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of the State Board of Health ; and Resolved, that we approve 
of the present organization and methods of the State Board 
of Health for dealing with infectious diseases of domestic 
animals.” 
New York Herds Filling with Tuberculous Impor¬ 
tations. —The Genesee Valley Veterinary Medical Associaton 
at its January meeting adopted resolutions calling upon the 
New York Legislature to enact laws prohibiting the importa¬ 
tion into the State of tuberculous cattle, claiming that the dis¬ 
ease is rapidly increasing in Western New York, as such dis¬ 
eased animals, prohibited from being disposed of in adjoining 
States on account of stringent laws, are brought into New York 
in large quantities. There seems to be no question but that 
our cattle interests are suffering in consequence of this laxity in 
the State laws, and now that the Agricultural Department is 
about to supersede the figure-head Tuberculosis Commission, 
such agitation on the part of veterinary organizations is apt to 
strike a responsive chord, and some steps be taken to stay the 
progress of such contaminating influences. 
A High Tribute. —The Veterinary Journal (London), 
which can see but little in America worthy of commendation 
from a veterinary standpoint, devotes more than a page to review¬ 
ing the report of the proceedings of the 1899 meeting of the Amer¬ 
ican Veterinary Medical Association, and wonders why English 
veterinary societies have never published their minutes in book 
form. It condescends to admit that u by means of these pro¬ 
ceedings we are enabled to form a fairly accurate conception of 
the tendency to scientific methods which is obtaining among 
American practitioners.” It concludes : “ We repeat, that in 
these proceedings we have the means of gauging the march of 
progress in America, and it is a pity that no British society pro¬ 
vides us with a similar compilation.” We can tell our esteemed 
contemporary that there are many things in the veterinary pro¬ 
fession in this country which our cousins would do well to 
emulate. 
Happy Result from Ovariotomy. —At the clinic of the 
American Veterinary Medical Association last September, Prof. 
W. L. Williams operated upon a thoroughbred filly supplied by 
Dr. William Sheppard, of Sheepshead Bay, he giving the his¬ 
tory that she was possessed of great speed but absolutely refused 
to run, and was vicious, balky and intractable. The doctor 
performed the operation of ovariotomy through the vagina very 
cleverly, and we promised our readers that we would acquaint 
