Research Prohibited

The ordinary process when a vicious disease is discovered is to isolate and experiment with methods of control and cure. But there is one disease in which this method will not be used. The U. S.-Government forbids it, for what It regards as good and sufficient reasons. Not least of these is that the disease is too vicious for study.

This disease is the hoof and mouth disease. As a matter of fact, the disease is very old. It has been ravaging Europe for a great many...

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