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cattle to " summer " in Keiffer's pasture. The environments 

 of this pasture had no unusual features. The stock had good 

 feed and good water. I think there was about forty head of 

 cattle quartered there. During the late days of August and the 

 month of September a disease appeared among them from 

 which about 25 per cent, of them died. The first symptoms were 

 bleeding at the nose and high fever, followed by a fetid and 

 highly colored and offensive discharge from the bowels, ending in 

 death, after great agony, in from twenty-four to thirty-six hours. 

 A post-mortem examination was conducted by Dr. H. B. Ambler, 

 veterinarian, and parte of the dead animals taken for 

 analysis. Under the advice of Dr. Ambler this fatal disease 

 seems to have been arrested by removing all uninfected animals 

 from the pasture and isolating them in other quarters. While 

 it would seem that, in the Keiffer pasture, the trouble must 

 have originated from the eating of some poisonous plant, I am 

 awaiting with great interest the report of Dr. Ambler in the 

 case, and in this interest I am joined by many anxious farmers 

 who have cause to remember the loss of valuable stock in the 

 manner above indicated. 



The instructors and agents in this division have as usual been 

 kept exceedingly busy in answering calls for assistance from the 

 butter and cheese factories, and many thousand samples of milk 

 have been tested. These tests often result in the location of 

 some serious trouble found in making up milk, and as a result 

 such trouble is often eradicated. It is also from this source 

 that we most frequently detect adulterations. 



The instruction always furnished in cheese making is bearing 

 fr.uit. First, by improving by a large percentage the general 

 quality of cheese manufactured in the five counties of this 

 division, and secondly, by the larger quantity of cheese 

 manufactured. I estimate that the output of cheese in this divi- 

 sion for the year 1901 will reach 22,500,0000 pounds, and will 

 bring into the pockets of the dairymen about $2,025,000. Add 

 to this a large increase in the amount of butter manufactured 

 and a corresponding increase in the amount of milk shipped 



