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ley then requested me to make an examination of the herd, which 

 I did, and found them entirely recovered. The quarantine was 

 raised and the owner allowed to dispose of the milk. 



In July, acting under orders from Mr. Quigley, I examined a cow 

 owned by Mr. M. C. Bean, of the town of McGrawville, Cortland 

 county; this cow had been quarantined by the town board of health 

 as suffering from a contagious disease known as actinomycosis or 

 lump3'^ jaw. After a careful examination I could find no evidence 

 of that disease, but did find an enlarged absorbent gland in the 

 laryngeal region, which might indicate a tuberculosis origin. I 

 afterward tested the animal with tuberculin, and found positive 

 evidence of tuberculosis, and then acting under orders from the 

 tuberculosis committee, I killed her and found her badly affected 

 with that disease. 



On August twenty-fourth, in company with Mr. Quigley, 

 I examined a herd of cattle owned by Mr. C. A. Wheeler, 

 of the town of Deposit, Broome county, and found them 

 suffering from anthrax fever. Mr. Wheeler had lost five cows 

 with the disease, and, at the time of my visit, 1 found several 

 affected. This herd was examined by a veterinarian some days 

 previous to my visit, who gave it as his opinion that the cattle 

 were suffering from the effects of eating sumach and wild cherry, 

 while Mr. Quigley had pronounced her trouble anthrax. I se- 

 cured some of the blood from one of the animals and examined 

 it with the microscope, and found the bacillus anthracis in great 

 numbers, which amply corroborated my diagnosis. On August 

 twenty-seventh, accompanied by Mr. Quigley, I examined a herd 

 of cattle owned by Mr. Bert Olney, of Rome, Oneida county, and 

 found them suffering from septic poisoning, which showed its 

 effects principally on the contents of the thoracic cavity. This 

 herd consisted of sixty head, and were bought in the town of 

 Floyd, in the northeren part of Oneida county, and brought to 

 Rome on or about January 1, 1895. They seemed in good health 

 up to July twenty-ninth. On that date one cow died suddenly, 

 and a post-mortem examination by a veterinary surgeon revealed 

 extensive pulmonary lessions, the nature of which was not under- 



