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losses have occasioned several law suits for heavy damages, by a 
number of farmers and cattle raisers. Asa result, the Supreme 
Court of the State of Illinois has lately decided that the law for 
bidding such transportation of Gulf cattle, during the summer 
months, into the State of Illinois, is unconstitutional because the 
constitution of the United States reserves to the General Govern¬ 
ment the power,to regulate commerce between the States, It is 
evident then, that in order to prevent a recurrence of the panic 
that ensued in 1868, the attention of the National Government 
must be called to this matter, with a view of having such protec¬ 
tive measures enacted as are within its province. 
In all parts of our country, tuberculosis is steadily on the in¬ 
crease among our cattle, and especially among the Shorthorns. 
Various forms of anthrax disease, especially the so-called black¬ 
leg and splenic apoplexy, have prevailed among young cattle. In 
various parts of Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois, 
cattle have been affected wish enzootic ophthalmia. 
Among sheep the prevailing diseases have been foot-rot and 
scab. Some restrictive laws are wanted to prevent the trade and 
traffic in such diseased sheep. 
The diseases of swine, most prevalent, have been carbnncular 
angina, and so-called hog cholera. The scientific investigation into 
the causes, nature and treatment of hog cholera, conducted under 
the direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture, have resulted in 
the discovery that medical treatment of this disease is useless, or 
at least profitless, and that remedial treatment must be one of 
different and improved surroundings, and bettered conditions of 
life and living in every respect. It is evident that, in order to 
protect the interests of owners of swine, as well as the public at 
large, measures of a stringent character must be instituted by leg¬ 
islative enactments, not only by each and every State, but by the 
General Government, with a view of preventing the spread of this 
plague, and finally eradicating the same from our midst. Restric¬ 
tions should be put upon the trade and traffic in hogs, in the af¬ 
fected districts, with a view of preventing movements of such stock 
until a clean bill of health has been rendered by officially appointed 
veterinarians ; and the reproduction and distribution of the con- 
