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J. W. CONNAWAY. 
Secretary Morris, of the New York State Veterinary 
Medical Society, visited the Review office during April, and 
was quite enthusiastic regarding the prospects of a great meet¬ 
ing at Ithaca next September. He is in communication with 
the Eocal Committee, and assures us that Chairman Williams is 
already laying the foundation for a grand clinical programme, 
demonstrating the most classical and practical operations of 
modern surgery. With important papers from members through¬ 
out the State, the meeting should be a valuable one, and it is 
earnestly hoped that the efforts being put forth will yield good 
results in an increased membership and augmented interest. 
Dr. Robert W. Ellis contributes to this number a very 
thorough and interesting report of an extensive disease of the 
kidney in a horse. It is an object lesson to veterinarians, show¬ 
ing how much value a systematic investigation of such rare 
conditions will yield, and what an addition to professional 
knowledge may be made by carefully recording such observa¬ 
tions through the medium of the journals. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
TEXAS FEVER. 
EXPERIMENTS MADE BY THE MISSOURI EXPERIMENT STATION 
AND THE MISSOURI STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, IN CO¬ 
OPERATION WITH THE TEXAS EXPERIMENT STATION, IN 
IMMUNIZING NORTHERN BREEDING CATTLE AGAINST TEXAS 
FEVER FOR THE SOUTHERN TRADE. 
By J. W. Connaway, Veterinarian Missouri Experiment Station, 
and M. Francis, Veterinarian Texas Experiment Station. 
GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE WORK. 
For many years Texas fever has been a serious obstacle to 
the growth of trade in blooded breeding cattle, between the 
Northern breeders and the Southern cattle raisers. The losses 
