406 THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



J. J. Ferguson, Chicago, 111., chief of the animal husbandry work of Swift 

 & Co. 



J. W. Flavelle, Toronto, Canada, head of one of the large packing companies 

 of Canada. 



W. D. Hoard, Fort Atkinson, Wis., editor Hoard's Dairyman, and former gov- 

 ernor of Wisconsin. 



Dr. C. A. Hodgetts, Toronto, Canada, health officer of the Province of Ontario. 



Dr. J. N. Hurty, Indianapolis, Ind., secretary of the Indiana State Board of 

 Health. 



Dr. J. R. Mohler, Washington, D. C., Chief of the Pathological Division of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture. 



Dr. V. A. Moore, Ithaca, N. Y., professor of pathology of Cornell University. 



Dr. M. P. Ravenel, Madison, Wis., professor of bacteriology, University of 

 Wisconsin. 



Dr. M. H. Reynolds, St. Paul, Minn., professor of veterinary science, Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota. 



Dr. E. C. Schroeder, .Washington, D. C., superintendent of the Bethesda (Md.) 

 Experiment Station of*the Department of Agriculture. 



T. W. Tomlinson, Denver, Colo., secretary of the American National Live 

 Stock Association. 



Dr. F. Torrance, Winnipeg, Canada, professor of veterinary science, Univer- 

 sity of Manitoba. 



Dr. J. G. Rutherford, Ottawa, Canada, veterinary director general of Canada. 



First meeting, Buffalo, N. Y., December 13 and 14, 1909; second meeting, 

 Detroit, Mich., March 1 and 2, 1910; third meeting, Ottawa, Canada, May 19, 

 20, and 21, 1910 ; fourth meeting, Madison, Wis., June 27 and 28, 1910. 



By the American Veterinary Medical Association, in annual meeting assem- 

 bled, at Chicago, 111., in the month of September, in the year 1909, the follow- 

 ing gentlemen were constituted an international commission to study the methods 

 of the control of bovine tuberculosis and to submit a report to the association 

 on the occasion of its next annual meeting: J. G. Rutherford, Leonard Pearson, 

 V. A. Moore, Hon. W. D. Hoard, Frederick Torrance, E. C. Schroeder, M. H. 

 Reynolds, Hon. W. C. Edwards, C. A. Hodgetts, M. D., J. R. Mohler, Louis F. 

 Swift, and J. W. Flavelle. 



The commission met in Buffalo, N. Y., on the 15th day of December, 1909, 

 and elected as chairman Dr. J. G. Rutherford, of Ottawa, Canada, and as 

 secretary Dr. M. H. Reynolds, of St. Paul, Minn. 



Owing to the death of Dr. Leonard Pearson and the inability to act of Mr. 

 Louis F. Swift, the president appointed in the stead of these gentlemen, respec- 

 tively, Dr. M. P. Ravenel, of Madison, Wis., and Mr. T. W. Tomlinson, of 

 Denver, Colo. Later, at the request of the commission, the president appointed 

 Mr. J. J. Ferguson, of Chicago, 111., as representative of the United States 

 packing industry, and Dr. J. N. Hurty, of Indianapolis, Ind., as representative 

 of the medical health officers of the United States. 



The President of the American Veterinary Medical Association: 



Owing to the great economic and sanitary significance of animal tuberculosis 

 to the live-stock industry of America and the many and varied factors which 

 must of necessity be accounted with in formulating successful measures for its 

 eradication, the American Veterinary Medical Association, at its meeting in 

 Chicago in September, 1909, appointed the international commission on the 

 control of bovine tuberculosis. The commission was instructed to study the 

 problem of tuberculosis among cattle and to report at the next meeting of the 

 association upon reasonable and economically practicable methods or systems 

 to be recommended to both officials and live-stock owners for eradicating this 

 great scourge of domesticated animals. 



It is recognized that tuberculosis is widely prevalent among cattle and other 

 animals, and that the frequency with which this great evil occurs is increasing 

 rather than declining. As tuberculosis is one of the strictly preventable infec- 

 tions, there is good ground for the belief that through the formulation and 

 enforcement of proper regulations the disease may eventually be entirely 

 suppressed. 



The commission has held four meetings, as follows : Buffalo, N. Y., December 

 13 and 14, 1909 ; Detroit, Mich., March 1 and 2, 1910 ; Ottawa, Canada, May 19, 

 20, and 21, 1910; Madison, Wis., June 27 and 28, 1910, all of which were well 

 attended, very few of the members having on any occasion been absent. The 

 commission begs to present as a result of its labors the following report, which, 



