EDITORIAL. 
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which should be taken to secure protection against its further 
spreading. In a single day the Legislature lent its aid by appro¬ 
priating $10,000 with which to defray the expenses of the stamp¬ 
ing out and quarantining process adopted by the inspectors, and 
the Governor appointed Gen. Patrick to superintend the thorough 
execution of all orders. 
This decided action taken by the State of New York, with the 
general publicity given it by the press, could not fail to command 
the attention of authorities in surrounding States, and so Connec¬ 
ticut, in her watchfulness, at once detected the broken quarantine 
made by an infected herd within her limits, and by informing the 
Board of Health of the City of New York, secured their deten¬ 
tion, official inspection, and destruction. 
New Jersey, fully awake from her long lethargy in the matter, 
is reported to be earnestly discussing measures that shall look to 
the extermination of the disease within her territory. 
This, then, is the condition of affairs at the moment so far as 
pleuro-pneumonia is concerned. Let us look at the exigencies of 
the case and see what precautionary measures are demanded. 
First, in the minds of the public at least, is the threatened 
destruction to our rapidly-growing export trade in live cattle. 
This has within a short time become an important industry, esti¬ 
mated at many millions of dollars, and it is to our own interest 
that it should be adequately protected. To accomplish this it will 
be necessary to satisfy foreign governments that our animals are 
free from infectious and contagious diseases. 
But valuable as this traffic has become, its threatened destruc¬ 
tion is not the most serious danger which besets us on the part of 
contagious pleuro-pneumonia ; the comparative ease with which 
the disease would spread as an epizootic, infecting the great herds 
of the West, from which it could scarcely ever be eradicated, 
thereby crippling forever our live stock exports, and entailing a 
pecuniary loss not to be estimated, is the culminating calamity 
against which the strong arm of the law should now be invoked. 
While the disease is confined to a few well known localities, 
as it is to-day, it can easily be stamped out, and our country 
effectually rid of its presence for all future time, unless it should 
