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In the face of this testimony, coining as it does from gentle- 
len who are eminent in their profession, and who have had ex- 
aptional facilities for observing and experimenting with the dis- 
ise, and taken in connection with our own actual experience of 
le constant spread of the disease and its steady march westward, 
an we afford to longer close our eyes to the danger that threatens 
s, and allow all our cattle to be affected, before we awaken to 
be fact that action, prompt, heroic and effective, is needed at 
nee to avert this dire calamity. See to it then that the laws 
lready in existence are rigidly enforced and new ones enacted to 
leet the exigencies of the case. Have every animal killed that 
5 or has been affected with the disease, or has had the slightest 
ontact with diseased animals. The carcasses of healthy or ap- 
arently healthy animals killed by reason of contact can be sent 
3 market after proper inspection to prove that they were not in- 
uriously affected, while those that were infected should be buried 
r entirely destroyed. 
In this way, and in no other, can the plague be checked and 
ffeetually stamped out. While the present outlay of money to 
ccomplish this may be considerable, yet it will save millions of 
aoney in the future, protect the food supply of our country, and 
pen the foreign markets which have been closed against us for 
even years by reason of the existence of the disease in this 
ountry, and in the end as a matter of investment alone prove of 
ncalculable benefit to the cattle interests of the country, and iu- 
lirectly be of advantage to all consumers of animal food.— Phil¬ 
adelphia Practical Farmer . 
JANUARY VETERINARY REGULATIONS IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
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State Cattle Commission, ) 
Secretary’s Office, > 
Dedham, Mass., Sept. 20, 1886. ) 
To Mayors and Aldermen of Cities and Selectmen of Towns : 
Gentlemen :—That there may be a better observance of the 
aws relating to the suppression of contagious diseases among do- 
nestic animals in the State, the undersigned would respectfully 
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