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Bedford county, Va—Drought retarded the growth of tobacco, but when 
rain came ripening was delayed until frost destroyed a great many entire crops, 
and injured all more or less. 
Randolph county, W. V—The tobacco erop is indifferent. 
Groves county, Ky.—Tobacco very fine, not eaten much by worms, housed 
in good order, very little damaged by frost; some little cut too green. 
Pendleton county, Ky.—The crop of tobacco is unusually large and fine 
in this county. 
Osage county, Mo—The fall rains kept tobacco from ripening, and on 
the 7th of October we had a frost that destroyed two-thirds of the entire 
crop. 
Me Cracken county, Ky—The tobacco crop has probably -never been excelled 
in this county; most of it was well matured before cutting; we have had 
very few worms, so that our tobacco is very nearly whole, which greatly 
improves the quality of the crop. The season has been rather wet to cure 
tobacco of a very fine color, but our crop is mostly a very nice red; some, how- 
ever, is fine piebald, hickory leaf, &c. 
THE LUNG PLAGUE OF CATTLE. 
New York, December 31, 1868. 
Sir: I havethe honor of transmitting to you a brief preliminary report on 
the contagious lung disease of cattle, in accordance with your instructions of 
the 7th of November. 
It has been my aim to devote less space to details of visits and cases exam- 
ined than to the general history and the best means of preventing the disease. 
The motive which has actuated me in this has been your desire to condense in 
a short memoir the facts and suggestions best calculated to insure the adoption 
of rational means for the complete extinction, on American soil, of a disease that 
is entirely of foreign importation. 
I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, 
JOHN GAMGHE. 
Hon. Horace Capron, 
Commissioner of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 
I. NAMES BY WHICH THE DISEASE IS KNOWN. 
* 
The earlier outbreaks in the British Isles of a very fatal form of inflamation 
of the organs of respiration were described under the title, “ New Disease.” 
Reports from Germany soon indicated that the malady was the “ Lungenseuche” 
of the Germans, the “ Péripneumonie contagieuse des bétes bovines” of the 
French, the “ Polmonea dei bovini” of the Italians. It was, therefore, soon 
identified in England under the names of the “lung disease,” “ pleuro-pneu- 
monia,” and “ contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle.’ It was truly a new dis- 
ease in England, and the readers of our great and pains-taking veterinary com- 
piler Youatt can be assured that had the malady existed in England at the time 
he wrote, 35 years since, it would have received very different notice at his 
hands than reference, under the head “ chronic pleurisy,” as a “ species” of this 
disease, “or of mingled pneumonia and pleurisy.” All he knew on the subject 
he translated from a French journal*, in which Professor Lecoq described the 
affection as it occurred at Soire-le-Chateau, in Avesnes, France. 
* Recueil de Médecine Vétérinaire, 1833. 
