EDITORIAL. 
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easures ” have not been enforced from the start. Legislative 
tion has interfered with the work of stamping out. The ap- 
aisement of losses, which is the principal agent of success, has 
ien unsatisfactory. The capital required, the money granted to 
rry it on has not been sufficiently available, and while the entire 
aff of the Bureau of Animal Industry, with Dr. E. Salmon at its 
»ad, is hard at work, we can easily understand that the progress 
slow. It is not yet time to find fault, and if it comes, and the 
nit is located, we are sure it will not be chargeable to neglect, 
relessness or ignorance on the part of the veterinarians. 
A valuable acquisition has been secured by the stock yards 
ficials in obtaining the services of our friend, Dr. Gadsden, 
e have received a communication from him which we print in 
is number, which gives a very correct idea of the sort of advice 
! is likely to give in the stamping out of the disease. 
Speaking of Dr. Gadsden’s article, the veterinary editor of 
arf, Field and Farm , referring to it, says: 
Dr. Gadsden, of Philadelphia, a prominent veterinarian, sends us for publi- 
;ion an article contributed by himself to the Philadelphia Practical Farmer, 
October 16 inst., which we regret we have not the space to print. The article 
istles with strong points, and is well worth reading. We must, however, take 
ception to the statement that there is such great and imminent danger to be 
ticipated from what he is pleased to denominate “ so-called cured cases ” being 
owed to mingle with healthy herds, notwithstanding he gives as his experience 
it this has in the past been the means of spreading the malady, and cites a 
mber of strong names in the support of his theory. We are well aware that 
ople, especially professionals, are prone to jump to conclusions arrived at with- 
t a proper consideration of the subject in question, and with all respect to the 
>ctor and his supporters, we believe this to be a case of that kind. What we 
>uld like to ask the Doctor and the gentlemen he refers to is, has he or they 
er conducted a process of experimentation to establish the fact of the contagious 
ture of such cases, or does he arrive at his conclusion by some other process ? 
lere are so many avenues by which a contagious disease may be propagated and 
iseminated, that one may readily be mistaken for another. We experimented, 
we believe, very carefully in this matter, to wit, destroyed “ a so-called cured 
se” of two, four, and seven months standing, that is, after the normal func- 
qs had returned, and introduced a portion of the contents of each diseased 
ig into the system of twelve healthy bovines at different intervals and by dif- 
■ent processes, without producing anything resembling contagious pleuro-pneu- 
Dnia or its remotest symptoms. Prof. James Law also conducted a similar ex- 
rimentation without, as we understand, any positive result.— Vet. Ed. 
