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PLEUROPNEUMONIA IN CATTLE. 
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PKE8ENT AND PROSPECTIVE YEARLY LOSSES COMPARED WITH THE 
AMOUNT REQUISITE TO STAMP OUT LUNG PLAGUE. 
At this point we judge it well to expose, in bold tabular form, 
our present and prospective losses from lung plague, contrasted, 
with the sum necessary to stamp out this plague (once for all) 
from the United States: 
Present yearly losses from lung 
plague in tlie United States. 
$2,000,000 to $3,000,000 
Prospective yearly losses from lung 
plague. 50,000,000 
Capital represented by present 
yearly losses at 5 per cent. 
$40,000,000 to 60,000,000 
Capital represented by prospective 
yearly losses at 5 per cent. 
$1,000,000,000 
LEGISLATION NECESSARY TO SECURE THE EXTINCTION OF LUNG 
PLAGUE IN AMERICA. 
If anything more is needful to secure prompt and efficient legis¬ 
lation for the extinction of lung plague, it must be found in the 
evidence of all history, that every recorded occurrence of this 
plague which could be traced to its source has been traced to con¬ 
tagion alone ; that no new country was ever invaded where con¬ 
tagion was sufficiently guarded against; and that no unwhole¬ 
some condition of air, earth, water, food, housing, travel, priva¬ 
tion or abuse of any kind lias ever been shown to produce this 
disease in any locality into which the germs of contagion had not 
first been introduced from without. (See our last year’s report, 
pages 4 to 30.) 
Legislation for the extinction of lung plague will naturally 
divide itself into— 
1st. Measures to prevent the removal of cattle from an infected 
State , Territory or district into' another State , Territory or dis¬ 
trict; and 
2 d. Measures to discover and seclude all infected herds , and 
to promptly stamp out the infection. 
REGULATIONS FOR THE EXPORT OF CATTLE FROM AN INFECTED STATE, 
TERRITORY OR DISTRICT. 
Every possible consideration with regard to lung plague 
would require that no cattle shall be allowed to pass out of any 
Sum required to stamp out lung 
plague in the United States.$2,000,000 
Cost of stamping out lung plague.. 2,000,000 
Capital required to stamp out lung 
plague. 2,000,000 
Capital required to stamp out lung . 
plague. 2 , 000,000 
