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ny The authorities of Connecticut have also failed to accept the rules 
and regulations of the Department, partly, no doubt, because there 
has been but very little pleuro-pneumonia in the State. There is 
now one affected herd in quarantine, and one other that is quaran- 
tined as suspicious. Correspondence is now in progress in reference 
to the affected herd and it will probably be purchased and slaugh- 
tered by the Department within a short time. 
CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
The progress of the work for the extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia 
during the last year has been extremely satisfactory. This disease 
has been eradicated from Illinois, from two counties in New York, 
- from two counties in New Jersey, and from three counties in Mary- 
- jand. It is now almost, if not quite, confined to five counties in | 
‘New York, two counties in New Jersey, and one county in Mary- 
land, in all of which active work is in progress. There are outside 
of these counties one herd in Connecticut, two herds in Pennsylva- 
nia, and one herd in Virginia believed to be diseased and which are 
in quarantine. ; 
Compared with the situation when the Bureau of Animal Indus- 
try was established, the present condition is certainly very reassur- 
ing. In 1884 pleuro-pneumonia existed in two counties in Ohio, in 
five counties in Illinois, one county in Kentucky, and early in 1885 
in one county i Missouri. At that time or since it has existed in 
one county in Massachusetts, eight counties in New York, seven 
counties in New Jersey, one county in Delaware, five counties in 
Maryland; two counties in Virginia, and in the District of Columbia. 
It has also existed in several counties in Pennsylvania, in reference 
to which the Department has not complete information. _The work 
necessary to eradicate the disease in Westchester County, N. Y¥., and 
in Baltimore County, Md., has probably been more than half com- 
pleted in each case. 
In the counties of New York, Kings, and Queens, in the State of 
New York, and in Hudson County, N. J., there will bea large amount 
of very expensive work to do. There is every reason to beliéve, 
however, that this work can be practically completed and the plague 
exterminated by the end of the next fiscal year, if it can be carried 
on under the same authority and with no greater obstacles than have 
been encountered up to this time. 
Owing to the apprehension existing as to the danger of pleuro- 
pmneumonia being disseminated by cars in which diseased cattle had 
een transported, the following circular in reference to disinfection 
was prepared and sent to transportation companies, and has been | 
very generally observed : 
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, 
Washington, D. C., May 31, 1887. 
To the managers of all railroads and transportation companies in the United States: 
Yourattention is called to the fact that contagious pleuro-pneumonia exists among 
cattle in the States of Illinois, Maryland, and New York, and that the infected dis- 
tricts in said States have been duly quarantined by the Department of Agriculture 
in the manner provided by the act of Congress of May 29, 1884, establishing the Bureau 
of Animal Industry. 
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