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affected with the lung worm. Dr. Holcomb makes this a special study, and is 

 going night and day on that kind of business. I can assure you, from personal ex- 

 perience, that he is doing much good there. When the Texas fever broke out they 

 were quarantined and the Governor written to. He checked it at every point and 

 kept it from spreading. A man thoroughly skilled in his profession should be kept 

 to attend to the wants of the farmers. There are not enough veterinary surgeons 

 in the country. Our experience in Kansas, I think, from what I know of this 

 work, has been profitable throughout the State. 



The Chair announced as the Committee on Preparation of Programme for the 

 Next Annual Meeting the following : Messrs. Aikman, Cooper and Quick. 



Mr. Nelson offered the following resolutions, which were adopted after some 

 discussion : 



Resolved, That this convention doe-- hereby endoi-se the course of all live stock 

 and agricultural journals that have taken an active part in expressing, through 

 their columns, the existence of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases 

 among the cattle of the country, and their able advocacy of the bill passed at the 

 last session of Congress, known as the Bureau of Animal Industry, which has 

 already proved to be efficient as a step towards the stamping out of said pleuro- 

 pneumonia. 



The two others were also adopted without discussion. They read as follows: 



Resolved, That the Shorthorn Breeders of Indiana, in convention assembled, are 

 unalterably opposed to the action of the St. Louis convention of cattlemen in their 

 advocacy of a so-called national cattle trail, beginning somewhere in Texas and 

 running to the British possessions, said trail to be six miles in width its entire 

 length, and we hereby instruct our representatives in Congress to use all honorable 

 means to defeat the enactment of such a measure. 



Resolved, That this convention indorses the action of the representatives of the 

 National Cattle Growers' Convention, Chicago, in withdrawing from the Cattle- 

 men's Convention held at St. Louis last fall, as that convention was sectional in its 

 character, and had for its object the building up of an entirely Western and South- 

 western interest, ignoring the existence of organizations of a central and Eastern 

 character, and having for their object the good of cattle breeders of the nation at 

 large. 



The chair announced the receipt of a notice from the Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture of an agricultural convention at New Orleans, February 10th, and convey- 

 ing a cordial invitation from the National Cotton Plantei-s' Association to all agri- 

 cultural associations to send delegates, with an earnest recommendation from the 

 Commissioner that it be accepted. On motion, the invitation was accepted, and the 

 Hon. Eobert Mitchell was appointed the official delegate of the association. 



The remaining gentlemen who were to have presented papers to the meeting 

 not having reported, and there being no special business before the meeting, the 

 chairman, Mr. Eobert Mitchell, made a warm and earnest address on the 

 apathy that seemed to have settled down upon the Shorthorn breeders of Indiana. 

 He said : In regard to the indifferent manner in which the Shorthorn breeders 

 treat one another, I would like to say a word. I have been a visitor in Kentucky, 

 and I would like to see the fraternal feeling exist among us that prevails there. 



