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to expectorate, in which case the virulent material would be 
continually fed to the herd. It is hardly probable that much 
infection is brought about by eating tuberculous flesh. Al¬ 
though it is the habit in the country by some people, when an 
animal dies, to drag it out to the woods and let the hogs devour it; 
and should it be a tuberculous one, would probably be the cause 
of infecting many individuals of the herd. I know one instance in 
a city on the sea-coast which had a meat inspection system. The 
inspector, different from most city inspectors, had scientific 
training, and informed me that he found considerable tubercu¬ 
losis among the cattle. Upon inquiring as to what disposition 
was made of the condemned carcasses, was informed that the 
only thing he could do was to load them up and send them to 
the u dump,” but, says I, u you will infect the fish and get the 
tubercle at last by eating the fish.” And from the beach they 
were seining fish by the bushel. I have often thought that the 
refuse from the large packing establishments which is drained 
from the slaughter-houses through the sewers to the rivers might 
contain some infection which would be carried to the river and 
possibly devoured by the fish. 
The Colorado Anti-docking Law has received a body 
blow. Last week Judge Lindsey decided that this law was un¬ 
constitutional in that it interfered with inter-State commerce 
by forbidding the importation of docked horses into the State. 
Col. J. W. Springer, President of the National Live Stock 
Association, was therefore fully sustained in his inter-State 
commerce rights to bring into Colorado horses with docked 
tails. It will be remembered that the suit to test the validity 
of the law was brought against Col. Springer in Denver in a 
more or less friendly spirit, but the defendant had determined 
to carry the matter to the United States Supreme Court had he 
been defeated. He contended that he was perfectly within his 
rights under the inter-State commerce law to bring into Colo¬ 
rado horses docked or undocked as he saw fit, and the court 
took his view of the matter. The case was ably conducted on 
both sides and hotly contested, the object of both parties being 
to get a decision that would really decide one way or another.— 
{Breeder's Gazette , Sept. //.) 
