90 THE LUNG PLAGUE OF CATTLE. 



ommend, not because impure air or other cause of injury on shipboard 

 would be at all likely to produce lung plague, but because the vitiated 

 air is highly calculated to develop an inflammation of the lungs, which 

 might arouse suspicion of lung plague. 



49th. To carry out the above objects, we recommend an ample appo- 

 priation by Congress, and the appointment of some Federal official or 

 officials to control the work. 



50th. For the extinction of the lung plague in infected districts we 

 consider it necessary that the authority Federal or State intrusted 

 with the work should be clothed with the following power : 



a. To abolish or regulate markets for store cattle in the infected dis- 

 tricts. 



b. To require the slaughter at the fat markets in infected districts of 

 all cattle entering these markets. Fat cattle for slaughter elsewhere 

 can be obtained at the bonded market. 



c. To prohibit all movement of cattle in infected districts, except under 

 special license. 



d. To inspect all cattle in suspected districts. 



e. To slaughter all infected cattle, and in exceptional cases those that 

 have been exposed to infection. 



/. To have the condemned animals appraised and the owners liberally 

 indemnified. 



g. To prohibit all exposure of cattle on highways, or on unfenced or 

 insecurely fenced places in infected districts, or of suspected cattle on 

 a lot adjoining one occupied by healthy cattle or bordering on a high- 

 way. 



h. To prohibit all pasturage of more than one herd on one pasture in 

 infected districts, unless under special license. 



i. To disinfect all premises, fodder, and other articles that have been 

 presumably exposed to inspection. 



j. To institute and enforce such minor rules as shall be demanded by 

 the peculiar conditions of particular districts. 



fc. To provide and enforce suitable penalties for enfringement of orders. 



51st. In order to carry out these suggestions, we reccommend a lib- 

 eral appropriation by Congress, to be disbursed by some designated 

 Federal officer. 



52d. In case the work be delegated to the different States, we advise 

 that a liberal appropriation be made from the Federal exchequer, suffi- 

 cient to cover the greater part of the outlay ; and that this be paid over 

 to the Executive of the infected State on the approval of the plan and 

 execution of the work in the particular States by a verterinary sanitary 

 organization designated for the purpose by the Federal Government. 



JAMES LAW. 

 E. F. THAYER. 

 J. H. SANDERS. 



REPORT OF DR. A. M. FARRINGTON TO THE UNITED STATES TREASURY 



CATTLE COMMISSION. 



Prof. JAMES LAW, 



Chairman United States Treasury Cattle Commission : 



In accordance with the appointment received September 8, as " Veterinary In- 

 spector of the Treasury Cattle Commission, to visit the various cattle markets of the 

 West, and the feeding yards along the lines of cattle traffic, so as to ascertain and re- 

 port upon the health of animals passing through such places, and further directed to 

 examine professionally such herds as are in near proximity to the above places, and 

 the herds of dairies and of distilleries and other factories which draw upon the large 

 markets for their supplies of fresh live stock," I would submit the following report as 

 the result of my inquiries in that direction : 



