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III. We would strongly recommend to the Missouri Legislature the importance 

 to the live stock industry of our State of enacting a law preventing the adulteration 

 of stock foods and charging the Experiment Station with the enforcement of the same 

 in a similar manner that Is now provided for the regulation of the sale of commercial 

 fertilizers. 



IV. "We would further recommend that the Missouri Legislature enact, at its 

 next session, a suitable pure food law, and require that the Experiment Station 

 analyze each year all brands of prepared commercial foods, drugs and liquors 

 intended for human consumption. 



V. Resolved, That we heartily endorse the purpose of the American Reciprocity 

 Convention, lately in session at Chicago, and the Reciprocal Tariff League, appointed 

 by said convention, in its efforts to preserve and enlarge our foreign trades ; and 

 that we urge upon our representatives at Wasliington that they use every legitimate 

 means to establish more rational trade relations between America and Continental 

 Europe, and especially with Germany ; that a copy of this resolution be sent to the 

 President of the United States and to Missouri's Congressmen and Senators. 



Resolutions relating to the extermination of the Texas fever tick 

 in the quarantined states : 



Dr. Conway: Mr, Chairman and Members of the Association — 1 

 wish to call the attention of the Association to resolutions that were 

 passed at a meeting of the Association of the Commissioners of the Cot- 

 ton Growing States, held recently at Richmond, Virginia. 



These resolutions relate to the extermination of the southern cattle 

 ticks ("Boophilus annulatus"), which transmit Texas fever from infected 

 to non-infected cattle. 



There are fourteen states and territories lying wholly or in part within 

 the Texas fever quarantined district. 



This vast territory is capable of increasing the cattle production many 

 fold under the better conditions, which the people of that section are 

 earnestly working for. 



As breeders of improved cattle, you know what a serious drawback 

 Texas fever has been for many years to the cattle traffic between the 

 north and the south. At present immunisation by inoculation is proving 

 of great benefit ; but this process, as valuable as it has proven to be, is at 

 best a necessary evil, and will never fuly meet the needs of the situation. 

 The radical cure of exterminating the ticks must be the ultimate solution 

 of the question. That this is feasible has been clearly demonstrated in 

 various parts of the south. 



The clearing from ticks of areas of considerable extent has already 

 been accomplished, and this has led to a desire, on the part of the Com- 

 missioners of Agriculture and many stockmen, for the inauguration of 

 co-operative action on the part of the quarantined states and the Fed- 

 eral government, in order that more rapid and more effective work may 

 be doije. 



Their resolutions are as follows : 



Whereas, The appearance and spread of the Mexican cotton boll weevil over the 

 entire cotton-producing area of the United States forces upon the south a new regime 

 In agricultui-e, that is, diversification ; and. 



