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exi)enses, a dollar for a bullock and ten or twenty cents for a 

 sheep. 



We have packed meats in Chicago and New York which have 

 been eaten in the hottest parts of this continent ; and we are 

 resolved on following up a success which is quite unprecedented 

 in the art of fresh meat preservation, and demonstrate that the 

 problem, which the Old World has sought for years, and the New 

 has so much interest in unravelling, is finally, definitely and 

 irrevocably settled. 



The past year has shown me that if I crossed the Atlantic to 

 accomplish a task which the ravages of the cattle plague in 

 Great Britain imposed on me, cattle disease and the wants of the 

 people even in America call for the adoption of some process for 

 the preservation and transportation of dead meat. It is often 

 difficult for a scientific man to convince and secure the co-oper- 

 ation of capitalists. I have been most fortunate in my associ- 

 ations on this continent ; but much more would be done at once, 

 especially in Texas, with its five million beeves, but for the 

 severe reverses of all who have hitherto listened to those who 

 have fancied they had discovered an infallible meat-cure. The 

 ravages in the Western and Eastern States by splenic fever, the 

 interests of the Gulf States, and the repeated demonstrations of 

 the truth of what I state, have paved and are paving the way 

 for an early and triumphant success. • 



To the farmers of this country, and indeed to the whole 

 human family, the advances in the art which I have had to es- 

 pouse are of tlie highest moment ; and it is needless that I 

 should detain you with statistics which have so shocked and tan- 

 talized those whose concern it was to study all conditions calcu- 

 lated to increase the prosperity of densely populated countries 

 and to feed the half starving millions of Western Europe. 



I do not wish you to suppose I have been divorced from the 

 science which led me step by step to this pass. The investiga- 

 tion of the diseases of animals, with a view to their prevention, 

 and to the increase and purification of the sources of human 

 food, still constitutes my first and best means of solace and ad- 

 vancement. Your country loses annually over one hundred 

 million dollars in gold by preventable diseases among animals ; 

 and the most insidious, most destructive and most widely dif- 

 fused of contagious plagues, the lung plague, stamped out of 



