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grape, scab and leaf bligbt of the pear, apple powdery mildew, peach 

 yellows, mildews upon plants under glass, cranberry scald, cranberry 

 gall fungus, and apple scab ; the copper salts as fungicides; notes on 

 fungicides and a new spraying pump; prevention of smut in oats and 

 other cereals ; observations on the development of some fenestrate spori- 

 dia ; new species of fungi ; reviews of recent literature, and the first 

 part of an index to current North American mycological literature. 



BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 

 special bulletin. 



Proceedings of an inierstate convention of cattlemen 

 HELD AT Fort Worth, Texas, March 11-13, 1890 (pp. 102).— This 

 convention was attended by about four hundred delegates, appointed 

 for the most part by the governors of Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Ari- 

 zona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Arkansas, Nebraska, Indian Terri- 

 tory, and Wyoming, besides a large number of other cattlemen from the 

 States and Territories named. H. B. Stoddard, of Texas, was chosen 

 president, and L. E. Finch, of Kansas, secretary. A carefully con- 

 sidered address by (;ol. W. L. Black, of Fort McKavett, Texas, advocated 

 State bureaus of information that might lead up to a cattle growers' 

 exchange. The object of these bureaus would be to make a correct 

 record of the available supply and probable demand for live stock, ac- 

 cording to age and sex, in order that an intelligent opinion might be 

 formed in advance as to the value of animals grown on the farms. Our 

 live stock industry is so extended thattheaccumulatedshipmentsfrom all 

 the producing States and Territories now render it impossible for a ship- 

 per to tell what numbers of live s<"ock are being moved and prepared 

 for shipment to the prominent markets of our country from day to day ; 

 but it is believed that by a system of telegraphic and mail information 

 under co-operative direction of bureaus of information in the several 

 States, the quantity of live stock shipped or in preparation for ship- 

 ment from each State daily can be easily ascertained, and that this in- 

 formation would be of great assistance to shippers in avoiding glutted 

 markets. 



A vote was passed in favor of the inspection of American meats by 

 the general government, on the ground that this would give our meats 

 such a guarantee of purity and healthfulness that there would no longer 

 beany excuse for restrictions against their importation into foreign coun- 

 tries. Measures for the prevention and extermination of pleuropueu- 

 monia, splenic, and "Texas fever" were discussed, and the work of this 

 Department in these lines was indorsed. The establishment of deep- 

 water haKbors on the Gulf of Mexico, and of refrigerator slaughter- 

 houses at various points in Texas, with sufficient capacity to handle the 

 surplus beef for export from the great regions of the Southwest, was 

 strocgly favored. 



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