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EDITORIAL. 
of inoculation as a preventive of contagious pleuro-pneumonia. 
There is no question among veterinarians as to the efficacy of in 
oculation in limiting the spread of this disease, nor in reducing 
the death-rate. But will it exterminate the plague? No! By 
advocating inoculation we give rise to a false security. We en¬ 
courage all those whose cattle are affected by this disease to hinder 
and oppose the radical laws which we must enact if we are ever 
to be free from it. Prof. Paquin must realize this. Let us then 
cease to speak of inoculation even, until we prove ourselves un¬ 
able to rid the country of this exotic plague. Inoculation meansj 
contagious pleuro-pneumonia forever; it does not hint at exter¬ 
mination. Let us emulate in Missouri the good work done in 
Massachusetts.—(M.) 
Our Delegate to the Cattlemen’s Convention. —We have 
received a communication from Dr. Gadsden, who had kindly 
ao-reed to act as delegate of the Review before the Cattlemen’s 
Convention, which was held in Chicago on the 15th, 16th and 
17th of last month. After relating the results of his investiga¬ 
tions, which so evidently helped him to prove beyond doubt the 
existence of contagious pleuro-pneumonia, and assisted him in 
converting many unbelievers in the presence of the disease, our 
friendly correspondent calls our attention to the action of the 
Convention relating to the resolutions passed by the veterinary 
association concerning the adoption of the stamping-out process 
with appropriated indemnity to the owners, and the prohibition of 
inoculation as a means of arresting the progress of the disease. 
We understand that the following extract from the report of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry has been of much assistance to Dr. 
Gadsden in obtaining the points for which he was fighting: 
Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 1885—p. 145. 
“It has also been observed that inoculated animals are dangerous to other? 
for an indefinite time after the operation. Probably this is due to the fact that 
such animals were really recovered cases of pleuro-pneumonia. A herd of ani¬ 
mals inoculated with pleuro-pneumonia virus is consequently an infected herd, 
and should be treated as such, * * * but if the malady is to be extirpated, 
the whole herd must be slaughtered. In no other way can there be a certainty 
that all affected animals are destroyed, or that the contagion is extinguished.” 
