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Cyxthiana, Ky., Octoier 12, 1885. 

 Siu: Miicli progicf58 lias been inado in stamping out pleiuro-pncumonia during the 

 past, wcelc by Frisbio &. Lake killing nil theii- sick animals. As tlioy bave made the 

 sliiit 1 tliiiilc all others will follow. Among those condemned was Nutriua of Tunlaw. 

 On examination she had a temperature of lOOP F., and slight dullness over central 

 poiMon of right lung. On jwst inorltm examination found adhesions to second, third, 

 iuid fourth ribs on left side, and also second, tliird, fourth, fii'th, and sixth, with a cyst 3 

 inches iii diameter on right ; membrane of cyst was very nearly one-half mch in thick- 

 ness; adhesions on light side were very tenacious. The following is a list of those 

 ki lied w ith Frisbie & Lake's herd : No. 2:i, Jessie Laurence ; No. 147, Fay St. Helier ; No. 

 Kl, Dnke's Emblem; No. 27, Ilinwoor ; No. 143, Lady St. llclier; No. 2, Rissa Cicero; 

 one grade calf; one spotted heifer; No. 89, Pardon; bull, llannibal Duko; No. 88, 

 Dulies lladez ; the Jos. Stevens cow ; No. 92, Dora. Will wood; No. 80, Countess Georg- 

 iaua; No. 149, FloraSt. iielier ; grade spotted cow Camel ; spotted heifer ; three grade 

 lieifers; bull out of Dora Willwood; bull calf; calf out of Countess Georgiaua, and 

 Nutrina of Tunlaw. 



liesi>ect.fully yours, 



W. 11. WEAY, 

 Veterinary luepector. 

 Dr. D. E. Salmon, 



CliUf of JJtircan of Animal Indiisiry. ■ 



Cyntiiiana, Ky., Noveinhcr Ki, 1885. 



Sm: During my stay here I have found pleuro-pnenmouia at the following places, 

 viz : Frisbie & Lake's, W. T. llandy's, liule & Maffitt's, M. Bridwell's, J. T. Wither's, 

 and T. J. Megibben's, at Cyuthiana; on the places owned by W. T. Moreland and 

 Irving Cox, at Indian Creek neighborhood, 3^ miles east of Cyuthiana, and at D.N. 

 Branuock's, near the Pendleton County line, 13 miles north of Cyuthiana. The con- 

 tagion was spread at Cyntliiana in the body of a cow sold to Joseph Stevens by 

 Frisbie & Lake in the month of October, 1884, and not delivered until December 24, 

 ISSl, when she was taken to Mr. llandy's, where she remained three weeks. (Mr. 

 llandy's stock became sick some time in February, 1885.) She was then taken to Mr. 

 Steveiis's own place until she calved, which was about May 1, 1835. AVhile at Mr. 

 Stevens's place she came in coatact with his mother's cow, which sickened and died 

 about the middle of July. She Avas then taken to Eulo Sc Mallitt's lot and kept there 

 until July 1, 1885, when she was taken back to Mr. J. K. Lake's and pastured on tbe 

 race-coniso pasture. This cow liad a cough and looked unthrifty all last winter and 

 H|iring. Ou inspecting her, August 13, 1885, I found her suffering with acute and 

 chronic ]>leiiro-pneumonia. D. is\ Branuock's herd was bought at the auction sale 

 held here on June 2. As there was no quarantine established at that time and a great 

 deal of driving and iiilormingling of cattle, I think they got the contagion from pass- 

 ing Rule & MaOitt's lot while on their way to Cyuthiana to be sold. W. S. More- 

 land's cow- was pastured nest to Irving Cox, at the Indian Creek neighborhood, Mr. 

 Cox having taken his herd of 13 head, which had been pastured next to Frisbie & 

 Lake's herd on the Cox pasture, to Indian Creek some time in June. T. J. Megib- 

 ben's pasture was infected by a cow belonging to James liiche, which had been past- 

 ured in Rule & Maf'itt's lot all the spring, and was taken to F. J. Megibben's jdaco 

 some time in July. In August she was sold to a butcher in Cincinnati and killed. 



Frisbie &, Lake's whole lierd was kept at J. K. Lake's home place during the win- 

 ter of l834-'85. They wore turned out onx)asture April 17, 188.5, the healthiest in aji- 

 jicaranco going to the Cox pasture, IJ mile east of Cyntliiana. The milch cows wore 

 kept at the home place, and those that were sick, or had shown any symptoms of being 

 unthrifty were put on the race-course pasture. The 21 head that went to Tennessee 

 were taken from Lake's home place some time during the winter. Frisbie & Lake 

 have had 3 die since they have had the disease in their herds. As soon as they were 

 convinced that there was no remedy for the disease and an animal showed symptoms 

 of being sick, it was killed and buried. Fourteen were thus destroyed, and these, 

 with the 3 animals that died, make 17 head disposed of before August 1. On my 

 arrival on August 4, there were 41 head ou the Cox pasture, 17 head at the homo 

 ])lace, 27 ]iead on the race-course pasture, and 2 at 11. D. Frisbie's house, making a 

 total of 87 head. On October 7, 1885, I killed and buried 7 head from the Cox past- 

 ure. Ou August 14 I killed the bull Glory of Pleasant Hill ; on August 17 one heifer 

 died; on August 29 I killed two heifers, and on October 7 I killed 17 head from the 

 race-course j)asture ; on October 8 1 killed two animals from the homo phace. Frisbie 

 & Lake had some cattle on a place of Mr. Lake's, 3^ miles from town, on the Cyntlii- 

 ana and Falmouth pike. I believe this is the herd that went to Texas. Mr. Lake 

 sold this place last spring. 



