CORRESPFNDENCE. 
381 
[1 live stock and agricultural publications to appoint one delegate 
ich, to participate in a Convention of Cattle Growers to meet 
ith and under the auspices of the Consolidated Cattle-Growers’ 
Lssociation of the United States, at Chicago, Ill., Tuesday and 
Wednesday, the 16th and 17th of November next. 
In accordance with the above, you are earnestly requested to 
repare proper credentials and designate delegates to attend this 
invention, which will be held in the Gall Board hall of the 
1 hicago Board of Trade, beginning at 1 p. m. Tuesday, Nov. 
6th, and continuing throughout Wednesday, the 17th, or until 
ich time as the important business to come before the conven- 
on shall have been despatched. Representation in this con- 
ention, as you will understand from the above resolution, is not 
ased upon membership in either of the two existing national 
ssociations, as the meeting is designed to reflect every shade of 
pinion throughout the entire United States of America ; and as 
latters of the most serious possible import to the cattle-growing 
idustry of the nation are demanding prompt and most careful 
onsideration at this juncture, your earnest co-operation is sin- 
erely desired. 
The lapse of time makes it more and more apparent that until 
he cattle-growers of the entire Republic combine in one power¬ 
ed central organization, the most vital interests of the entire body 
/ill be neglected and their industry left on the one hand at the 
aercy of contagious plagues, or hampered and restricted on the 
>ther by an interminable system of local quarantines. If any 
loubt has heretofore existed as to the justice of the claims of 
attle-growers for protection at the hands of the Federal Govern- 
aent from the dangers of contagious disease, the late outbreak of 
)leuro-pneumonia near the very heart of the cattle trade, the 
:ity of Chicago, and the absence of any competent authority em- 
>owering either State or National officials to deal with the dis¬ 
ease even at the very threshold of the greatest cattle market of 
he world, the vexatious local quarantines immediately proclaimed, 
md the inestimable damage resulting to the entire cattle interest 
herefrom, must compel the undivided attention of the cattle- 
growers of the United States, as a purely business proposition. 
