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CORRESPONDENCE. 
to the immediate and urgent necessity for adequate national law 
to shield us from the ruinous experiences of Continental Europe 
Great Britain, South Africa and Australia. The emergent 
which now exists as a direct result of the deplorable negligent 
of Congress in failing to provide proper means for dealing witl 
disease, is one of the gravest that our industry has ever yet beei 
called upon to face, and the occasion calls for a convention that 
shall give thoughtful and earnest consideration to this burning 
question, and whose deliberations shall compel attention and coin 
mand universal respect. 
The food supply of the nation must be preserved from the 
taint of all infectious plagues, and the cattle-raising industry 
clothed with that protection which its importance'in our national 
economy demands. The orders of foreign governments requiring 
our cattle to be slaughtered upon landing at their docks, must be 
1 evoked by the submission of a bill of health so clean in every 
particular as to place our exports above and beyond the slightest 
breath of all suspicion. Our work therefore appeals for the en¬ 
couragement and generous support of every owner of cattle in the 
land, and the exigencies of the case are such as to call for the 
best thought, the wisest counsel, and the active assistance of our 
strongest men in every State and Territory. We trust that you 
will favoi us with delegates who appreciate the gravity of the 
situation, and who will aid by their presence in contributing 
something towards lifting the cloud of depression that now hangs 
attle industry of our common country. 
r amine is being arranged which will include addresses 
upon quesuons of vital importance to the cattle-growing industry 
by well-known cattle men and statesmen of America and Great 
Britain, upon which general discussion will be invited. All rail- 
i oads centering in Chicago will grant reduced rates of fare to 
visitors at the great American Fat Stock Show, which will he 
held November 8th to 19th, and as all delegates will be 
interested in that exhibition, advantage of this reduction may be 
taken. 
We enclose blank credentials for delegates, and beg to ask 
t lat you give the matter your earliest convenient attention, ad- 
