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been reported to the Department by Prof. I. P. Roberts, of Cor- 

 nell University. Dr. Henderson prescribed for them, and gave 

 directions as to their care. On October eighth I examined the 

 herd of cows on the farm of Irwin Comfort, near Montgomery, 

 Orange county, that had been reported as being affected with 

 some contagious disease. I found them all in apparent good 

 health and no contagious disease among them. October eleventh 

 I examined the cows on the farm of D. M. Ferry, called the Man- 

 sion, six miles north of Unadilla, Otsego counl^, and found them 

 all well but one heifer, whose symptoms would seem to indicate 

 tuberculosis. The manager of the place informed me that two 

 weeks previous one cow died from tubercalosis. On October 

 fourteenth I went to Greene to examine tlie cattle of S. H. Hol- 

 comb, and found that five had died from anthrax, but the balance 

 of (he herd were well at the time of my visit. On October twenty- 

 ninth I went to Cuba, and went; over the ground where anthrax 

 had been so prevalent at the time I was there on September ninth, 

 and found that the disease had entirely disappeared in that 

 siection. 



November seoond I went > to West Bainbridge, Chenango 

 countv, and examined the herd of cattle on the farm of Norman 

 T. Loomis. I found one cow^ suffering from anthrax and six had 

 died from the disease. On November nineteenth I was called to 

 Springwater, Livingston county, and examined a cow owned by 

 John Starks. I found her suffering from emphysema of the skin, 

 caused by either septic condition of the blood or an obstruction 

 in the throat. The cow died abaut fifteen minutes after my 

 arrival. November twenty-sixth I went to Pittsford, Monroe 

 county, where an outbreak of hog cholera had been reported. I 

 learned that it had broken out in August, and spread for a 

 distance of about two miles square. At the time of my visit 

 it had nearly died out. I found it only on two farms. The loss, 

 in that vicinity, from the disease, was about fifty hogs. 



On December tenth I went to Mahopac, Putnam county, at the 

 request of Mr. Bennett, the agent and expert for this Department 

 at that place; bethought that the herd of milch cows on the farm 

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