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poor health. No other case of the kind has been known to have been on the farm, 
excepting one some three or four years ago. The other stock is said to be in 
good health, but I did not inspect them as they were out at pasture. At the 
other farm a bull is reported as not thriving, they being unable to fatten him. 
This case, with the other stock, I think should be looked to. It might be well to 
state that the pigs received little or no milk from the cows on the farm, there 
being several calves which are said to have taken it all. Some twenty this 
spring calves were in the yard, being from Herford bulls owned on the premises, 
the bulls being apparently healthy and from two to three years old. 
The five sows before mentioned were allowed to eat the steer with the hogs, 
and as none of the hogs were free from disease, it is more than probable that the 
sow3 are affected with the same. Some sixteen of the suckling pigs have al¬ 
ready been sent to the adjoining farm, all of which should be made note of on 
account of the milk received from the mothers, if they are also found to be suf¬ 
fering from tuberculi. 
Wisconsin, Dr. Atkinson reported as follows: 
As State Secretary from Wisconsin, I do not know as I fully appreciate what 
you desire. I do not know that I am competent to make an exhaustive report at 
this time. In this connection, however, there may be a matter of interest to 
some. My predecessor was Dr. Rowland, of Monroe; he is probably dead by 
this time. I mention this as a matter of information to the members of the As¬ 
sociation. 
So far as our State is concerned, as I said in my letter, I think the veterinary 
profession is gradually assuming the place it is entitled to hold. During the last 
year as State Veterinarian, I disposed of sixty cases. We have no case of pleuro¬ 
pneumonia. We have had occasional outbreaks of hog cholera. Our loss from 
that source is not great, perhaps owing to the local quarantine and the power to 
enforce it conferred on our Board of Health. 
The outbreak of hydrophobia that is mentioned in Dr. Hewitt’s report, 
was on the Mississippi river near our State border. A similar outbreak occurred 
on our side of the river at about the same time and some six or eight animals 
were destroyed, although I do not think the dignosis was verified by any one 
competent to make it. 
We had an outbreak of trichinosis and one death from it in the City of Osh¬ 
kosh. Trichinosis and tuberculosis prevail to some extent, though not so much 
in our State as in some others. I am sorry I cannot make a more complete re¬ 
port and I make this from memory in order that the State may not be allowed to 
pass. 
Secretary Hoskins: Mr. President and Gentlemen: I have 
applications from J. F. Kyan, W. H. McKinney and J. J. Don¬ 
nelly for membership, all of whom are properly vouched for. 
I also have a communication from Dr. Cooper Curtice, of 
Washington, D.C., which I will read, proposing for honorary 
membership the name of Dr. Theobald Smith, of AVashington, 
D.C., B.A., M.D., graduate of Cornell University (lS84to 1S90) 
