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power of the American meat exporters to turn the momentarily 
disastrous pork panic of 1881 into an opportunity for making 
their meats more widely and favorably known than ever before. 
They are fighting a defensive battle, but they can win it.” 
Shipments West of Eastern Calves. —The recently-ap¬ 
pointed “Treasury Cattle Commission” have issued the following- 
circular, addressed especially to the Governors of the States and 
Territories west of the Alleghanies: 
Office of the United States 
Treasury Cattle Commission, 
Chicago, Aug. 23, 1881. 
Dear Sir —The “Treasury Cattle Commission” appointed by 
the Secretary of the Treasury, in pursuance of an act of the last 
Congress, deem it their duty to call your attention to the im¬ 
minence of the danger to which the herds in the States and Ter¬ 
ritories west of the Alleghanies are exposed from the traffic in 
dairy calves, which is becoming a very common one between 
these States—now happily exempt from the contagious pleuro¬ 
pneumonia of cattle—and the infected districts. That a very 
large proportion of our country has, up to this time, remained 
exempt from this dangerous malady, is owing chiefly to the fact 
that the current of our cattle traffic has heretofore been mainly from 
the West toward the seaboard; but the business of purchasing 
calves from the eastern dairy districts and scattering them through¬ 
out the Western States and Territories, which has, within a year 
or two past, assumed such mammoth proportions, has augmented 
the danger to which the uninfected districts are exposed tenfold ; 
and if it is permitted to go on unchecked, the danger of a general 
infection of the great cattle growing and grazing regions is im¬ 
minent. 
We, therefore, call upon you to use whatever influence you 
may legitimately bring to bear upon the people of your State to 
discountenance and discourage a traffic that is fraught with such 
danger to their material interests. The district known to be in¬ 
fected with the scourage embraces pretty much the whole of the 
country bordering on the coast, from New York city southward 
to Washington city, and extending to a greater or less distance 
