The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-11-24
STATE VETERINARIANS.
The Meeting in ChicaEO-Tho object of til
Conference.

The Meeting In ChieaEo-Tho object OF INT
Conference.
During the past week nearly all Of thu
different States were represented by dele
gates to the meeting Of the State Veterin
arisns and representatives Of Sanitary
Boards. The object of the meeting wa
to adopt resolutions 10 be presented to the
National Stock Growers Association held
at Chicago. Suggestions on the manage.
ment Of the different contagious diseases
existing at present in the United States,
setting forth the great difficulty exper-
fenced at present in interstate commerce
OF cattle were presented, States quarantin.
ing against one another owing 10 the ex.
istenCe OF few cases Of pleuro-pneumonia
in different localities. Toshow how this is
carried on at present, contagious pleuro.
pneumonia exists in one herd OF cattle in
the State OF Kentucky. They have no
State Veterinarian, but have called in
the help Of DR.. Salmon Of the Bureau OF
Animal Industry. The locality has been
placed in quarantine, but the whole State
Is excluded from the markets OF all Sur
rounding States, and Kentucky cattle can
not,cross the border OF other States with.
out Hrst remaining 90 days at the port Of
entry to show that no disease exists. This
inconvenience has caused loss Of $l0,-
coo, 900 to that State this fall by having no
market for her breeding cattle. In West
Virginia at present we have the
same condition OF things. In JET.
ferson county there is said to
exist a few cases Of chronic pleuro-pneu-
monia. We cannot send our cattle west
OF the Ohio river, as at each State line
we would be stopped for ninety days.
BY these existing State laws and from the
fact that England will not receive United
States cattle alive except to slaughter on
the docks, the Western cattle growers
are looking for new route to
get. their cattle out Of the States,
and some of them have accomplished
it by taking their cattle to the
British Dominions, driving to Winnipeg
and then over the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road to the Atlantic ocean. A shortroute
is also proposed, by shipping direct from
the northwest via Hudson Bay, which is
open four months in the year. By this
means OF shipping cattle to Great Britain
the loss to the United States would be
Canada's gain. The only question is, will
the Canadian stock raisers allow the
Americans to compete with them in this
wayP
Dr.. Salmon stated before the National
Convention Of Stockmen that pleuro.
pneumonia has been carried from the
East to Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, kentucky,
Tennessee and West Virginia. He states
that II all the quarantine laws are carried
out it would take two and one.half years
to take a calf from New York to San Fran
cisco, with ten quarantine stations to pass
and ninety days at each station,
This shows the necessity for national
law to regulate the movement Of cattle.
The National Stock Growers Association
will send delegation TO Congress this
winter to try and hsye such laws passed
as will protect all, not only With regard to
the commercial part but also the sanitary
laws, to empower veterinarians employed
to carry into effect the stamping out OF
the disease from the country, which can
be done at o small cost.