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the West. He represented owners who had millions invested. 
In the West stamping out was the only treatment they would 
favor. Inoculation was only a palliative of the disease, and if 
this was to be followed in the East, or even in Brooklyn, no cattle 
from such places would ever be allowed to come West. The 
affected animals, and the whole herd in which they were found, 
should be at once destroyed, and the owners liberally treated 
with, so that there would be no occasion to be constantly watch¬ 
ing them. It would be to their own interest to report all cases 
themselves. He was sure the disease could be stamped out in 
eighteen months, at a cost of not more than three million dollars. 
To talk of any measures by which to rid the country of pleuro¬ 
pneumonia, other than the stamping out process, was in his opinion 
a farce. He had conversed with gentlemen who stood high in 
the veterinary profession. Professor Liautard and others had 
informed him personally, that they were in favor of the stamping 
out process. 
Mr. Williams, of Queens County, said that he was a believer 
in inoculation. He had his own stock inoculated with good re¬ 
sults. 
The Chairman reminded Mr. Williams that he was speaking 
about a local instance. They wanted to consider the matter from 
a national point of view. 
Mr. Williams was of the opinion, that what would apply lo¬ 
cally would also apply nationally. 
Dr. A. Bell was sure that the milk and meat of animals suf¬ 
fering with pleuro-pneumonia was not a proper and healthy food, 
and believed that it should be made a criminal offence for any 
one to sell either. 
Dr. L. McLean understood that they had met here as scien¬ 
tists, to discuss by what scientific means they could suppress 
pleuro-pneumonia. He certainly did not consider they were do¬ 
ing so, when gentlemen present advocated stamping out by 
slaughtering. He could not deny that that process would stamp 
out the disease: what would not slaughtering stamp out % He 
considered that we 'were past that age. It was inhuman, be¬ 
sides being a great waste of money. It would take twenty years 
