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EDITORIAL. 
The first appropriation of funds made by Congress seemed to he 
liberally large, but as the undertaking progresses, and looms up 
larger and larger, and continues to assume still increasing dimen¬ 
sions, it becomes more and more difficult to determine a limit for 
the final cost of the great and necessary enterprise. The officers 
of the Bureau of Animal Industry have now removed their quai- 
ters to the city of New York, which thus becomes a new centre 
from which to direct their widely extended operations, a step 
which will probably test their pecuniary resources to an extent 
beyond anything they have experienced in the past. Perhaps it 
is for this reason that the work of stamping out the disease has 
not yet been earnestly inaugurated in the metropolis and the cir¬ 
cumjacent territory, where the disease has, to an indefinite extent, 
prevailed for years, but will now, doubtless, soon be subjected to 
a course of rigid inspection and vigorous attack. The active 
supervision of Dr. Wray, the chief executive officer, will soon 
declare itself, and it is certain that it will not be long before we 
shall hear news of active operations and their results. But our 
people and our Legislature, and the national Congress especia Hy, 
must not be allowed to believe that what has already been granted 
is nearly sufficient. Pleuro-pn^umonia can be stamped out from 
its old birth-place, and afterwards from the district^ which have 
subsequently become infected. The practicability of this is easily 
demonstrated, but the indispensable condition is always present. 
Whatever the ordnance may be, money is the only available am¬ 
munition. Good veterinarians, willing to become faithful ser¬ 
vants, are waiting for the opportunity to assist in the work, but 
their principal weapon of aggressive attack must not be withheld. 
Money must be forthcoming, we repeat, or the whole undertaking 
will abort. Of course there is no danger of its final abandon¬ 
ment, but it should be borne in mind that if only half done, and 
rallying time is allowed between the attacks, the expenditure will 
be certainly enhanced in the end. Spasmodic and occasional 
assaults will be of small account. Congress should be importuned 
and urged to provide the ammunition freely, if the good fight is 
to be pressed on to final victory. The following is the letter of 
Dr. Salmon, as printed in the Breeders’ Gazette : 
