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CASTRATION OF THE STALLION. 
than anything else, and if we leave the seed of this scourge to 
propagate itself on our Eastern seaboard, this is what will happen 
to us sooner or later. 
On every ground, therefore, of commercial economy, of finan¬ 
cial foresight, of the attainability of the necessary legislation, or 
of the assurance of the complete and permanent extinction of the 
malady to be dealt with, it may be safely claimed that lung 
plague demands the first measure of veterinary sanitary legis¬ 
lation. To neglect it is to work a ruinous and irretrievable loss 
which must forever after bear an invariable relation to our grow¬ 
ing herds, and with this increase would ere long reach $100,- 
000,000 in place of $50,000,000 per annum. The restriction of 
any one of our other animal plagues may be postponed without 
the overshadowing dangers that threaten from the neglect of this, 
and no one of these plagues give the same assurance of a com¬ 
plete and early extinction of the poison under the application of 
the proper methods. To handicap any bill for the extinction of 
this disease with provisions for the control of any other affection 
I cannot but consider as ruinous to the cause not of anti-lung 
plague only, but of all veterinary sanitary legislation and work. 
It is undoubtedly our duty as sanitarians and citizens to do all 
in our power to secure by legislation and every other available 
means the suppression of one and all of the animal plagues of 
which I have been speaking ; but as it is impracticable to secure 
all this at once, as the demand of the whole would infallibly lose 
us the whole, and the lung plague is at once the most urgent and 
the best plague to deal with*, and that on which we can go to 
work with the most perfect confidence of complete success, this 
should be provided for in a separate bill which should furnish 
ample power and means, and should have precedence of others. 
{To be continued .) 
CASTRATION OF THE STALLION AND CRYPT0RCHIDE, WITH 
AND WITHOUT RESTRAINT. 
I start with the proposition that, practically considered, the 
operation of castration of the stallion, (by various well recognized 
