•162 REPOET OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTUKE. 



On February 10, at One hundred aiul twentieth street and Fourth 

 avenue, I found three cows whicli liad been exposed to infection, and 

 were in quarantine. They appeared bealthj', and one had just been sold 

 to a butcher named McBvoy. 



In Treniont, at the stable of Mr. Bohle, I found two cows, one of which 

 had been jint into an infected stable on Christmas. Her temperature 

 was 101° Falir., and she was breathing at the rate of 30 respirations per 

 niiiuite. The other animal was a Jersey cow; both animals had been 

 ordercHl slaughtered as soon as they could be got ready for the butcher. 

 A Mr. Connors, a neighbor, had had some trouble with his herd, but 

 they, were quarantined and seemed to be doing welh The infection to 

 this iierd of Mr. Bohle's was communicated by a cow that w^as pastured 

 with ten others on a common lot. She developed contagious pleuro- 

 pneumonia, and was killed in the month of August. Three months and 

 nineteen days thereof ler the second anijnal was attacked and sent to the 

 oiial dock, where she was sla^ughtered. At the end of three weeks a 

 third, and at the end of four weeks a fourth, animal was taken sick, and 

 both were slaughtered. The first one of these aiiimals belonged to Mr. 

 B. Jorkman, the other three to Mr. Bohle, who, as has been before 

 stated, bought a fresh cow on Christmas and put her in with one 

 remaining from his original herd. This was in direct violation of the 

 law and his instructions. She is now diseased and has been ordered to 

 be killed. These ten animals were strictly isolated as soon as the first 

 cow was killed, and no other infection was then possible. Two of them 

 have since been fattened and sent to the butcher in a healthy condition. 

 The remainder, with the exception of those belonging to Mr. Bohle, are 

 still free from disease. 



Oil the 17th day of February, in company with Professor Law and Dr. 

 Hopkins, I visited the farm of Mr. Joseph Sprague, in Kent, Putnam 

 County, whose herd was infected and had been in quarantine for some 

 time. The herd consisted of 53 head, and were sold during the day by 

 the State commission to butchers who had been notified to attend. The 

 animals brought an average of $6 per head, which was regarded as a 

 low price. Three of the animals were considered toQ badly diseased for 

 beef, and on being killed showed well-marked lesions of the disease in 

 its difl'erent stages. This herd was infected by a cow purchased from a 

 dealer named Robinson. 



On February 18, in company with the same gentleman, I visited Cro- 

 ton Falls, Westchester County. We found here a gentleman by the 

 name of Butler, who had lost 31 animals out of a herd of 33 by the 

 plague. His remaining cow was in quarantine, with no symjjtoms of 

 the disease manifest. On the 15th of June last Mr. Butler bought 17 

 cows of Mr. Eobinson, the dealer above referred to, and they were de- 

 livered to him on the i7th of the same month. They had been pastured 

 .'ill the summer on "Hyatt's lower f urm^^ ivlth a cotv that had heen sicle 

 but had recovered. The first animal on Butler's farm sickened on Sep- 

 tember 10, and soon died. The remaining 30 head were either slaugh- 

 tered for beef or killed diseased. 



On February 19, in company with the same gentleman, I visited the 

 farm of Mr. Daniel Austin, in Yonkers, Westchester County. Origi- 

 nally this gentleman had a herd of 27 head, 18 of which had either died 

 of the pliigue or had been killed for beef in the incipient stages of the 

 (i isease. Five of the animals were killed for beef, and showed no lesions 

 of the disease. Of the four remaining two are well-marked chronic 

 cases, l e., having portions of encysted lung. This herd was infected 



