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sound and just method of dealing with the disease must be directed 
and sustained by the National Government.” 
When he had finished reading his paper the meeting ad¬ 
journed until 5 o’clock. 
AFTERNOON SESSION. 
Upon reassembling, a committee on resolutions was appointed, 
after which Dr. Salmon, one of the veterinarians of the Agricul¬ 
tural Department, read a paper on “ The Prevention of Con¬ 
tagious Diseases of Animals in America.” He said, no case of 
pleuro-pneumonia had been found west of the Allegheny Moun¬ 
tains, and that with the exception of a few cases in Connecticut, 
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, none could be found except in the 
neighborhood of New York, Brooklyn, Newark, Baltimore and 
Washington. He did not think it would be a great task to free 
the country from this disease. 
The present Secretary of the Treasury Cattle Commission 
made the surprising assertion for him, that there had been much 
idle talk about pleuro-pneumonia, that no cases of foot or mouth 
disease had ever existed among American cattle, and that the 
shipping of eastern calves west was a great source of danger, 
but the business was not profitable aud was dying out. 
Mr. Bartlett answered, that he had handled 200,000 of those 
calves during the last four years, and had found no traces of con¬ 
tagious disease among them, and Prof. Law corrected the state¬ 
ment in reference to foot and mouth disease by saying, that while 
it had never originated among our cattle, some cases had been 
found among imported animals. 
Dr. J. D. Hopkins, veterinarian for Wyoming, read a paper 
on “ Pleuro-pneumonia,” and urged that if Congress could not 
devise some plan by which the disease could be entirely stamped 
out, that means should at once be adopted to prevent its spread¬ 
ing beyond its present limits. He claimed that safety was to be 
secured only by National legislation that would place the matter 
in competent hands, and urged the importance of each State 
having a veterinary department. 
A recess was then taken till 9 o’clock, p. m. 
