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EDITORIAL. 
submit it for their appreciation and criticism. We regret that 
the length of the subject will not allow it to be published in a 
single number, though we will endeavor to have it complete be¬ 
fore our readers as soon as possible. 
NEW AUSTRALIAN VETERINARY JOURNAL. 
A new veterinary journal, edited by three members of the 
profession, fellows and members of the Royal College of 
Veteriniary Surgeons, has been started in Australia, under the 
name of The Australian Veterinary Journal. The paper will 
be issued monthly, and the appearance and contents of the first 
number justifies us in believing that it will be successful in its 
career, a result for which it may be certain of our sincere wishes. 
LEGISLATION NEEDED FOR THE PREVENTION OF PLEURO-PNEU- 
MONIA. 
The pleuro-pneumonia controversy which is now attracting 
so much attention in Pennsylvania is not without a lesson. It 
leads us to repeat what we have already said, i. e., that the meas¬ 
ures adopted by the different States are wholly ineffective in 
eradicating this disease from our midst. So long as the laws are 
so short-sighted and imperfect as at present, we can hope for 
nothing, and we are forced to the conclusion above stated. 
There are but two things for us as veterinarians to do. The 
first (and it is what we most earnestly hope for) is to secure legis¬ 
lation, by the General Government and by the different States, by 
means of which this pestilence may be “stamped out” and 
second, to acknowledge the permanent footing of contagious pleu¬ 
ro-pneumonia in America , and endeavor to reduce the annual 
losses from the same by the practice of inoculation. 
What have been the chief obstacles in the way of our having 
had efficient legislation in reference to this disease t 
First, the fact that cattle owners themselves have not pos¬ 
sessed an accurate knowledge of the character of the disease, the 
losses entailed and its mode of spreading; second, the resistance 
