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was the nicest marbled meat I have ever seen. It waf; seven-eighths grade, Short- 

 horn. My opinion is that to get first-class marbled beef yon have to feed your 

 cattle longer. You can not make good marbled beef short of one year's feeding. 

 You can make cheaper beef in the summer by letting them run on blue grass- 

 pasture. 



Walter Quick. I am much interested in the reading of this paper. In the last 

 Breeders' Gazette I see an article from Mr. Culbertson regarding the award given 

 at the late Fat Stock Show, lie went on to say that Clarence Kirklevington was 

 not what he was represented to be. At the Pacific Hotel they found the beef of 

 poor quality, and the greater portion of the carcass was returned to the butcher 

 who sold it to them. The reading of this article makes it of interest to know what 

 is best to feed on to make the animal mature properly. Mr. Thompson's essay ha^ 

 answered some questions brought out by Mr. Culbertson. In reference to the steer 

 spoken of being two years old and weighing 1,800 pounds, the heaviest two-year- 

 old ever exhibited at the Fat Stock Show was one that Mr. Pickeral raised, which 

 weighed 1,830 pounds, and the heaviest I ever read of at just two years old weighed 

 1,856 pounds. 



The following address was then read on the 



CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



BY DR. J. ELLIOTT, V. S. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen: The subject which I have been requested to read 

 a paper on to-day is Contagious Diseases in Cattle. As this is a class of diseases^ 

 for it embraces many which has been causing death and destruction to the bovine 

 species of domestic animals, at various times, and different parts of Europe, for 

 nearly two hundred years, and in America for nearly ninety, and to give you a 

 description of the many diseases which are contagious in the bovine race, it would 

 be taking up too much valuable time here to-day; and in order to be as brief as 

 possible, I have selected the ones most prevalent and disastrous in this country 

 and in Europe, and ones most interesting to the stockraiser at the present time, 

 namely : Texas or Splenic Fever, Epizootic, Aptha, or mouth, and foot disease, 

 and contagious Pleuro- Pneumonia. 



A disease called splenic apoplexy, having pathological resemblance to our 

 Texas fever broke out in England, as far back as 1693, but it was not until 1847, 

 that the pathology of the disease was looked into or investigated. It was found ta 

 or rather defined to be, extrarasation and congestion of the spleen, occurring sud- 

 denly in animals in a plethoric condition, and dependent on blood changes prin- 

 cipally amongst ruminants. 



It was in New South Wales the disease was first discovered, and at that time- 

 some of the viscera was sent to Liverpool for examination, but, by some mishap, 

 was eaten by some hogs belonging to the keeper of the hospital, causing their im- 



