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under consideration. Technical papers might appropriately be 
left out of committee reports on infectious diseases or presented 
as special reports. 
This report was overlooked until it was too late to carry out 
this idea, and so each member of the committee was asked to make 
his contribution directly to the association, covering conditions 
in his district. 
During the last year there has been no serious outbreaks of 
infectious disease in the Missouri Valley. Some new conditions 
have arisen, and the zealous devotees of veterinary sanitary 
science have not been idle. 
The appearance of dourine in Iowa will, I assume, be re¬ 
ported by Dr. Bemis. Reports from many sections of the country 
show an alarming increase of rabies. In England rabies was 
stamped out by compulsory muzzling of dogs. In this country 
there is a doubt, fostered by some misguided medical conferees, 
as to the reality of the disease, and this, combined with a maudlin 
sentiment for the dog, has made the enactment and enforcement 
of muzzling ordinances in most cases impossible. 
The success of the Pasteur treatment cannot be reasonably 
questioned. An antirabic vaccine for the preventive treatment of 
rabies has been on the market for nearly two years, and the price 
for a course of treatment is fifty dollars. There is a firm in Kan¬ 
sas City that makes an antirabic vaccine for animals at one-half 
this price. There may be other laboratories doing the same thing. 
Hog cholera continues to be the great scourge among hogs 
wherever the hog-raising business is carried on extensively. In 
the arid regions of the Middle West hog-raising is not a cardinal 
industry and the disease has not, with few exceptions, become a 
menace to the business. In spite of the fact that most of the State 
experiment stations, some private firms and biological houses 
have been manufacturing hog-cholera serum, yet not enough has 
been available to supply the demand. 
More vigorous steps are being taken, and altogether a vast 
sum of money has been spent to eradicate the southern cattle tick. 
What the consummation of this seemingly impossible undertak¬ 
ing would mean to the cattle industry of the South can scarcely 
be estimated. 
While it has been known in a general way that tuberculosis 
existed to an alarming extent among cattle, and increasing rap¬ 
idly in hogs, yet we have never until quite recently been in pos¬ 
session of statistics that gave us any sort of a basis for definite 
