EDITORIAL. 
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As soon iis lie was appointed, in February last, the Doctor set 
himself to hard work, and has no doubt well employed his time, 
if we can judge by the extracts from the report which.was sent to 
us, and which we reproduce in the Review. 
This is, properly speaking, the first official paper that the pro¬ 
fession has read, and the first also which presents to all the true 
state of affairs relating to that cattle lung disease; and when one 
reads it, if he takes into consideration the amount of good 
work done by the different State Commissions, in the shape of 
stamping out, and adds to it the remaining existing condition, can 
he wonder any longer at the anxiety expressed by our Govern¬ 
ment or that of Canada and of England. 
Let now the Commissioner of Agriculture direct Dr. Lyman 
to make the same investigation for tuberculosis in cattle, for 
glanders and farcy in horses, for anthrax fever—in fact for all the 
contagions diseases which exist more or less all over our continent. 
And then, when there will remain no more doubt, of the vast 
existence of pleuro-pnemnonia in our midst, and also of the 
constant threat of its possible spreading amongst cattle of the 
plains; when it will he shown how much tuberculosis prevails 
amongst our milking cows, and by its presence endangers the lives 
of our people ; when it is proved that glanders and farcy are 
to he found daily in our stables and in the streets of our large 
cities, can Congress ignore any longer the dangers, and refuse the 
means for the establishment of the proper measures to get rid of 
these terrible scourges, constant sources of heavy losses to our 
commerce and our general wealth ; can the necessity for the 
establishment of a National Veterinary Bureau he any longer 
overlooked ? 
NOTICE. 
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have mailed to our subscribers a statement of their indebtedness. 
As we have already stated, all surplus paid to us by subscribers 
being intended to he used for improvements in our publication, 
our friends will see the necessity of an early settlement of their 
