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adopted by the English government to avoid the harsh necessity 

 of a resort to the 'stamping-out process,' and that it was com- 

 pelled to come to it at last, and to admit that it was the only 

 effectual means of avoiding a far more terrible disaster, the losses 

 in two years being about twenty millions of dollars. 



"By a reference to the following report of the Massachusetts 

 Commissioners on Contagious Diseases among Cattle, it will be 

 seen that the aggregate cost to the State of extirpating the dis- 

 ease from our herds has been less than seventy thousand dollars, 

 an amount which must appear trifling when compared with the 

 results attained, and the exemption secured, by the efficient 

 efforts of the State Board of Agriculture, and the too little 

 appreciated labors of the Cattle Commissioners. 



"The Commissioners on Contagious Diseases among Cattle, in 

 submitting their report, congratulate the people of the Com- 

 monwealth upon the probable extinction of the disease, (no case 

 having come to their knowledge since October, 1865,) which but 

 a few years since threatened to be of so serious a character, viz.: 

 pleuro-pneumonia. 



"The Commissioners have been called to several towns during 

 the past year, to examine diseased animals, yet not a case of 

 contagious pleuro-pneumonia lias been found. 



"A concise history of the disease, from its first appearance in 

 Mr. Chenery's herd in Belmont, to the present time, is deemed 

 of sufficient importance to warrant its insertion in this report. 



"In the latter part of May, 1859, four cattle arrived from 

 Holland and were taken to the farm of Mr. Chenery.* Two of 

 them were sick, and in a few days died. Another soon after 

 sickened and died. At the time of the death of the third, three 

 calves were sold to go to North Brookfield, one of which was 

 taken to the herd of a dealer for treatment, being sick. The 



* See notice of Mr. Chenery's importation of Holstein cattle, page It59. L. F. A. 



