EDITORIAL. 
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REPORT OF THE CATTLE COMMISSION OF NEW JERSEY. 
Dr. Corlies, one of the veterinary surgeons to this Commission, 
makes a report to the Governor’s agent on the 15th of December. 
After having been engaged in an attempt to free the State of 
contagious pleuro-pneumonia, for the previous eight months, we 
lind set forth in concise terms, the measures which have been 
adopted for the suppression of the disease; some of the obstacles 
met with; an expression of opinion as to the value of methods 
that should or should not be adopted; the number of animals 
that have been examined by the inspectors ; the number found 
diseased and the number destroyed ; but wisely refraining from 
an opinion as to the condition of the State regarding the preva¬ 
lence of the disease at the present time. New Jersey is not yet 
clear of this golague, and she will not be so long as she continues 
to release from quarantine, after a period of ninety days, animals 
that have had the disease. 
PETITION TO CONGRESS. 
At the annual meeting of the Philadelphia Society for the Pro¬ 
motion of Agriculture, Dr. Gadsden called attention to the subject 
of contagious pleuro-pneumonia, and after remarks by different 
members Mr. Burnett Landreth offered the following preamble 
and resolution, which were adopted: 
Whereas, It is patent that the ravages of the “ lung plague,” 
or pleuro-pneumonia, can only be arrested by heroic measures, 
be it 
Resolved , By the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of 
Agriculture, that the General Government be urgently requested 
to take such action as will prevent the transport of cattle from in¬ 
fected districts in the seaboard to the interior, which will certainly 
be infected unless decisive action be taken by the United States 
Board of Health, or other proper department. 
