464 KEPORT OP THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



The following reply to inquiries of Dr. Trumbower is of interest in 

 this connection: 



Department op Agricultuuk, 

 Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 Washington, D. C, April 25, 1885. 

 This Department has no authority to appoint sub-agents sucli as you refer to. I 

 asliod the raih'oad companies to refuse cattle offered lor shipment from the suspected 

 couuties unless accompanied by a certificate of health from you. This jdaa would re- 

 <|iiire uo additional force, and is the only one practical. When owners resist inspec- 

 tion we have no power to enforce it. Can oulj'' depend on State law for power to in- 

 spect and quarantine. Parties shipping affected cattle into another State are the only 

 ones subject to the penalties of our law. The Attorney-General decides that we can- 

 not pay for slaughtered animals. 



NORMAN J. COLMAN, 



Commissioner. 

 Dr. M. E. TRUMBO\rER, 



Fulton, Mo. 



As the movement of cattle from Missouri through Kansas City to the 

 Western States was almost completely suspended by local restrictions, 

 and as many requests were received for an inspector at Kansas City 

 who could grant certificates of health and to allow the trade in healthy 

 cattle to be resumed, Dr. Trumbower was stationed at Kansas City to 

 perform this. duty. Dr. C. B. Michener, who had been for some time at 

 Fulton assisting Dr. Trumbower, was left in charge at that point. 



The following document, issued by the secretary of the Missouri State 

 board of agriculture, is of interest in this connection : 



missouri's distress and danger. 



Office of Secretary, 

 Missouri State Board of Agriculture, 



Columbia, Mo., May 1, 1885. 

 We, the undersigned executive committee of the State board of agriculture, do 

 hereby authorize the secretary of the board, J. W. Sanborn, to organize ways and 

 means to raise money and dispose of it in such manner as will contribute to stamp 

 out the cattle disease now so prevalent in Callaway County, this State, and r^ort to 

 this committee from time to time. 



JOHN WALKER, 

 n. ESBAUGH. 

 J. W. SANBORN. 



Under the action thus taken the secretary received from his oxceUoncy, John S. Mar- 

 maduke, the following indorsement by telegram, namely : 



"Yours of yesterday received. I heartily indorse and commen,d the plan adopted 

 by the executive committee of the board of agriculture. The State treasurer is away 

 just now, but I will vouch for his acceptauce of the trust. Make your arrangements 

 carefully that uo error or confusion may embarrass the enterprise, and push it rapidly 

 and with vigor. Now let us quit talking about an extra session and give our atten- 

 tion to raising this money immediately, and as fast as it is received it will be used in 

 extirpating the disease. 



JOHN S. MARMADUKE." 



That this action of the board of agriculture, through its executive committee, may 

 not seem presumptuous, it may be stated that the board is the only official organiza- 

 tion, for the pronnotion of agriculture in the State. By ofiicial we mean holding com- 

 missions from the governor and founded in the laws of the State. That its character 

 may be known its membership is given : 



Ex-officio memlers. — John S. Marmaduke, governor of Missouri ; W. E. Coleman, 

 superintendent of public instruction ; S. S. Laws, LL. D., president of Uui^ersity of 

 Missouri ; J. W. Sanborn, dean of agricultural college. 



Commissioned memhers. — Hon. John Walker, Jefferson City, Cole County ; Hon. N. J. 

 Colmau, Saint Louis ; Hon. H. Esbaugh, Hanover, Jefferson County ; C. E. Leonard, 

 esq.. Bell Air, Cooper County ; J. A. Potts, esq., Mexico, Audrain County ; W. M. Hall, 

 esq., Walker's Station, Vernon County; M. Fairchild Dcud, esq., Kansas City; John 

 R. Rippey, Glenwood, Adair County. 



It properly falls within the duty of the above organization to act in this matter. 



