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posnre, remain ; they liave not yet been examined. All the money raised for the 

 purchase of infected herds has been expended. 



We are still sanguine of success. Two conditions exist which are favorable, viz., 

 the slow extension of the disease, considering the opportunities afforded ; the evidently 

 mild and subacute or chronic type of the outbreak. 

 Yours truly, 



M. R. TRUMBOWER, 



Veterinary Inspector. 



Dr. D. E. Salmon, 



Chief of Bureau of Animal Industry. 



The following is the api)eal issued by the citizens' executive commit- 

 tee: 



To the people of Callaivay County: 



It is a well-established fact that contagious pleuro-i^neumonia is now prevailing to 

 an alarming extent in this county. The executive committee have already discovered 

 that nearly 1,000 head of cattle in this county alone have been exposed to the disease. 



It is known that at least sixty different persons, scattered over the county, have 

 had their cattle exposed, and how much further it may have extended it is impossible 

 to say until further examination is made. Every day's work of the committee in- 

 creases the number of exposures. Nor are the contaminated herds confined to Fulton 

 and immediate vicinity. The farther from Fulton the greater the number of exposed 

 head. 



The disease can and must bo stamped out at any cost. There is no time now to wait 

 to see what your neighbor will do. Business in our county is dead. Our cattle are 

 quarantined in the county. How long shall this stagnation of business remain 7 

 When will you be able to ship your cattle to market T There is but one answer : 

 Whenever you can say to the world pleuro-pneumonia no longer exists. What class 

 of men will this disease most affect ? There is but one answer : The men who own 

 the greatest number of cattle. Why stop to argue the question that our merchants, 

 our doctors, our lawyers, our smiths, and other mechanics are as much affected as the 

 cattlemen? You know the cattlemen are vitally interested, and to the cattlemen 

 ■we appeal to take steps to protect themselves. 



It is useless, it is suicidal, for the people of Callaway to remain idle and expect 

 other counties to do for them what they will not do for themselves. Whenever our 

 people will show to the world that they realize the importance of this calamity by 

 putting up money to suppress it, then will the other counties come to your help, and 

 not till then. Callaway County has over $1,000,000 worth of cattle, nearly every dol- 

 lar of which is liable to *be lost. If your dwelling-house, worth $1,000, was on fire 

 would vou not give $100 to save it ? How much have the people given to save the 

 $1,000,000 exposed ? Not $3,000 ; not one-third of 1 per cent. ! 



Will you see your house burn to the ground because your neighbor won't come and 

 help you put out the fire? That is what the cattlemen, the business men, all the 

 men of the county arc doing — waiting for their neighbors to save their property. 

 " But," you say, "why don't the governor call the legislature together and get the 

 State to help us ? " Is the State more interested in saving your property than you 

 are ? No one has a right to ask for help until he has tried to help himself. If Calla- 

 way County will subscribe $15,000 to stamp out pleuro-pneumonia, we have no doubt 

 but an equal amount will be furnished outside the county. One man in Kansas City 

 has already offered to give one-tenth of the whole cost, not exceeding §50,000. 



What will you do ? Go to work, every man of you. See your neighbor; get him 

 to subscribe something. 



In order to secure concert of action and to effect a more thorough organization and 

 to devise plans for raising money, we hereby call upon the tax-payers of Callaway 

 County, the cattlemen, the mulemen, the mechanics, the merchants, the doctors, the 

 lawyers, and every other class or iirofession to meet at Fulton on Saturday, April 25, 

 1885. Come one, come all ! Come to do something! If yon will come in the right 

 spirit, our word for it, in thirty daj^s every cow in the county that has been exposed 

 to pleuro-pneumonia will be in her grave. Ask vour neighbor to come. 



J. D. HENDERSON, County Cleric, 

 , N. D. THURMOND, Eepresentaiive, 



JOHN A. MOORE, Treasurer, 



Finance Committee for Callaicay County. 

 C. A. BAILEY, 

 JOHN L. ERWIN, 

 SISERA THRELKELD, 



Executive Committee, 



