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heal, and necrotic advancing margins, in many cases marked by a 

 grayish-white border or rim of dead tissue, indicated the action 

 rather of cryptogams or bacteria from the fodder, than of the germs 

 of the aphthous plague we were in quest of. The inoculated calf 

 was sound and well, and a brood sow which had throughout lived 

 in the barn and yard with the diseased cattle on the Ainsley place, 

 rooting and wallowing in the manure, came out unscathed, thus 

 furnishino; a second crucial test in addition to that of the inocu- 

 lated calf. 



The cloud that had settled on Yates County was lifted and on 

 December 3, 1908, the quarantine of the county (see page 355) 

 was raised by revocation order of the commissioner. 



FURTHER HISTORY OF COPPY AND GROP.E DROVE AND ITS VICTIMS 



The Coppy and Grobe drove of 19 animals, drawn, as the 

 records show, in part from the infected state of Michigan, left the 

 Buffalo yards by road October 27, stayed over night in the barn 

 of Neal Bodine at Clarence, reached Akron October 28, and re- 

 mained there and in that vicinity till November 5. Then, in com- 

 pany with 4 more just arrived by road from Buffalo, the 7 

 remaining animals of the first drove were driven north through 

 Wolcottsville to Middleport in Niagara County, where they were 

 left overnight in the stock yards at the railroad station. November 

 6 they were started westward through Gasport and Orangeport to 

 Lockport, where they turned south and brought up the same night 

 at Swormsville in Erie County. As the herd had now dwindled 

 to 2 and as no immediate sale was in prospect, these were left 

 with John ITanel at Swormsville. 



The following herds were infected bv the Grobe drove : I. M. 

 Beeman, Akron ; C. M. Beeman, Akron ; A. W. Laatsch, Wol- 

 cottsville; August W. ITerbst, Akron; Herbert Cummings, Akron; 

 A. B. Cummings, Akron; H. Martin, Akron; Mrs. I. R. Schuler, 

 Akron; M. B. Snell, Akron; C. D. Churchill & Son, Akron; Mrs. 

 W. IT. Newman, Akron; John L. Grobe, Swormsville; Frank S. 

 & Charles A. Owen, Akron ; resulting in condemnation and slaugh- 

 ter of 364 animals, the appraisal value of which was $4569. (For 

 details, see page 346.) 



