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Dr. Holcomb said that in 1884 the State of Kansas lost $400,000 from Texas 
fever. After the present law to restrict the disease was passed in the spring of 
1885, not more than $20,000 has been lost any year. The arrangements of the 
Kansas City stock yards were such that none of the Southern cattle were allowed 
to go into pens used by domestic cattle. The stock yards had no jurisdiction 
over Missouri. They could not prevent any one from buying diseased cattle, 
knowing them to be diseased, and taking them into Missouri, Nebraska, or any¬ 
where else. No certificate, he said, was issued on any cattle which came from a 
section south of the thirty-seventh parallel unless everything was known about 
them. 
Dr. Hopkins—How did the outbreak in Kansas in 1885 occur ? 
Dr. Holcomb—From direct transportation from the South; not from the 
Kansas City stock yards. 
Mr. Hoppin, of Chicago, said that in the Chicago stock yards the Southern 
and domestic cattle were kept entirely separate. Where the St. Paul and North¬ 
western unloaded, called Section D, in the stock yards, no Texas cattle were al¬ 
lowed at all. Mr. Hoppin said that he was in the commission business, and by 
buying from the Northwestern section of the yards he had never sustained any 
loss. Only a quarter of the yard, he said, was entirely free to the Northern cat¬ 
tle. It was a matter of necessity, however, to buy all over the yard, and of 
course risks had to be taken. At the time Texas fever occurs is generally when 
not many stock cattle are sold. 
On November 3d the sanitarians, who were all by virtue of their office dele¬ 
gates to the Cattlemen’s Convention, enjoyed a ride around Kansas City in car¬ 
riages provided by the Consolidated Cattle Growers’ Association, and visited the 
Stock Yards, the Fat Stock Show, Armour’s Packing House, the Exposition, etc. 
and in the evening some attended various entertainments at the theatres, occupy¬ 
ing reserved seats, secured also by the courtesy of those gentlemen. 
Altogether the meeting was very enjoyable and profitable. The members 
present only regretted the absence of their Eastern brethren, whom they trust 
they shall meet next year. 
The officers for the ensuing year are : 
President—Dr. A. A. Holcombe, Kansas. 
First Vice-President—Dr. Jas. Hopkins (re-elected), Wyoming. 
Second Vice-President—Dr. J. C. Alloway, Dakota. 
Secretary—Dr. Paul Paquin (re-elected), Missouri. 
Assistant Secretary—Dr. Hollaway, Montana. 
Adjourned sine die. 
Note. —It is evident that this Association of only a few years of age is be¬ 
coming recognized as useful and influential by those interested in live stock. It 
has been the means of improvements in sanitary regulations, and has done its 
share towards bringing about (in the West, at least) more beneficial sanitary laws. 
In the future we should endeavor to give more time to papers on contagious dis¬ 
eases. It is unfortunate that at this meeting the necessarily long and animated 
discussions on contagious pleuro-pneumonia crowded out a very valuable paper 
on “ Maladie du Coit,” written by Dr. Williams, who attended to the outbreak 
of that disease in De Witt County, Ill. P. P, 
