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trade lias since then been carried on, and that diseased cattle have 
been allowed to travel without any molestation whatever. For 
these reasons we are anxiously longing for the appointment of 
the Commission and tlie Chief Veterinary Inspector. The quali¬ 
fications and acquirements of a good diagnostician, a good pathol¬ 
ogist, and a good sanitarian, with good executive ability, will be 
necessary in the man who will have the duties of the office to 
perform, and certainly the veterinary profession is not at present 
overcrowded with men possessing the accomplishments required. 
Whoever he may be, he will, no doubt, share the sympathy and 
good feeling of the profession in the State and at large ; good 
feeling, which will insure him needed assistance in his labors, and 
sympathy, if failure should characterize the end of his efforts, 
resulting from similar causes to those which have before operated. 
This action of our Legislature, however tardy, must be ac¬ 
cepted by all as a full recognition of the necessity of stamping 
out the disease. But if New York has been slow to act, other 
States have not been; for, in all directions, we hear the expres¬ 
sion of great anxiety, in view of the possibility of the lung 
plague spreading among our western herds. The action of the 
Wyoming Cattle Association, in appointing a special veterinarian 
to inspect cattle for the dreaded infection; the proposition in the 
great State of Iowa to establish a veterinary bureau to protect 
her immense wealth in cattle, are all indications of the dread 
with which the cattle-raisers of those portions of our territory 
view the possibility of the appearance of the disease—a dread 
which is not exaggerated, and will be fully comprehended by all 
who are acquainted with its insidious, but not the less destructive, 
march. It is a fear which is too well-grounded and rational to 
bo overlooked, when it is remembered that it needs but one ani¬ 
mal to carry death and ruin amongst our western herds. 
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