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nless radical measures are at once adopted to exterminate it 
here it already exists, and prevent its communication to other 
arts of the country. This is a matter that affects not only the 
users and dealers in cattle, farmers, dairymen and butchers, but 
very man, woman and child in the country, for it strikes directly 
t the source of supply of animal food. Allow this disease to 
iread in the future as it has in the past, and the day is not far 
istant when the animals affected can be counted by the million, 
id not by the hundred as at present, and it is easy to perceive 
le effect this will have upon our markets and the scarcity of 
3ef that must be the natural result. 
For years back efforts have been made in some of the States 
) stamp out the disease, and some slight attempt has been made 
y Congress to give National direction to these efforts, but unfor- 
mately it has been on the penny-wise and pound-foolish prin- 
ple. Owners of cattle naturally object to having their animals 
illed without receiving full compensation for them, and the gov¬ 
ernment, both State and National, has failed to make provision 
> pay for the animals that should be slaughtered to eradicate the 
mtagion. As a consequence, temporizing measures have been 
iopted, animals apparently recovered have been permitted to 
ve and mingle with healthy cattle. A partial quarantine has 
sen established about infected herds that has been so loosely en- 
>rced as to be practically of no effect, and numerous experiments 
£ inoculation have been tried. It has been very difficult to edu- 
tte the people of this country to believe that pleuro-pneumonia 
as contagious, and harder still to convince them that it was in¬ 
arable. Many animals that had been but slightly affected, ap- 
arently recovered, and to outward appearance to the unprofes- 
onal eye, were restored to their normal condition of health, and 
at these very animals have been the means of spreading the dis- 
ise all over the country, and while apparently healthy them- 
dves, were centres of contagion that disseminated the seeds of 
ie plague to hundreds of healthy animals. 
While acting as an Inspector of the United States Govern- 
lent in 1881, in my report to the Commissioner of Agriculture I 
3commended as an ultimatum, without which the disease could 
