Commissioner of Agriculture 335 



the charles o. blake drove. infection of genesee, monroe 



and orleans counties 



The most extended dissemination of foot and month disease in 

 New York in 1908 was brought about by the sales of Charles O. 

 Blake of Clarkson, Monroe County. On October 20, Blake bought 

 from Dunning & Stevens in the East Buffalo stock yards 57 head 

 of young cattle known as feeders, and again, November 2, at the 

 same yards, from Rice, Swopes, Meeks and McCarthy, a lot of 

 similar young cattle and some dry cows, numbering 31 head in all. 

 Each of these purchases was shipped by rail to Bergen, Genesee 

 County, arriving there October 27 and November 3, respectively. 

 From Bergen this stock was driven by road northward through 

 northeastern Genesee, western Monroe and eastern Orleans 

 counties, returning toward Brockport. The townships involved 

 were Bergen, Genesee County; Sweden, Ogden, Gates, Greece, 

 Parma, Hamlin and Clarkson, Monroe County ; and Kendall, 

 Murray and Clarendon, Orleans County. 



The following herds were infected from the Blake drove: W. J. 

 McKenzie, Bergen ; J. H. Lutes, Brockport ; J. II. Lutes, second 

 herd, Brockport ; F. M. Green, Brockport ; W. M. Lewis, Clarkson ; 

 W. S. Lawton, Brockport; Luther Gordon, Brockport; Silas 

 Smith, Kent; N. N. Smith, Hilton; L. S. Wolcott, Hilton; 

 Nicholas Schoff, Hilton; T. E. Blossom, Hamlin; Charles Ketten- 

 burg, Hilton; G. B. Nellis, Holley; D. J. Love, Holley; Eayette 

 W. Van Zile, Holley. Total indemnities resulting from infection 

 by the Blake drove, $7,073.38. (For details, see page 347.) 



Other herds were infected by cattle of the Blake droves but 

 they had recovered before they were found by the inspectors and 

 were adjudged to have passed the stage when they would com- 

 municate the disease. Two of these, on the farms of Cotter and 

 Barrett, respectively, near Hilton, Monroe County, I personally 

 visited December 15, 1908, and made inoculations from the healed 

 sores, which came to nothing, fully sustaining the opinion that they 

 had already passed the danger stage. 



Other infected stock was disposed of in which the immediate 

 source of infection was more or less obscure, including the herds 

 of the following: Theodore B. Nellis, Ransomville ; William 



