THE LUNG PLAGUE OF CATTLE. 



pasture away from all other stock, and are put in the stable only to bo milked, and ia 

 Stormy weather. He feeds malt, corn-starch feed, bran, and cut corn-fodder. 



North of the city, two miles from those just mentioned, I examined the following: 



Andrew Caldwell, Brookside avenue, has 17 cows that were in a fenced pasture near 

 the stable. They are allowed to run upon the commons, across the street, part of the 

 time. In four years three cows had died, but milk fever was given as the cause of 

 death. Fresh cows are bought of farmers in the country, and kept from year to year. 



David D. Mills, Keystone avenue, has 25 cows that were roaming about upon tin- 

 commons, but he assured me he never had any trouble with disease among them. 



B. F. Hill had 11 cows upon the same commons, and had no disease among them. 



Lewis Page, Pendletoii pike, has 20 cows that were in the stable when I saw them. 

 but run upon the commons that surround the place, most of the time. The stable was 

 dirty, poorly built, with no drainage, the manure thrown out at one end and remained 

 there. Cows are bought of cow-dealers, and kept until fat. 



Fletcher dairy, Bright wood, near toll-gate, has 70 head, including 30 milch cows. 

 They were in * fenced pasture, away from other stock. They are kept from year to 

 year, and fresh stock is raised. The feed, in addition to hay and grass, is malt, corn- 

 starch feed, and bran. 



John F. Caudell, Brightwood, 33 cows, that were out upon the commons. 



J. W. Crank, Brightwood, 51 cows, that were also upon the commons. No disease 

 is ever contracted by thus allowing their cows to mingle with those of various own- 

 ers from the neighboring localities. The feed and general management was similar 

 to those before mentioned. 



Samuel Sheils, Brightwood, has 16 cows upon a farm dairy a mile away from any 

 of the others; has been in the dairy business ten years in different places around the 

 city and in some large dairies, but says he has never known of a contagious disease 

 among the cows. 



East of the city I examined the following dairies : 



Henry Wagner, Shelby ville pike, has 34 head, 21 of them milch cows. They are 

 allowed to run on the common most of the summer. Fresh cows are bought of deal- 

 ers, and fat ones sold to butchers. Feed is malt, corn-starch feed, and bran. 



Win. Melloh, Shelby ville pike, 31 head, 26 milch cows. I examined them in an in- 

 closed pasture ; yet commons surround the place, and the cows are sometimes herded 

 upon them. Fresh stock is bought in the country and at stock-yards. 



About one mile away were a herd of 52 thoroughbred Jerseys, belonging to Watson 

 J. Hassleman. Some were imported directly from the Jersey Isles, and others were 

 raised upon the place. Their milk is sold in the city, and commands a high price. 

 Wheat-bran is fed in addition to hay and grass. None have died. They are kept in 

 a fenced pasture in summer, away from other stock. On the same farm were 22 cows 

 belonging to Win. Mead. 



Win. L. Pyle has 50 cows. He has pasturage for them, and feeds besides malt, bran, 

 and corn-starch feed ; he buys fresh cows wherever he can find good ones, milks them 

 as lon-ij as they give milk, and then fattens and sells to butcher. None have died. I 

 examined the lungs of cattle killed at Kingan & Co.'s, John H. Crosby's, and at other 

 slaughter-houses. They were all healthy. 



CINCINNATI. 



The last city I visited was Cincinnati, Ohio, December 7. The stock-yards are 

 known as the United Railroad stock-yards. The receipts in 18SO were 188,25 head 

 df cattle ; shipments, 84,189. There is stationed here by the board of health a live- 

 stock inspector, whose especial business it is to look after diseased animals and pre- 

 vent them from being used as food. He stated that there was no contagions disease 

 like lung plague among the cattle. The amount of Texas fever was .very small, as 

 the few Texas cattle that came here in the summer time were put in separate pens, 

 away from the other cattle. There were crippled and bruised cattle that he con- 

 demned, and were sent to the rendering works. I inspected with him upon several 

 days the cattle offered for sale. There were no sick ones among them. All grades of 

 cattle are put upon the market, from fat cattle that would do credit to any fat-stock 

 show, to very lean and old cows used by sausage-makers. Fresh cows and their 

 calves, " stockers" and " feeders " are for sale also. Commission merchants and cat- 

 tle-dealers all stated that there was no lung plague in the cattle here. 



The feeding-stables, in connection with the Mill Creek Distilling Company, known 

 as " Gaff's distillery," have a capacity for feeding 2,400 cattle. From this number fed 

 last year L. Sadler, of the firm. of J. H. Sadler & Co., who own the cattle, stated that 

 only six died during the entire season. The only trouble they have had from disease 

 was two years ago 15 or 20 died of Texas fever. Now they waited until after there 

 had been 'a good frost before tilling up, and avoided the fever. The largest stable 

 is 300 feet long, 131 feet wide, and averages 12 fest high. It will hold 1,000 head, 

 giving 471.60 cubic feet space to each. The ventilation is by a ventilator, 12 feet wide 



