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steamboats and barges bringing store cattle to the New York 
markets, were compelled to land them at our yards for inspection 
and distribution. 
Orders were promulgated prohibiting dealers from keeping 
cows on sale in their own stables or moving cows from one stable 
to another, effectually doing away with all peddling. The great 
step was now attained and movement of cows simplified to going 
from the yards to the stables and from the stables to the slaughter 
houses. Gentlemen, you can easily imagine that New York and 
Brooklyn are practically in a state of thorough quarantine. 
Now, if you will add to these rules the liberal indemnity al¬ 
lowed by the State for such diseased animals as are reported, you 
can see how little is to be gained by any dairyman concealing the 
existence of the disease. 
But the establishment and enforcing of these regulations has 
not been a work to receive, as one might suppose, the hearty 
co-operation of our leading agriculturists, our agricultural press, 
or even of all the members of the veterinary profession. From 
the very first, the journal, which in our State stands highest as 
an exponent of live stock interest, has taken every opportunity 
to throw doubt on the existence of the disease. The executive 
committee of the New York State Agricultural Society, even after 
the infected district had been very accurately marked out by the 
labors of the veterinary staff, passed resolutions to give publicity 
to their opinion that there were grave doubts in regard to the 
contagious character of the malady as it exists in this State. But 
worse than all, gentlemen, was the opposition that came from 
members of own profession—from men holding the diplomas of 
leading veterinary institutions, to whom the public looked for 
sound advice based upon thorough professional knowledge. 
The opposition of quacks and cattle dealers need not be men¬ 
tioned ; it was expected, and treated with that contempt which at 
once consigned it to oblivion, but the disaffection of the press, 
the Agricultural Society and members of the profession could 
not be so easily passed over in silence. A wise policy of public 
post mortem examinations, however,to which the most noted critics 
of our policy were invited, and the publication of typical cases 
