No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 407 



mouth disease in the Pittsburgh yards and tliree herds affected in 

 Lancaster county, but none of tlios animals liad gone tlirough tlie 

 yards with tbe disease, lliey liad gone to tlie farms and developed 

 the disease there. We looiced over 1,350 cattle in the Lancaster 

 yards and did not find a symptom of disease, three days after the ex- 

 amination was made, but we found the disease on the farm. 



That outbreak tui'ued out to be the worst calamity we ever had in 

 the way of contagious diseases among animals in America, and I 

 brought you this outline to show you something about the statistics 

 of the disease in the country. I presume you are familiar with it, 

 but I just want 1o call your attention to the way the thing was dis- 

 tributed. This gives you the number of states in which the disease oc- 

 curred, the number of counties in each state and the number infected. 

 You will notice that in Illinois they had 102 counties in the state, 

 of which 52 were infected; number of herds infected, 768; number 

 of premises infected, 709; in Pennsylvania we have 67 counties, of 

 which 34 were infected; number of herds infected, 858; number of 

 premises infected, 795. I will not read over the whole chart, but 

 Illinois was one of the worst infected states in the Union. More than 

 half the animals that were killed were in the State of Illinois. The 

 number of cattle slaughtered was 24,338; number of swine slaugh- 

 tered, 33,434; number of sheep slaughtered, 1,248; number of goats 

 slaughtered, 22; total number of animals slaughtered, 59,024, in 

 Illinois on account of this disease. 



The first infection they found on November 1, two days after we 

 found it in the Pittsburgh yards, and the last case they had till this 

 report was made was April 23, but since that they had a second out- 

 break and that has added a good many animals to the total reported 

 here. 



It is estimated that it cost the State of Illinois |200,000 to clean up 

 this second outbreak, and just last Saturday they had another little 

 outbreak in the central part of the State. They found the disease on 

 one farm there; a suspicious lot of hogs were received in the Na- 

 tional stockj^ards at East St. Louis, Illinois; the Federal Govern- 

 ment sent men back to that section to look over the animals in that 

 community and see if the disease existed there; they were not quite 

 sure on this shipment that came into East St. Louis, but they sent 

 their men back to the neighborhood from which the hogs came and 

 they located one definite herd there that w^as positively infected with 

 the disease, and 16 head of cattle and 24 hogs in that herd. They 

 had one other farm in the neighborhood that was suspicious. The 

 Government immediately quarantined that county, and they do not 

 know from what source that infection came. That is a disagreeable 

 feature of the thing; if we knew where the infection came from, we 

 would be more contented about it, but previous to that, the last dis- 

 ease they had in Illinois was the 25th of December, in Lake county, 

 Illinois. That was not very far from the Durand herd w^here there 

 was so much excitement before they could destroy it. 



The second outbreak has cost the State of Illinois, or will cost them, 

 1200,000 to clean up, and it came from infected hog cholera serum 

 made the last of October, and from some hogs that came from the 

 southern part of Michigan, and it was not knoAvn at the time that 

 they had the disease, but it was found later that that serum con- 



