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herd of have been sold sick to Maybaum. It is further alleged that 

 others of the original nursery and Tnttler herd after passing into the 

 hands of Maybaum found (heir way into New Jersey, and infected two 

 separate herds at Washington and Hast Millstone, IN . J. To complete 

 the story it must be added that Maybanin continued to deal in cows and 

 to use the same buildings for the accommodation of the transient cattle 

 without having adopted any disinfection or other visible measures of 

 precaution.* 



Where such a system is carried on, to trust in the disappearance of the 

 disease is to trust in a delusion. The lack of recorded cases is mainly 

 the result of the absence of inspection, and a different showing will be 

 made when the movement of cattle is prevented, save under license, and, 

 when a thorough inspection is made and repeated at intervals. 



A nother lesson to be deduced from the above is that no system of the 

 mere purchase and slaughter of the sick, apart from the suspension of 

 movement and a frequent inspection of the herds, can be relied on to 

 stamp out the disease. A herd may be visited twenty times without 

 the discovery of sickness, yet the next occasion may detect the affection, 

 the germs of which have been present throughout. 



An impression has been created that the disease has now very little, 

 prevalence in New Jersey, but in a visit to Newark, on January 2 and 

 3, Professor Law found within the limits of a single street at Orange 

 four infected herds, while others were reported in adjacent villages. So 

 far as could be learned, not one of these had been visited or put under 

 any restriction on behalf of the State, lie learned further that no sepa- 

 rate markets were kept for cattle from healthy and cattle from diseased 

 districts; and that around the cities and villages promiscuous pasturage 

 is still allowed on the open commons. This laxity is doubtless excusa- 

 ble on the ground that the entire yearly appropriation for dealing with 

 this disease in Ne-.v Jersey, is $5,000, which is utterly inadequate to a 

 successful work of extinction. It is only right that this inadequacy and 

 its consequences should be fully known to those intrusted with Federal 

 legislation on the subject. 



With regard to Pennsylvania, it may said that in spite of a very liberal 

 system of indemnity, which is one of the most effective measures that 

 can be devised, the disease was at lirst perpetuated by the preservation 

 of chronic cases, and throughout by the admission of cattle from all 

 sources and for all purposes store and beef into a common market. It 

 is understood that chronic cases are now condemned, but on the other 

 hand the indemnity has been reduced from sound value to one-half, and 

 this, together with the infected markets, have so far served to keep up 

 the disease. 



In Maryland a commission was created to attend to the disease, but 

 we have learned nothing of their doings. A State veterinarian was 

 also appointed with orders to report, for the governors action, all cases 

 of the plague. Extensive prevalence of lung plague was discovered, but 



*Smc3 the above was written the following additional cases have come to light: 

 Joseph Hyde started in December last with a dairy of 43 cows in Westchester County, 

 New York. Soon lung plague appeared ; two died and the remainder were resold in the 

 Union Stock- Yards (and sheep-house), New York, for beef and store purposes. They 

 carried disease into different places in New York and New Jersey. On February 

 24 was found in the sheep-house at the Union Stock- Yards a cow sick with lung 

 plague and in company with 38 o f her fresh milch cows waiting for purchasers. Two 

 large herds (one of 100 head) in Westchester County have been recently infected with, 

 lung plague through cows purchased at the Union Stock- Yards. In December, 1881, 

 A. S. Baldwin, of Patterson, Putnam County, N. Y., bought two cows at the sheep- 

 house, New York, which infected his herd of 32 head, and exposed to infection two 

 herds of 20 and 30 head, respectively in neighboring pastures. 



