EDITORIAL. 
51 
United States, have for a long time been comprehended by the 
governments of Europe, where sanitary veterinary departments 
are fully organized, and where it devolves upon Government Vet¬ 
erinarians to perform the duties belonging to them, and which 
they alone are qualified by education and experience to under¬ 
take with safety and advantage to the public. 
Another important benefit attainable by the appointment of 
the officers referred to is this: The question of State Rights in 
connection with the measures necessary to the stamping out of 
pleuro-pneumonia has been, doubtless, more or less in the way of 
accomplishing the object in view and eradicating the disease from 
our State. Possibly even the Veterinary Bureau of the Agricul¬ 
tural Department in Washington might find, to-day, some diffi¬ 
culties in doing much, should it make an attempt to stamp out 
that disease. But how simplified would the work become, and 
how much better could measures be agreed upon, if, by consulta¬ 
tion and agreement by these State Veterinarians and the repre¬ 
sentative of the Agricultural Bureau, regular sanitary measures 
were decided upon and permanently established. The Sanitary 
Veterinary Bureau (we might call it), thus composed, would be 
able to render the country immense service, by protecting our 
trade against the losses which otherwise it will surely suffer so 
long as those diseases are amongst us, and placing the United 
States in the position which they are bound to reach as the great 
live-stock market of the world. 
A NEW OUTBREAK OF PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
Another outbreak of contagious pleuro-pneumonia is reported 
by Dr. J. D. Hopkins, on the farm of Mr. James A. Hoyt, at 
Patterson, Putnam County, N. Y., amongst a herd of 40 head of 
registered Jerseys. The contagion is supposed to come from 
Baltimore, Md., or Sterling, Morris County, N. J. None of the 
farmers where Mr. Hoyt bought cattle last October have had the 
disease. Six head (three bulls and three cows) have died ; and 
at the time the report reaches us, a three-year-old bull, which was 
very sick, is probably dead. 
