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an appropriation for inoculation at Columbia that would warrant us in 

 employing a number of men to conduct the work — not so skillful as our 

 head veterinarian, and yet skillful enough, we would undertake it very 

 cheerfully. When we inoculate cattle, we do not charge anything for 

 the inoculation. We charge for the board of the animal, the hay and 

 grain that he eats, and he does not eat much for he is sick during the 

 process of the inoculation : and once in a great while, one in a hundred 

 of the animals die in the process. We also insist upon having a groom 

 sent along with the animal to take charge of it under the direction of 

 the verterinary surgeon. 



A man capable of making a discovery of that sort we have engaged 

 on other sort of work, and he is now trying to find a remedy against 

 the hog cholera and other diseases. We cannot afford to let him take 

 his time inoculating cattle. 



Before the close of the last century, a veterinary magazine of prom- 

 inence in veterinary science, in summing up the development in. veteri- 

 nary science during the last hundred years said there have been three 

 great- discoveries in veterinary science riiade on earth during that time, 

 and one of them was the method of inoculating against Texns fever 

 discovered by John W. Connaway at Columbia ; and, by the way, he was 

 a Cedar county boy without much training. He took the train to go lo 

 Warrensburg and make a teacher of himself, but before he got to War- 

 rensburg, somebody suggested to him that he go on to Columbia. He 

 cam.e and has been there ever since he graduated. He refuses ofifers 

 of a larger salary. He declines and does not say anything about it, 

 and he is so busy in scientific discovery that it is a matter of great dif- 

 ficulty to hunt him up and deliver his check to him. We have raised 

 his salary and raised his salary and he has never known anything about 

 it until his check came in for a larger amount and his salary has never 

 been discussed between him and the other officers. The University really 

 ought to pay him more than we do. 



Now most of you are cattlemen; you are experienced in that line, 

 and you know very well that, while I take immense interest in it, I 

 am not an expert in cattle feeding, therefore, to be frank with you, I 

 am afraid to go into too great detail for fear I should get something 

 wrong. I had just as well start out by telling the truth. The cattle 

 feeding of the Station at Columbia is, so far as I know, unexcelled by 

 that which has been done at any other station in the Federal Union. 

 That is general and that is also modest. If you will tell me a station in 

 the Federal Union that has done better work in the last seven years in 

 experimental cattle feeding than has been done at Columbia, Missouri, 

 I would like to know the name of the station. I won't contradict you, 



