EDITORIAL. 
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western papers, but which the doctor denies entirely, we cannot 
avoid thinking how much more difficult the task of getting rid of 
the disease would be if the report is correct—indeed, would it be 
possible then to stamp out this fearful disease ? 
We have been told again and again that the eastern States, 
and few of them at that, were the infected ones, and now this 
limited ground is made to spread to our western markets ! ! 
Where do the diseased cattle come from ? Where does the extent 
of the disease stop ? 
Will the problem of eradicating the disease by stamping out 
be attempted ? or will other means be recommended so as to anni¬ 
hilate the disastrous effects of the disease ? 
Will the General Government establish theYeterinary Sanitary 
Department, whieh has so often been recommended by veterina¬ 
rians as well as by those interested in agricultural pursuits and 
investigations ? 
Will the respective States make other attempts, and appropri¬ 
ate funds for the carrying out of measures which would have most 
probably proved successful had they not been suddenly stopped 
on account of lack of funds to be placed in the hands of Boards 
of Health, whose labors is to say the least useless ? 
Can the question of State rights be overlooked and general 
legislation be created by which one and all States will be submitted 
to similar sanitary laws? Why not. If the National Board of 
Health has succeeded in organizing their work, why would a Yeti- 
nary Sanitary Board be less successful ? 
And again, if such organization or bureau was created, under 
what department would it be placed ? 
All these are questions the solution of which all people inter¬ 
ested in cattle trade, are anxiously looking for, and to which 
no veterinarian in the country will remain indifferent, if he fully 
realizes the importance of the part he will have to fulfil when the 
laws which will solve these problems will have to be executed. 
The veterinary profession of England is already heavily in¬ 
debted to Mr. George Fleming for the immense amount of good 
