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inary Surgeon did the scientific work and it was proven for the first 

 time in the history of the world, it was proven conclusively by a series 

 of scientific experiments of the severest character that Texas fever was 

 caused by the tick and by nothing else under the sun of heaven and when 

 3t was found necessary to give the average Missouri cow Texas fever, 

 we found in general that half a dozen ticks would give it and twelve 

 or thirteen were dead sure. That was not a very great performance, 

 we proved by very vigorous scientific demonstration that the hypothesis 

 which had already been advanced was a true hypothesis ; but we went 

 a step further and did one of the best things that has been done in a 

 century in veterinarv surgery. Our veterinarian discovered a method 

 by which cattle in Missouri or from any other state can be inoculated 

 against Texas fever and shipped south at any season of the year with 

 comparatively little risk of death, so that whereas in the former days 

 about ninety per cent of the blooded stock sent south from Missouri 

 to Texas died of Texas fever, now about five or six per cent of the in- 

 oculated animals die. That has opened to the raisers of improved live 

 stock in Missouri a large southern market which was effectually closed 

 against you in the past. A large number of men have taken advantage 

 of it, a vast quantity of improved and very expensive live stock have 

 been shipped into Texas after being inoculated, and one breeder of 

 English cattle, buying cattle for the far South, put it in his contract 

 that the cattle should be shipped to England by way of Columbia, Mis- 

 souri, and inoculated before they were^delivered to him. 



Some years ago the Australian government sent a special agent to 

 the United States to find out what our Department of Animal Hus- 

 bandry at Washington had been able to do in combating the Texas fever, 

 and when the man got to Washington they sent him immediately to 

 Columbia, Missouri, saying that that was headquarters of the earth for 

 work in Texas fever. He came and he was satisfied. 



Now the fact that more cattle have not been inoculated and sent 

 to Texas and other portions of the South is due to the fact that our 

 duty is to make scientific experiments. The misfortune about this in- 

 oculation is (and I want to tell you this very frankly) that the farmer 

 -cannot possibly inoculate his own cattle, but the inoculation has to be 

 done by a man who understands the business, for you can kill cattle 

 "by inoculation as well as you can kill them by Texas fever direct. Now 

 our veterinary surgeon, the man that was capable of making a discovery 

 of that sort, cannot give up his whole time to inoculating cattle to be 

 shipped into Texas, but if the State would only make an appropriation 

 — we are not going to ask them for it — but if Missouri would only make 



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