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country for information in regard to contagions diseases, and 
hoped every one would feel it his duty to report to the Bureau of 
Animals Industry at Washington, D. C., so we can institute 
measures for their suppression. The national law will be made 
better this winter, and if we all act in an unselfish manner can 
very easily suppress all such diseases. He would not take up any 
more time and would be pleased to shake every one by the hand 
before leaving. 
Dr. Whitehead then asked whether anything had been done 
in the way of inoculating for the prevention of contagious 
pleuro-pneuinonia in this country. 
Dr. Salmon said it had been tried, but was not needed in this 
country. A drawback to inoculation was that it produced a sore 
and the animals in switching their tails would scatter the poison 
and keep up the infection, unless disinfection was resorted to 
often. In Holland, in districts where inoculation is practised, 
the disease still exists; but where the animals are killed at once 
they have entirely wiped out the disease. It must be stamped 
out by killing and burying or burning, to be effectual. Hoped to 
have a law soon that would permit one to go into a herd and kill 
every animal, and compensate a man fairly for his cattle, and that 
is the only way it will ever be stamped out. It is in a narrow 
belt now, and if the proper measures are taken it can be extir. 
minated. Have made representations to Congress, but received 
in reply, that it was impossible for it to be in the West; but at 
the same time the disease was working its way westward, and the 
present outbreak in Illinois was a good illustration of the above. 
There is great difficulty in tracing it at the present time, as ani¬ 
mals have been scattered over considerable territory. Some have 
been sent to Kentucky from Illinois, and the disease has broken 
out among them; some have been sent to Missouri, but nothing 
has developed there. Hoped to soon have it in check. 
The four gentlemen who were to have been present at this 
meeting and go before the Board of Censors, did not appear. 
The Corresponding Secretary, Dr. Butler, was then called up¬ 
on to read communications, correspondence, etc. He read a com¬ 
munication from G. O. Harlan, of Fremont, censuring the Associ- 
