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Dr. JVIelvin : It is a question whether these animals were con- 

 demned or not. There may have been some condemned and some 

 passed. We find in some instances, particularly when they are 

 shipping small hogs ; in some instances there will be from 90 to 100 

 per cent condemned when they get into the packing house. This 

 statement I have shows that during the past fiscal year there were 

 4,506 hogs condemned for hog cholera; so there have been a good 

 many practicing the same thing. 



A Member: We had another case, just about a year ago. A 

 man loaded up his hogs and brought them into our town; on the 

 road two of them died; they were thrown out of the wagon. He 

 hauled the rest in and sold them to a butcher, and in the meantime 

 he brought in another load and sold them to the shipper. When 

 the shipper went to load those hogs, he noticed them staggering ; the 

 bank was closed in the meantime, too late to pay at the bank, and 

 so in the meantime he called and took a veterinary do^vn there, and 

 there had three more died, and two or three more were sick. He 

 notified this party that he would have to bum them up or bury 

 them. Well, the party refused to do it. In the meantime there 

 were eight of those left, but they were diseased, you could see that 

 by their appearance, and from the way they acted. The shipper 

 didn 't want to get into a lawsuit, and held those hogs three or four 

 days and shipped them into Chicago. I saw the bill myself when 

 it came back for those hogs and they went through. 



Dr. Melvin : I don 't know where thej'' were killed in Chicago, I 

 am sure. 



Question: I understand, they could have been condemned and 

 the shipper knew nothing about if? 



Dr. Melvin : He says the shipper received his pay for them. If 

 he received the market value for them, the packer must have stood 

 the loss. 



QuESTiOjs' : What is the practical method of disinfection in case 

 of tuberculosis as to pastures? 



Dr. Melvin : Practically nothing. The bacilli soon dies in the 

 sun and air. Nature itself would soon disinfect it. 



Question: If a cow is heavy with calf, isn't it the case they 

 would react sometimes when they wouldn't otherwise? 



Dr. ]\Ielvin : Yes, sir ; we have found that to be true in a very 

 large number of tests made. There were about three per cent 

 really mistakes, that were made on account of advanced pregnancy. 



