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which it is conveyed from one place to another,—a long step 
will have been taken towards its control ; and right here I wish 
to state that the Missouri Valley Veterinary Association has 
been instrumental in making one very important change in the 
laws of Kansas with respect to the control of hog cholera. No 
doubt some, if not all of you, will remember at the meeting of 
this Association at Topeka two years ago, a resolution was 
adopted and presented to the Live Stock Sanitary Commission 
and the Legislature, asking them to pass a law prohibiting en¬ 
tirely the shipment of hogs from any public stock yards into the 
State of Kansas. As a result of that resolution, the Legislature 
repealed section 22, special session laws of 1884, which did not 
include hog cholera under the head of contagious diseases, and 
by the repeal of said section the control of hog cholera 
was brought under the jurisdiction of the Live Stock Sanitary 
Commission, and that board a short time ago asked me to draft a 
rule to be included in their rules and regulations for 1896^ 
which declared a quarantine against the shipment of hogs from 
any public stock yards into the State of Kansas. This rule was 
adopted by the board some time in May, and is in force at 
the present time. That one resolution of the Association will 
do the State of Kansas more good, and save the State more 
money than any one act ever passed by the Legislature of 
the State of Kansas. And, gentlemen, I feel that had we not 
passed that resolution and presented the matter in its true light 
at that time that nothing would have been done by the Legisla¬ 
ture. Therefore, we as an Association are entitled to no small 
amount of credit for this step taken in the right direction toward 
the control of hog cholera. This also shows us how immensely 
important our influence can be for the public good, and should 
stimulate us to study these live sanitary issues, and devise means 
to bring them before the public ; this I consider a part of 
our duty as veterinarians. For who are so well qualified to do 
this as we? Now that this disease is placed under the control 
of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission, with good live men to 
compose that board, men that are up to date in all sanitary 
