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EDITORIAL. 
Union, and it is believed that this year’s meeting will prove most interesting 
well as profitable. 
You are most respectfully urged to attend. 
Rush S. Huidekoper, M.D., V.S., 
President. 
Dean of Veterinary Dept., University of 
Pa., Philadelphia, Pa. 
J. Gerth, Jr., D.Y.S., 
Secrete 
Nebraska State Veterinari 
Lincoln, Neb. 
Geo. C. Faville, B.V.M., 
Assistant Secrete 
Colorado State Veterinari 
Fort Collins, Colo. 
This organization was, we believe, organized last year, at c. 
of the meetings of the Live Stock Association, and the work 
must have prepared (?) or accomplished during the last twelj 
months, must undoubtedly be of interest to the veterinarians of t 
country generally. But besides the meeting of this organizatk 
an invitation, emanating from the “ Consolidated Cattle Growe 
Association of America,” to attend the meeting appointed to 
held in Chicago on the 16th and 17th of November, has be 
extended to the veterinary organizations of the country at lai’£ 
Taking in consideration the importance of the subjects which a 
to be treated and discussed, and the weighty interests of t 
veterinary profession which are involved, the work of these met 
ings will be anxiously anticipated and carefully scrutinized. 
Massachusetts Sanitary Measures.— Massachusetts has i 
many years been free from that contagious disease of cattle whi 
threatens our Western herds, and, at the same time, maintains 
careful watch against others from which there is a possibility 
danger to her stock animals. We print a communication in o 
present number, from the State Cattle Commission, which m. 
wisely be taken as an example of what ought to be done in eve 
£>tate in the Union. The entire letter is appropriated to the pre 
entation of a single measure of sanitary medicine, to wit, t, 
‘declaration, or the “giving notice” of the presence, and 
the suspicion of the existence, of a contagious disease. This 
well done. The existence of a disease of that nature, once knov 
by the first case discovered, and the measures taken to dispo 
of it, are, after all, the essential means for the prevention of tl 
invasion and spread of one of these scourges. 
