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EDITORIAL. 
their labor should be impeded from this cause when success 
seemed possible. Restricting the expenditure of money, in this 
case, to thirty-five thousand dollars, when the disease was known 
to be so generally prevalent and difficult to deal with, was a 
grave shortsightedness on the part of our last Legislature, which 
will postpone the final day of eradication if it does not affect us 
even more seriously. New Jersey, with her claims to having in¬ 
stituted effective quarantine, has, in spite of these and her de¬ 
fective stamping out process, a full share of diseased animals. 
The want of money cannot be pleaded there as the cause of any 
failure which may eventually determine itself. Pennsylvania, 
judging from an article reproduced in this issue, is also earnestly 
prosecuting her labors with confidence of future success. 
To a sanguine mind that which has been already accomplished 
might seem indicative of an early relief from further danger, but 
the critical observer will not forget that inefficient measures and 
their lax application must indefinitely prolong the presence of the 
disease in different parts of the country, and then serve to main¬ 
tain a general danger of infection to the whole country. For 
years past we have been told by Dr. Thayer, of Massachusetts, 
that all the Eastern States, with the exception of Connecticut, 
were entirely clear of this disease, yet on Saturday, the 20th ult., 
the New York Times contained an account of an outbreak in 
New Hampshire. We are somewhat doubtful as to the reliabil¬ 
ity of the report, but if it is true, the probabilities are that Massa¬ 
chusetts, surrounded as she is by three infected States, is or may 
become easily infected, and the stamping out process, effectually 
adopted some fifteen years ago, may need enforcement again. 
The simple fact of the matter is, no one knows to what extent the 
disease is prevalent in our Eastern and Middle States, and the 
sooner the National Government and the State Legislatures take 
measures for determining this point, the better will it be for the 
safety of our live stock interests both at home and abroad. 
Some of the effects of tampering with such matters is seen in the 
“ penny wise and pound foolish ” economy of New York State in 
appropriating but thirty-five thousand dollars with which to de¬ 
fray the expenses of the Cattle Commission for one year. At 
