- List of Figures and Tables*
- 1. An Enduring Struggle
- 2. Livestock Disease Environment and Industry Dynamics
- 3. The Battle to Create the Bureau of Animal Industry
- 4. The BAI in Action: Establishing the Area Eradication Model
- 5. Bad Blood: Deciphering Texas Fever and Confining Its Spread
- 6. Contagions and Crises: Foot-and-Mouth Disease
- 7. The Hog Cholera Puzzle: Controversy and Discovery
- 8. Trichinosis, Trade, and Food Safety
- 9. The Benevolence of the Butcher: The Creation of Federal Meat Inspection
- 10. Bovine Tuberculosis and the Milk Problem
- 11. The Eradication of Texas Fever: Conflict and Cooperation
- 12. An Impossible Undertaking: Eradicating Bovine Tuberculosis
- 13. Getting Off the Fix: Hog Cholera Eradication
- 14. The Mirror of the Past
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Figures and Tables
- Figures
- 2.1 Value of U.S. meat and animal fats and total domestic exports, 1870–1914
- 3.1 A House divided over the Bureau of Animal Industry
- 4.1 Tracing the spread of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, 1884
- 4.2 Mapping the “mess” in Chicago, 1886
- 4.3 Adoption of state livestock sanitary offices
- 5.1 Area quarantined for Texas fever, 1891
- 6.1 Area quarantined for foot-and-mouth disease, 1914–1916
- 6.2 Culling cattle near Merced, California, 1924
- 6.3 Disinfecting automobiles and people near Merced, California, 1924
- 7.1 Swine deaths due to hog cholera, 1884–1940
- 8.1 Trichinoscopy in Chicago, circa 1900
- 9.1 A small section of the Union Stock Yards and Packingtown, 1905
- 9.2 Images of bovine and human actinomycosis cases, circa 1890
- 9.3 Federal meat inspection: (A) cattle and (B) swine
- 9.4 Number of establishments and cities with federal meat inspection, fiscal year 1891–1915
- 10.1 Tuberculin test results in Bellevue, Washington, January 16–17, 1914
- 10.2 Extent of milk pasteurization by city size, 1902–1936
- 10.3 Justice prevails
- 10.4 The Elgin district: Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, and McHenry counties
- 11.1 Cattle dipping: “Canals to Progress”
- 11.2 Area quarantined for Texas fever, 1906–1937
- 11.3 Share of land area (covered in 1906) released from quarantine, Louisiana and United States, 1906–1943
- 11.4 Sheep and cattle scab quarantine areas
- 12.1 Tuberculin tests given annually, 1917–1953
- 12.2 Extent of bovine tuberculosis by county, 1922–1937
- 12.3 Extent of bovine tuberculosis infection among cattle, 1917–1942
- 12.4 Declaration of martial law in Iowa, 1931
- Tables
- 2.1 Selected advances in the germ theory of disease to 1900
- 2.2 European restrictions affecting U.S. trade in animals and meat products
- 3.1 Composition of Congress, 1879–1897
- 4.1 Progress of the Bureau of Animal Industry campaign against contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
- 9.1 Federal livestock and meat inspection laws and regulations
- Figures