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probable results to be attained by the labor of such a bureau 
there is one vastly more important than, all, and that is the 
urgent necessity for immediate action. Consternation may well 
be engendered in the minds of our cattle raisers when they review 
the ravages which contagious pleuro-pneumonia is making in 
several of our States, and remember that it is but a matter of 
conjecture how long it will be confined to its present limits 
Others will be as greatly alarmed for the safety of their invest¬ 
ments, by seeing the swine plague sweep through the land and 
in a single year destroy more than two millions of hogs. Our 
disasters, seeming never to come singly, are augmented by the 
appearance of foot and mouth disease in American sheep recently 
landed in England, and results in another embargo against 
American exports. Combine this with the rapid spread of 
tuberculosis among our cattle, the insidnous and unchecked 
growth of glanders and farcy in our larger cities, and the 
lamentable frequency of trichinosis in our hogs, and a truthful 
picture is presented of the dangers by which we are daily beset. 
Fully appreciating the need for legislative interference by which 
to arresff these plagues, the United States Veterinary Medical 
Association at its last annual meeting appointed a committee to 
devise means by which the attention of Congress may be directed 
to the actual state of affairs at present existing, and to urge upon 
that body the propriety of instituting such measures as shall look 
to effectual and permanent relief. Longer delay in organizing a 
department whose duty shall be investigation of the causes of 
disease in the lower animals, and how they may be prevented, 
must prove a wilful neglect of a serious duty that threatens 
disaster to one of the most important interests of our country. 
THE AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE TO ARMY VETERINARIANS. 
At the last meeting of the Board of Faculty of the American 
Veterinary College, an important resolution to veterinary prac¬ 
titioners in the army was unanimously adopted and recommended 
to the Board of Trustees. We call the attention of our friends in 
the army to the resolution, and hope that the generous and friend- 
