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of some of these peculiar abortions. We made experiments, a 

 number of years ago, by feeding twelve cows six weeks on all 

 the corn smut around the country. We took the secretion from 

 the pen where an aborted cow had been and injected it into the 

 vagina, and failed to produce abortion. We have tried a variety 

 of methods to produce this derangement, but we failed when we 

 did anything along that line. At the present time we have 

 nothing that we can say will for a certainty prevent abortion. 

 You must feed the cows on good nutritious food, and don't keep 

 them too fat, and there is no harm whatever in giving carbolic 

 acid; that is, one dram at a dose twice a day and continuing i 1 

 for month, and then skipping two weeks and giving again, until 

 the period arrives for the animal to have her calf. 



By the President: — W r e are all interested in this, but the 

 doctor has to go on this train. If you pay your dollar and 

 become a member of the association, the doctor's address will be 

 published in that and you will receive it when the books are on!. 



By the President: — The Committee on Resolutions will now 

 report on change of name. 



Read by Mr. W. R. Kimsey. 



To the President and Members of the Illinois Dairymen's ,\ss<> 

 ciation. 



Gentlemen: — We, your Committee on Resolutions beg leave 

 to submit the following partial report, viz : 



That in order that our official name may correspond with 

 the generally used name of our Association, we would recommend 

 that Section 1 of our By-Laws be amended by prefixing the fol- 

 lowing sentence to the section as it now reads, viz : that " This 

 Association shall be known as the Illinois State Dairymen's Asso- 

 tiation," further: 



Resolved, That the Board of Directors elect be empowered 



