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9th. Inoculation has been tested in almost every form as a preventive with¬ 
out satisfactory results. 
10th. Hog cholera is apparently identical with a disease which has recently 
been described in various parts of Europe. 
These conclusions are all based on the investigations conducted 
by the Bureau of Animal Industry. 
Veterinary Legislation.— We have hitherto, as occasions 
have occurred, kept our readers informed of the provisions of the 
bills which have been introduced before the Legislatures of the 
various States relating to the protection and regulation of veteri¬ 
nary practice. In this manner our friends have become ac¬ 
quainted with the various enactments which have thus far been 
perfected, and which must in due time, if faithfully administered, 
result in the extirpation of empiricism and quackery in the prac¬ 
tice of comparative medicine. We take pleasure in announcing 
in our present number the passage of the bill presented to the 
Legislature of Pennsylvania, the text of which we printed some 
time ago, and we accompany it with the text of the two bills 
which have been signed by the Governors of New Jersey and of 
California. Much may be learned by the veterinarian who will 
carefully study the provisions contained in these enactments, all 
of them aiming, as they do, to bring about similar results, though 
varying in the manner of securing them. That any of them are 
perfect will not be expected, but that they all contain provisions 
from the enforcement of which the veterinary profession may 
largely take advantage and greatly profit, cannot be doubted, and 
it is to be hoped that no one will decline to accept the good which 
is obtainable from their operation because some desirable benefit 
may have been undesignedly left unprovided for. This would be 
but poor philosophy at the best, and, moreover, that which may 
have been overlooked now, may still be secured at some future 
time, and the comprehensive and uniform legislation, which is the 
thing most needed, become at length an actual and accomplished 
fact. 
Notwithstanding the imperfection of these laws, we may fitly 
congratulate ourselves on their enactment, and may in fact con¬ 
sider them, even in their present form, as an advance upon some 
of those that are yet to come in old Continental Europe. 
