The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-30
PROTECTION OF CATTLE FROM DISEASE.

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Report Of the Committee to Tnrestf0ate Con-
ta0iom Of Tesas Fsper.
The annual meeting of the National
Cattle Growers association began in
Chicago on the Goth. After electing w.
A. Towers, of Kansas City, chairman,
the association was welcomed to Chicago
by Mayor Roche. In o paper read by
Hines, of Michigan, q member of the
committee appointed to investigate con-
tagion of Texas fever, it was eco
mended that the association instruct its
Legislative committee to ask congress to
enact that all railroads or other trans
p~ortation companies shall transport
southern cattle from one state to an
other between the first day of March
and the first day of December of each
year only i'll cars or compartments that
are labeled and branded ia plain and
distinct characters, "For transportation
of cattle south of the ~thirty-sixth paral-
lei Of north latitude only, and that they
shall be yarded and fed only in yards
distinct and apart from northern cattle,
and that are branded and lettered SINH
lar to the cars and compartments, and
that no native or northern cattle be adj
mitted in these cars, compartments or
pens between the first day of March and
the first day of December of each year,
unless the same shall have been thor
oughly disinfected and the warning pla-
cards removed. The committee also
recommended the enactment of uniform
legislation by the various states regulat-
ing the transportation of cattle and their
care in stock yards. After several other
papers had been read a recess was taken.
The afternoon session was opened by
DR.. E. d. Salmon, superintendent of
the bureau of animal industry, who, in
the course of his report. said that 274.-
255 head of cattle had been inspected in
| the search of pleuro-pneumonia during
the year. Of this number 2,340 were
found infected and slaughtered; also
4, IT'S head of cattle which had been ex-
posed to the disease were killed. In a
majority of the states the disease has
been entirely eradicated. The commit
tee on resolutions reported favorably on
| the resolution Of the committee on leg
islation. Before further reports were
made a resolution was adopted a:vo-
| eating the enactment of q national in
spection law, providing that it shall be
unlawful to transport from one state to
another state or foreign country, any
beef, pork, mutton or veal, to be sold
for human food, which has not been in
spected alive at the Strengthening place
by q United States inspector, and found
healthy, and that 9 special bureau of
inspection should be created in the de-
partment of agriculture.
The committee on resolutions made a
favorable report on other matters pre-
sented Mt the morning session and 1t
was adopted. A resolution was also
adopted approving the exhibition of
American animal products at the Paris
exposition in 1889, and urging all stock
men to give all aid to the authorities in
connection Herewith. It was also re-
solved to continue during the next year
a system of tests at Chicago, or some
other point relating to the contagious
ness of Texas or splenic fever. The fol
lowing resolution relating to the bruis'
ing of cattle in shipment was unani'
mously adopted:
Resolved, That we, rs cattle growers
and shippers, realizing the great suffer.
ing of cattle and the loss to shippers by
bruised and injured meats, caused by
shocks in cars while in transit, believe
it %opportune and even a duty to say to
the great railway and transportation
companies, that we are inclined to give
our patronage to such companies as
equip their freight cars with such brakes
and couplers as will prevent suffering to
stock and loss to owners.
Adjourned.