434 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



agent of the Kentucky Ceutral Eailroad not to move tLeiu Avitbout a 

 I)ermit from this ])ei)artment. 



This action -was taken because, lirst, in the conference of Kentucky 

 cattle-breeders, lield in Lexington, Ky., September 19, 1884, JMcssrs. 

 Frisbie & Lake, tliroagli their counsel, were reported to have mudc 

 this statement : 



On tlie ir>tli iiistiuit, they received a letter li-om Carman, Acting Couunissioner of Aj^- 

 riculturo, and al'terwardN from Governor Knott, to iiiiiko no sales. Wednesday tbey 

 noticed several cattle sick, and Dr. Uagyard Avas sent for and slanj^htered a cow, and 

 discovered the presence of pleuro-pnenmonia. Since then several others have taken 

 sick, and have been in contact with tlie herd, -which numhcra upwards of 200 ani- 

 mals. — {Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, September 21, 18d4.) 



Secondly. In a letter to the Department, dated Se])tember 18, 1884, 

 Messrs. Frisbie & Lake wrote : 



Our h(jrd consists of about 'JI30 head, and all of thorn had an opportunity to take tho 

 di.sease if contagious. (First Annual Eeport of Bureau of Animal Industry, 1884, p. 

 ■^2.) 



Thii-dly. On September 24, 1884, the Chief of this Bureau visited the 

 farm of Mr. Lake, of which A. T. Fitzwater was tenant, and uj)on v.diich 

 a part of these animals were kept, and found there running with the 

 remainder of the cattle on the farm two animals which, on examination 

 of the lungs, presented very plain symptoms of i)leuro-pncumonia, and 

 others which were not examined, bnt which did not appear well, and 

 which were believed at the time to bo suffering from the same disease. 

 Mr. Frisbie was joresent at this examination, and expressed taeopmion 

 that a considerable number were more or less affected. Indeed, at tho 

 time of this visit no one questioned the fact that the unregistered as well 

 as the registered cattle had been exposed and v/ere sickening, and when 

 the stockmen of the State attempted to raise money to purchase and 

 slaughter this herd they appraised the unregistered as well as the reg- 

 istered, and they did this because of the statement of Messrs. Frisbie 

 & Lake that all were infected. 



These facts were deemed sufficient to justify tho holding of the herd 

 in Kentucky until a longer period had elapsed, even though the insjtect- 

 ors had been unable to find any traces of disease by a careful and thor- 

 ough examination. The examination actually made, it was learned 

 atierwards, was a very superficial one, less than half of the animals in 

 the herd being caught for this purpose. 



January 3, 1885, telegrams v.-ere received from Dr. Woodroffe and 

 Frisbie & Lake, stating that the cattle had already been ship])C(l, that 

 they were healthy and tor six months had been miles away from the 

 iiseased herd. A telegram was immediately sent to the governor of 

 Texas, notifying him of the facts in regard to the shipment of this herd 

 and recommending quarantine and careful supervision of the animals 

 for tit! ee months after their arrival. 



Jaiuiary 4, Dr. Woodroffe telegraphed that he had received informa- 

 tion that Dr. F. B. Hamilton, president of the Jersey Breeders' Associ- 

 ation, of Jackson, Tenn., had shipped to that place, by way of Lexing- 

 ton, li4 registered Jersey cows and calves from the infected herd of Fris- 

 bie & Lake; also that Frisbie & Lake's shipment to Texas consisted ot 

 125 head of unregistered Jerseys. 



Upon the receipt of information that animals undoubtedly affected 

 with pleuro-pneumonia had been taken from the herd of Frisbie & Lake 

 to Tennessee, the governor of that State was at once notilied of the fact, 

 and Dr. Hamilton and the railroad agents at Jackson, Tenn., were no- 

 tilied that any shipment of these animals from Tennessee into any other 



