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Hesher, Ransomville; Ferdinand Zieh], Martinsville; Fred 

 Schultz, North Tonawanda ; E. F. Schrader, Gasport ; resulting in 

 total indemnities of $1,075. (For details, see page 347.) 



CONDITIONS WHICH TENDED TO RESTRICT THE AREA OF INFECTION 



IN NEW YORK 



Perhaps the most notable thing about the invasion of 1908 

 is the remarkably restricted area over which it spread in this state. 

 The great invasion in the early winter of 1870 started from its 

 point of inception in the infected imported cattle at Montreal, 

 spread over a great part of Ontario, crossed into New York, among 

 other places at Ogdensburg, Clayton and Cape Vincent, and spread 

 widely in central New York, the Hudson River counties, Con- 

 necticut, central and eastern Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. 

 It made rapid progress, as it had burned itself out and completely 

 disappeared by the spring of 1871. Again, in the great Mas- 

 sachusetts invasion of 1902 the infection from July or August 

 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, lasted until June, 1903, extending 

 into 4 states and 14 counties. The New York invasion of 

 1908 started at Buffalo, the very source of cattle traffic for the 

 state and from which the active channels of the live stock industry 

 diverge to all parts of this state and to the neighboring states east 

 and south, so that very few places would promise as speedy and 

 widespread a diffusion. And yet the infection in the Empire 

 State did not at any time extend beyond the limits of 5 counties, 

 Erie, Niagara, Orleans, Genesee and Monroe, and in one month 

 from the date when the first preventive measures were put in 

 operation the last active infection had been stamped out. On 

 November 11 the first restrictions were placed on the East Buffalo 

 stock yards, the one point in the state to which the disease could 

 be reasonably traced, and by December 12 the last sick animal 

 in the state had been disposed of and most of the premises had 

 been disinfected. This extraordinary limitation of the disease was 

 not due alone to the skill of the sanitary officials and efficiency of 

 the veterinary sanitary police measures applied. From the first 

 infection of the Buffalo stock yards, October 23, to the earliest 

 order restricting movement from these yards, November 11, there 

 had been ample time for the disease to be carried to the utmost 



