 
which a man sold an old mare suffering from the complaint, and he knew it, 
with the result of killing four mules that were quartered in the same barn 
with her.— Nat. Live Stock Jour. 
United States Veterinary Medical Association.' —The 
next anniversary meeting of the United States Veterinary Med¬ 
ical Association is to take place on the 20th of September, the 
