CATTLE DISEASE IN AMERICA.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1311, 23 November 1880, Page 3

CATTLE DIS EASE IN AMERICA.

Professor Gamgee writes to the Times directing attention to the fact that the same conditions which retarded his work in England, and delayed rational legislation as against cattle diseased, for a quarter of a century, prevailed in the United States. Indeed, the conflict between National Government and States' rights aggregates the difficulties. A State like Massachusetts may exterminate a plague within its limits ; but it is almost impossible to secure the same intelligent action wherever it may be imperatively needed. The Eastern States are infected with pleuro-pneumonia, but the Washington Cabinet and Congress are powerless. The enforcement of our laws in England can alone awaken sufficient interest and create a public opinion, without which statesmen are even more powerless there than with us; From this point of view it is evident that British legislation against the import of disease may lead to measures which will permanently rid America of imported bovine pestilenoe. The enforcement of British laws Is of as much importance to the American breeder and grazier as it is to the British farmer. — iY. B. Agriculturist,