DISEASES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 13 



EEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONEES OX DISEASES OF DOMESTIC 



ANIMALS. 



To the Connecticut Board of Agriculture : 



Your Commissioners have been called to investigate a 

 number of cases of supposed contagious pleuro-pneumonia 

 or other contagious diseases in our domestic animals. Tliey 

 have, not often been of such a nature as to attract public 

 attention or create any general alarm, and hence may be 

 passed without specific detail. 



PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 



The alarm in a supposed case of pleuro-pneumonia, that at 

 first appeared of a threatening character, proved to be ground- 

 less. 



Close watch has been maintained in that part of the State 

 where the disease has heretofore existed, and the most vigi- 

 lant inquiry has failed to detect any cases in the State during 

 the past year, so that now our only danger is from fresh 

 importation of the disease from infected districts. 



CONTAGIOUS DIARRHEA IN CALVES 



has appeared in fatal form on several farms, especially where 

 veal calves are fattened for market. In these cases the calves 

 were bought from different farms, and hence it could not be 

 from any hereditary weakness, neither does it appear as 

 affecting particular breeds. The calves, bought in perfect 

 health, contracted the disease soon after they were placed in 

 the infected pens, nearly all thus exposed being attacked. 



Symptoms. — Profuse scouring, attended with pain, emacia- 

 tion, and loss of appetite. As the disease advances, the 



