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The superintendent said thai \\hene\er :i diseased liullork was found, thai il \\as 

 tanked." and lint sold lor I'm id. lit- had not forind it m -cedars to tank " more than 

 halt' a do/en steers since the house \vas built in 1 .-?!>. The eat Me \\.-iv vei \ healthy, 

 and \\ ere not diseased. 



I examined the lungs of a nnml>er of eat t le, and also found t hem >onnd. 



The Only feeding Stable is at tin- distillers of !;. L. Martin A Co. Some ne\\ sheds 

 had hern put up this (all. that would hold I, i\:\'> head. 



I \ isited the stalile \o\eniher Hi. when there were 1 .1)1 7 st eers t ied lip, the li|x| ones 



heiiiLi put in Oetnlx-r 1U. There were none that showed any symptoms of lung 

 plague. There \\eiv t \vo or three that had been badly scalded by the hot slop run- 

 ning Over OB to them: with tliat e\ce]tion none of them were sick. The stalde is 

 built near the Missouri River on posts -I feet high, consequently t he drainage was all 

 that could In- wished. Kadi steer has a space :\ feet \\ ide. ,- feet hi-h behind, antl 1C. 

 feet in front, and <> feet long. Between the feeding t roughs of two rows is an alley ;{ 

 feet witle with a door at each em 1 and a vent i la tor above, -J feet hi^li along 1 he \\ hole 

 length t>fthc building. There are twenty-four windows _' feet hi-h and 2.1 feet Ion-; 

 in each end. and !U along the side, of the same si/e, which admit air. 



.1. K. Fred has a dairy of 12.". cows, wliicli he feeds upon slop brought through :i 

 long tiil>e from the same' distillery. He states that he has lost but four cows, which 

 dietl of milk fever. He has some cows 1 hat he has kept for five years. He buys only 

 the best cows that he can find, and likes to buy the best cows of dairymen who are 

 M-lling out. which would show th;it there was DO danger of bringing disease in from 

 other dairies. He ties them up only for milking, and allows them to feed in the pas- 

 ture the remainder of the time. The cows were free from lung plague. 



Charles Mankameyer, Kast Eighteenth street, has 15 cows, which were healt hy. 

 In six years he states that but two cows have died. 



E. A*. Axtel, East Eighteenth street, has 13 cows that were healthy and states that 

 none have died. 



Thomas M. Turner has 45 cows that were healthy and none have died. 



At the Kock Spring dairy were (50 cow s that were healthy. It was stated that two 

 had died this season. 



H. N. Smith, Woodland avenue, had 45 cows that were healthy, and states that 

 none have died. 



.John Lynn, near Old Fair Grounds, had 24 cows that were healthy, and states that 

 one only had died this summer. 



These dairymen have very good stables, well drained and ventilated. They have 

 fenced pasture lots and keep their cows from year to year. Whenever new ones are 

 bought they are bought of farmers. The feed, in addition to ha-y and grass, is wheat 

 bran ami corn meal. No lung plague has ever been known among the cattle in Kaiir 

 sas City, though this is a market where large numbers are handled. 



HAMILTON, MO. 



I had been informed that eastern dairy calves had been shipped from New York 

 city into Hamilton. Caldwell County, Missouri, and it was thought best to ascertain 

 if any with lung plague had been introduced. 



On arriving in Hamilton I was informed by Judge Austin, who deals in cattle, that 

 there had been eastern calves brought into this section, and that many of them had 

 died, but from improper treatment and want of care, and not from disease. The only 

 disease that troubled stockowners here, he stated, was Texas fever, and even that \\ as 

 easily controlled. 



.Jacob W. Esteh said he was engaged in shipping eastern calves, and last season 

 shipped TIKI, which he bought in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, and not in 

 New York city. These calves he sold to farmers in the vicinity, and about 50 of them 

 died. This season he had bought 170 in nearly the same locality. He was fourteen 

 days on the road, being delayed a week in one place by a wrecked train, and was un- 

 able to get sufficient food lor the calves. Upon arriving in Hamilton, in a cold storm 

 of sleet and rain, the half-starved calves were turned into a Held without shelter and 

 without food. About 25 of them had died, perhaps more: he had not kept account of 

 the exact nuinljer. 1 examined 20 of the poorest of them, the others had been sent 

 to a neighboring farm. They were very poor, shivering with the cold, and covered 

 with snow ; icicles were hanging from their hair, as they were unprotected from the 

 cold storm. They ate eagerly of some food that was brought them, as the ground was 

 covered with snow and they could obtain no grass. Some could scarcely stand up, 

 they were so weak and exhausted. The lungs were not hepati/.ed and there were no 

 .abnormal sounds in respiration. The temperatures of t wo was 100 .4 Fall., and 100. 6 

 Fab. A native cow in the same field with these calves showed no si^n of disease. 

 The change of climate from warm stables to cold prairie storms, without shelter and 



