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Interstate Association of Live Stock Sanitary Boards, which 

 meets annually in September, in which any State is entitled 

 to membership from the body analogous to the live stock 

 sanitary board, yet the E"ew England and eastern States 

 have never been generally represented at its meetings, there- 

 fore it was decided at the conference in Kew York to form 

 an association, with a membershii:) composed of representa- 

 tives from the New England States, New York, New Jersey 

 and Pennsylvania, to discuss annually matters specially re- 

 lating to the protection of the health of the live stock in 

 these States. 



It was decided to christen this body the Eastern Live Stock 

 Sanitary Association. A constitution and by-laws were 

 adopted and officers elected as follows : - — 



President, Dr. Leonard Pearson, Pennsylvania. 

 Vice-President, Hon. H. 0. Hadley, New Hampshire. 

 Executive Committee : Hon. John M. Deering, Maine ; Hon. 

 Franklin Dye, New Jersey; Dr. Wm. Henry Kelly, New York. 

 Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. Austin Peters, Massachusetts. 



It was also decided to meet annually to discuss measures of 

 mutual benefit to the live stock sanitary interests of the 

 States entitled to membership. The Chief of the United 

 States Bureau of Animal Industry was also elected a member. 



A little later in the spring the Governor appointed Dr. 

 Howard P. Rogers, an agent of the Cattle Bureau and an 

 expert on glanders, to attend a conference in Pennsylvania, 

 with the Chief of the United States Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry, the State veterinarian of Pennsylvania and repre- 

 sentatives from the Pennsylvania Live Stock Sanitary Board 

 and the New York State Department of Agriculture, for the 

 purpose of investigating suppurative or contagious lymphan- 

 gitis in horses, a disease which may be mistaken for farcy 

 by any one not conversant with it. Dr. Rogers saw a number 

 of cases of this disease and brought home specimens from 

 horses killed because of it for further study at the laboratory 

 at the Harvard Medical School. It is undoubtedly of great 

 value to the Commonwealth to have an agent of the Cattle 

 Bureau made familiar with a disease which mialit be mis- 



