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THE PLAGUE IN KANSAS. 
unjust. If ever there was a question which in its future bearing 
affected the United States as a whole it is this. 
“ It would be highly appropriate that the agriculturists of the 
different States, Western and Southern, as well as Eastern, 
should petition Congress to take this matter up and adopt such 
measures as would forever rid our country of this most 
insidious of all animal plagues. At all hazards the work ought 
to be done^and that speedily. If State rights stand in the way, let 
the money at least be supplied, as it rightfully ought, from the 
National exchequer, and applied by the different States through 
their own officials under the supervision of some responsible de¬ 
partment—say the Agricultural Bureau, a Live Stock Disease 
Commission, the National Board of Health, or even the Treasury 
Department. It is folly and worse to quarrel about the means 
until the plague shall have passed beyond control. Action is 
wanted, of a prompt and decisive nature, by the General Govern¬ 
ment or with its assistance, and those who are most deeply inter¬ 
ested in the subject should press this upon the Government until 
such action shall have been secured.” 
THE PLAGUE IN KANSAS. 
REPORT OF THE VETERINARIAN OF THE UNITED STATES 
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 
(From the Northwestern Live Stock Journal.) 
Prof. Salmon, the veterinarian of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture, has submitted his official report in regard to the disease 
from which cattle have recently suffered in various parts of the 
West. He says that the cattle disease in Kansas, which has at¬ 
tracted so much attention from its supposed identity with the 
contagious foot and mouth disease of Europe, was first noticed 
last December in a herd located four miles northwest of Neosho. 
On March 13th there were 118 head of cattle on the farm where 
the disease had appeared, and 74 were more or less affected 
—nine animals had one foot off, four had two feet off, three 
others were affected in but one, six in tw T o feet and one in three 
feet. This disease spread to adjoining farms very rapidly. 
