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J. A. MC CRANK. 
Now, brother members, my paper is done. It is but the 
record of observations of the writer, and has been hurriedly 
thrown together, with one object in view. There are many 
clever veterinarians in this land, who possibly despair of suc¬ 
cess, and think that they are failures in their chosen profession, 
when the locality is at fault. This paper is written so that 
they may take heart and plod onward and upward. Keep up 
with the times, for others will fail in your locality. 
Anthrax in Hides. —The importation of hides of cattle 
into the United States will hereafter be subjected to strict in¬ 
spection. The Treasury Department at Washington was in¬ 
formed by various consular officials that foot-and-mouth disease, 
anthrax and other infectious and contagious ailments prevail in 
various countries from which hides of one kind and another are 
shipped to this country and that dealers did not take pains in 
all cases to properly disinfect the skins. Now a consular certifi¬ 
cate will be required by the United States Customs Department 
with all imports of hides, showing that they are either dry-salted, 
arsenic or lime-cured and thoroughly disinfected according to 
the sulphur formula prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 
Exceptions will be made in the case of hides shipped from 
Great Britain, Norway and Sweden abattoirs, for in these three 
countries only cattle absolutely free from all disease may be 
slaughtered.—( Breeder's Gazette .) 
To Investigate the Transmissibieity of Tubercu¬ 
losis. —Dr. Koch’s communication to the recent Congress of 
Tuberculosis has resulted in the appointment of a Royal Com¬ 
mission in England to inquire and report with regard to tuber¬ 
culosis : (i) Whether the disease in animals and man is one and 
the same. (2) Whether animals and man can be reciprocally 
infected with it. (3) Under what conditions, if at all, the 
transmission of the disease from animals to man takes place, 
and what are the circumstances favorable or unfavorable to 
such transmission. The commissioners are invested with full 
powers to call before them any witnesses whom they desire to 
question, to have access to all documents and inspect any places 
they deem expedient for their purpose, and while they are at 
liberty to report from time to time as they may think fit, it is 
the royal will and pleasure that they shall publish their full 
conclusions with as little delay as possible. 
