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the disease. As long as the diseased cattle remained in fields and ranges, it 
could be stamped out in places, but on the plains it could not be controlled with¬ 
out immense cost. The quarantine should be considered in every phase. The 
Commissioners of Illinois had used every effort to stamp out the disease, but, on 
account of the responsibility of the West in the matter, the quarantine ought not 
to be removed. The object of the Association’s meeting was to exchange ideas 
and discuss the matters thoroughly, and to reap benefits thereby. 
Dr. Gerth here rose and seconded the motion of Dr. Holcomb to adopt the 
majority report against the adoption of the resolutions. 
The majority report was adopted. 
Notwithstanding the adoption of this report, it was evident that the discus¬ 
sion on that resolution produced the desired effect, as Dr. Hopkins remarked, 
and that the Bureau of Animal Industry and the State of Illinois will favor quar¬ 
antine longer than they said at first. 
Dr. Hopkins, on opening the discussion on Texas fever, said that careless 
handling of Texas cattle by the Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City stock yards, 
had resulted in great mortality. The disease, he said, was native not only to 
Texas, but along the seaboard even to Virginia. He thought “ Southern fever ” 
was the best name for the disease. 
Dr. Holcomb claimed that the Kansas City stock yards had caused no serious 
outbreak. 
Dr. Hopkins said that he had not said the cattle had intermingled here, but 
that a lot of cattle which passed through the Kansas City stock yards had caused 
an outbreak of the disease in Nebraska. 
Dr. Holcomb went on to say that there wasn’t an animal which came into 
the Kansas City stock yards from the South that the Inspector didn’t see, and 
when these cattle were inspected and found dangerous they were put in the 
Kansas City stock yards quarantine pen. When these cattle were purchased the 
purchaser was aware that they were dangerous, and he might have imposed upon 
somebody else. 
Dr. Gerth, of Nebraska, said that upon investigation it was found that six or 
seven Southern cattle had been found in the herd of cattle which had been certi¬ 
fied to as domestic by the stock yards. 
This statement created quite a breeze, but was vehemently denied by Dr. 
Holcomb. He said that no certificates are issued on application that a herd 
consists of domestic cattle unless they were such. They might have been changed 
afterwards. The stock yards at this place, or any other, could not afford to issue 
a bill of health on any lot of cattle. 
Dr. Paquin said that during the past year 90 per cent, of Texas fever in the 
State had come from the East and West St. Louis stock yards or direct Southern 
transportation, and only 10 per cent, from Kansas City. This was a wonderful 
improvement over the two years preceding. During the year he had very few 
cases to attend to which came from Kansas City. He thought the Kansas City 
stock yards had done a great deal of good toward restricting the disease. The 
infectious Southern cattle, he said, were driven over the bridge through St. Louis 
and out on the grazing grounds where dairy cattle are kept. There were no suL 
ficient regulations to prevent this in the city of St. Louis, 
