St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-14
NATIONAL CATTLE GROWERS.
The Convention at Chicago Yesterday
The NOrthwesterners Present


vention at the Sherman house to-day to dis
cuss contagious diseases of cattle in this
country and to devise means to prevent their
spread Another important object of the
meeting was to organize a national cattle
growers association.
Among those present from the northwest
were: r G. Judson, A II. Bulls and j.
MeHaush, Minnesota; K. c. Lake, ]. NJ.
Smith and Dow Clark, Dakota; c. Kohers,
/ +. NJ. and J. II. Holt, H. Suiien aud VIM.
Ball, Montana; j. B. Grinnell, r. c. Clark
son and Judge Nourse, Iowa; A. T. Babbitt,
David Hunter, R. A Torrey and a host OF
others from Wyoming.
After the appointment Of various com
mittees, the convention adjourned until
afternoon, when j. B. GrinneIl, of Iowa,
presented the report of the committee ap-
pointed at the previous con-
Tention to go to Washington and secure
needed legislation for the suppression of
contagious diseases, particularly pleuro-
pneumonia The committee succeeded in
getting bin passed which, while 1t was far
from satisfactory, was a great deal better
than no law at all. 1t provided that the gov
eminent should remunerate states for one
half of their losses in the destruction OF dis
eased cattle. II made no admission that the
Texas fever was not a contagious disease.
IL gave the president of the United States au-
thority TO quarantine a given section or
state for the general welfare, and provided
for an appropriation OF $500, OOO The re-
port then continues:
There is now a national bureau of cattle
/ industry. 1t will bring before congress for
4 ~ frgt In, -
our capacity in cattle and beef raising meth
ods, cost of shipment losses by neglect,
fayorite.breed and a discussion of dressed
beef shipments; also the dangers aud extent
OF losses byTexas tever and dpleuro-pneumonia
and many other eognate matters under an
/ appropriation of $50. 900. What OF the fu-
turei This convention will have a patent
voice in deciding. We have made no con-
cessiOns, adopted no expedients nor formed
any alliances but in the line of advance.
when law and not the Winchester
rife shall determine the march
Of the shipments Of cattle into or across
the states or territories. We have formed
/ profound public sentiment that 1t is the
duty OF the government to dispel the sus-
pieion of disease, that we may find a good
foreign market for our meat products, that
congress should give power to the
/ president or board Of health
J TO declare infected localities or
states In quarantine, ana in the midst OF in
creasing perils the time Is auspicious for the
formulation and enactment of efficient laws
for our protection"
The report was adopted. Dr. ]. W. Gads-
den, Of Philadelphia, veterinary surgeon
Of national repute, read paper on danger
to healthy cattle from recovered cases of
pleuro-pneumonia or chronic lung plague
the main points of which were as follows:
Contagious pleuro-pneumonia in cattle is
an incurable disease. Although an animal
that has been affected with it may to all out
ward appearances be healthy, yet the diseased
lung never resumes its normal condition,
| and II may become center of contagiOn TO
others. / arrive at this conclusion after
careful observation OF the disease,
extending over period Of twenty-five years,
and from the results of numerous post NOR
TEN examinations which / have made and
| witnessed.
Therefore. the only means OF eradicating
the disease from any country effectually is
to slaughter every animal that has at any
time been affected with it, no matter what its
present condition. These chronic, or So
called recovered cases of pleuro-pneumOnia
in cattle, present a striking similarity in
their liability to communicate disease to
chronic gianders in horses. These cases are
by far the most dangerous, as they offer no
| symptoms which might lead the expert 10
suspect the existence of the malady, and
yet they readily infect healthy horses,
and there can be no doubt that it is such
cases which maintain and propagate the
disease in stables, in those instances in
which outbreaks occur after sometimes long
periods and without any assignable cause.
This is equally true in pleu-ropneumonia
where outbreaks that have occurred
without any known contact with
animals having the disease in an acute form
have been directly traced to the presence in
the herd of one or more of these so called re-
covered animals, which, while apparently
healthy themselves, have communicated the
disease TO others, and the fact has only been
discovered by post mOrtem examination.
The paper then recites the opinions of noted
veterinarians and advises every man VINO
is owner or breeder of cattle, to search care
fully for the slightest trace Of disease in his
herd, and, after inspection by competent
authority, II it was pronounced contagious
pleurO-pneumonia, to at once slaughter every
diseased animal and thoroughly isolate
every one that has been in
contact with them, and the
instant that one Of these so isolated shows
symptoms OF the disease to have 1t too de-
stroyed. In this way and in no other can
this dread plague be stamped out of the
country. Any less heroic measure is but
waste of time and money, for, while the
chronic or recovered cases remain you have
centers Of contagion, like a smoulderng fire,
in your very midst liable to break out at any
moment and work irretrieyable ruin to the
stock raising interests Oft the country.
Other papers were read by J. z. Hopkins,
Of Cheyenne, on sanitary science; L. G.
Coffin, of Iowa, on carrying rates, and Gran
vile Stuart, of Montana, OF an alleged un-
known disease that had broken out some
time ago in that territory. Several gentle
men spoke ON this matter, and it was de-
eided that the disease was ''pink eyes,