CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
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those charged with the enforcement of the State laws have been 
so lenient or negligent that diseased animals, and those exposed to 
the disease, have been permitted to be removed from point to 
point, in spite of so-called quarantines that amounted to nothing. 
So long as the disease remained in the Eastern States, those 
in the West ridiculed it, and even after it had reached the West¬ 
ern States, doubts as to its contagious character were insisted upon, 
until its ravages became so wide-spread that the danger could no 
longer be denied. 
Local jealousies and want of co-operation, inadequate appro¬ 
priations to pay for animals killed, and a general want of knowl¬ 
edge as to the nature of the disease, have been the causes that 
have prevented our getting rid of it; and if not speedily corrected, 
will be the cause of its still further spreading until it reaches the 
ranges of the far West and Southwest, where all means of eradi¬ 
cating it will be hopeless. 
Such being the case, by what method shall we rid the country 
of the disease ? 
Firstly. By prohibiting the importation of live animals from 
all countries where the disease exists. 
Secondly. By the prompt slaughter of all animals affected 
with it, and those that have in any manner come in contact with 
them. 
To secure this we must have the whole power of the National 
Government exercised, and the earnest co-operation of State and 
Territorial authorities. 
It will involve the slaughter of many animals that may show 
no outward taint of disease, yet which from their exposure to in¬ 
fection may be the means of transmitting it to others. 
When the disease is discovered on any premises, allow no an¬ 
imal to be removed alive; but, after examination and appraise¬ 
ment by the proper authorities, have all slaughtered, the healthy 
animals for beef, and the diseased ones for burial. 
Place a fair valuation upon every herd infected, and after de¬ 
ducting the price received for the carcasses of the healthy ones, 
pay the owner the balance of the appraisement promptly, in cash. 
Impose heavy penalties upon all owners of cattle who fail to 
