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ease and to more ictelligent inspection of pens, yards and cars where 

 the diseased animals were kept or shipped, which is evidence of the 

 advantage to be gained by Icnowledge of the environment, habits and 

 tenacity of the disease germs we have to combat, and of the proper 

 antiseptic to be applied for their prompt extinction. 



Now since it is well established fact that the success of tlie agri- 

 culturist depends very largely upon its products, your committee wish 

 to urge upon this body the importance of distributing such informa- 

 tion amongst the farming people as will lead to the better care, feed- 

 ing and breeding of our live stock, and of exerting our efforts to pre- 

 vent the present custom of buying our supply of farm animals from 

 sources of uncertain reliability; but instead, produce a surplus, and 

 change the present loss into a sourse of revenue. 



THE ROAD PROBLEM. 



A.N ADDRESS BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL, GOOD ROADS CON- 

 GRESS, BUFFALO, SEPTEMBER 16, 190L 



liY HON. ANDREW PATULLO, Ontario, Canada. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow-Citizens of this Great 



North American Continent: 



Meeting as we do this morning in this beautiful building dedicated 

 to sacred song, where the masters of music during the memorable 

 days of this memorable year have been interpreti«g for you the divine 

 harmonies of the world, we come together to consider a very plain 

 and jH-actical question, a subject on which I fear I shall have some 

 difliculty in interesting you, a question which I fear the ordinary citi- 

 zens of your country and mine deem of little interest, but which is 

 one of the great problems of the day. This association, of which 

 Colooel Moore is the president, has been doing a work which some 

 people at least in this country appreciate, and which in after years, 

 I believe, will be appreciated by all the people of this great nation. 



We are now in the beginning of a new century. We think this an 

 age of progress, of marvelous invention and advancement; but it is 

 anextiaordinaryfact that away back in the distani ages, the Romans 

 were able to make good roads, and did make goods roads, on scientific 

 principles. And even on this hemisphere, centuries ago the original 



