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food, and to tlie congregation of diseased animals, especially in 
crowded cities. It lias affected the health of the people to an ex¬ 
tent becoming appreciable the more the subject is investigated. 
The importance of the subject, however, demands the same regu¬ 
lar, systematic, and constant investigation that is devoted to hu¬ 
man maladies. If stout-constitutioned animals can be demon¬ 
strated to be dying chiefly from preventable diseases, it is evident 
how much would be saved to the farmers and to the nation, b% 
reducing the mortality to a minimum. 
In my remarks concerning veterinary sanitary reform, read be¬ 
fore the National Agricultural Congress, at its meeting in Wash- 
ington, I made reference to the great scarcity of competent 
veterinarians in the United States; and I feel constrained 
to repeat that the immense losses among live stock in this 
country, is greatly to be accounted for in the absence of 
a sufficient number of men who have been thoroughly and 
scientifically educated in this branch of medical science. That 
the great multitude of intelligent farmers and live stock 
owners in America should be obliged to contend with quacks 
and charlatans of the lowest description, while all other civilized 
nations (some of them as far back as a hundred years ago), have 
been provided by their Governments with amply endowed veteri¬ 
nary colleges, is beyond all sound reasoning—is, in fact, nothing 
less than a national disgrace, and justly merits the derision of 
other nations. 
Glanders and farcy have prevailed, and prevail to some extent 
here and there in all of the western states and territories, among 
horses and mules; more so than is generally known or suspected. 
The importance of stringent legislation for the extinction of these 
twin diseases, is evident to any one at all acquainted with the 
dangers attending their unlimited spread, and their total incura¬ 
bility. 
Among horned cattle, the contagious plenro-pneumonia has, 
during the past year, thanks to the British Government, received 
a forced consideration by our Government, and some headway has 
been made towards its extinction ; but, as yet, no laws have been 
enacted by Congress for the purpose of preventing its spread from 
