ARE FURTHER EXPERIMENTS NECESSARY ? 
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involves danger to the surrounding animals and causes a feeling 
of insecurity among owners and buyers which interferes with the 
movement of cattle, weakens the market, depresses prices and 
causes a lbss to breeders and feeders which soon amounts to mil¬ 
lions of dollars. That this danger might be removed and this 
loss lessened, affected animals have been slaughtered as soon as 
possible and the progress of the disease has been checked, if not 
entirely stopped. To change this course and to allow auimals 
suffering from this dangerous disease to live and graze on the 
pastures of Illinois as you propose, to go beyond this and delib¬ 
erately set ourselves about propagating this scourge in the very 
heart of the stock-growing region of America—to follow such a 
course for three or four months and in the meantime to allow the 
plague to gather renewed headway in other localities wonld be 
idiotic and inexcusable. A well-known cattleman said to me a 
few days ago that it would be criminal, and I fully coincide in 
his opinion. 
There are other parts of the country where these objections 
do not apply, and there we have been for months testing the 
contagiousness of this disease and shall impartially report the 
results. 
I hope that you will see in the facts presented above a suffi¬ 
cient reason why I should decline the proposition of the Chicago 
Live-Stock Exchange. 
EDITORIAL 
CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN THE WEST. 
The appearance of contagious pleuro-pneumonia in the West 
has, naturally, excited deep and wide-spread anxiety among the 
parties engaged in the cattle-raising interest. A large number of 
animals have already been destroyed, and possibly it may become 
necessary to add many more to the list of the condemned. The 
Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry has, so far, fully appre¬ 
ciated the importance of the work in hand, and the gravity of 
the calamity he has had to confront and overcome, and if he 
