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and I feet high, along tin- wlnde length ill' the building. There were <>oo .-it t ! in this 

 stable, which had been put in at various I imes since \o\ ember I. It \v;is intended to 

 Mil up tin- stable MS soon as the cattle could lie olit M i ncd. They were .-ill healthy. 

 Among the 6ther Stables Was One built in !>.">>. which had lfcn used ever since to feed 

 cat t le in. It contained 270 Steers pu1 in t he last of September. The ot her stM Ides were 

 built ii]on the same general plan as tle>>e before m -nt iom-d. All t he CM 1 1 le were 

 healthv. It was stated that lint t lire*' or lour had died this season. 



At White Mills distillers Mr. 1 M.ekwort h is feeding al.ont ?<MI oattle. Tin- practice 

 here is to teed two lots M year, one lot |tnt in the st aides iii August or September, and 

 sold in .lannary: and another lot put in in October and November, and sold in Max 

 and .lime. Cattle have been led in this way lor eight or nine years, and \\ith no 

 losses 1'r mi disease. The cattle were bought at the stock-yards. Three had died. 

 The sheds were built in t he ordinar\ wa\.and alloued lor each :',ls.7f> cubic (eel 

 space. In one end were 30 cows belonging to a milkman, led in the same manner as 

 the steers. All were healthy. 



At G. H. Kabe's distillery 'Abraham First is the owner of the cattle. There are .-it 

 present 3.!.") cattle that have been in about two months. The general arrangements 

 tor feeding, ventilating, &c., were about the same as at other places. In an adjoin- 

 in g shed H. Reler had -H cows that were kept lor milk and 30 bulls that were being 

 fattened. The shed was built like t he ot hers, except that seven feet from I he lloor it 

 was boarded over and hay was stored above the cattle. This allowed for no escape 

 of foul air through the ventilators in the roof, and gave 394 cubic feet space each. 

 The fat ones are sold to the butcher in the spring, and fresh cows are bought of 

 dealers to till their places. In the summer they are turned out to pasture during the 

 day. No lung plague a mono; the cattle. 



At Maddox. Hobart *.V Co. 's distillery, (Juest st reel . were 482 cattle. Some of these 

 were bulls that had been fed during t he summer. They were very fat, and were being 

 sold for beef. In this way about six hundred cattle are fed during the year. 

 Most of the steei-s were put in about September 1. In the summer the bulls are given 

 double stalls () feet wide; but as the weather becomes cooler steers are bought and 

 put into the stalls with the bulls, giving eMch a space three feet wide. If any disease 

 were developed during the summer by the cattle tied up during the hot weather it 

 would be contracted by the steers put alongside of them. No trouble, of this kind i 

 experienced by those engaged in feeding cattle in this way. The annual loss was- 

 stated to he I per cent. The sheds were about like the average. 



At Walsh, Kellogg & Co.'s distillery were 1,082 cattle, with 696' in one stable and 

 386 in another. The great part had been put in since October 1. Forty bulls and 

 64 steers were fed during the summer, put in in May. None had died. Most of the 

 sheds are so arranged that hogs can be fed in them when not occupied with cattle. 

 These stables are built upon a trestle about 30 feet high. The manure and urine are 

 carried away by a stream at one end of the stables. The cattle were healthy. 



At Fleichman's distillery, Kiverside, were: 600 cattle. Most of them were put in 

 about October 1, though 17 steers were put in August 23, ami others at various 

 times since then. They were bought at stock-yards, with the exception of 2 car- 

 loads that came direct from Saint Louis. The ventilation of the siables was very 

 good, but they were not sufficiently lighted. There is fed upon slop at this dist ilh-ry 

 cows belonging to the following owners: (Jeo. Fennen, 6:> cows ; H. Fallon, 40; \V. 

 Patterson, 2(5: II. Thomas, 27; H. Olding, 49; J. L. Patterson, 2J. The cows aiv 

 kept in long narrow stables. The stalls (i feet wide, and containing two animals 

 tied with chains around the neck, and eighteen inches long are arranged on each 

 Bide of a passage- way 3 feet wide. Feeding-troughs containing the slop run along- 

 each side of the passage-way, and are 1 foot wide and 10 inches high. The cows 

 stand upon a plank floor (5 feet high. At the end of the lloor is a manure-gutter 1 

 foot wide and 6 inches deep: behind this an alley f> iV-e.t wide. Light is admitted by 

 glass windows, 2 by :{ feet, behind every other double stall. Hay is kept oxer tin- 

 cattle, so that there is no way for the heated air to pass out, especially when the 

 windows and doors are shut in cold weather. In some stables, however, tubes 1 foot 

 square pass up through the hay-loft and through the peak of the, roof every 10 feet. 

 The stables vary from 6 to 9- feet high. Fresh cows are bought of dealers usually 

 in the spring, are milked about 9 months, and fattened and sold for beef. 



From the milk inspector's report for I860 it appears that there are 284 dairies in 

 operation, containing 9,462 cows. With the exception of 17, slop and brewers' grains 

 is fed to a greater or less extent with other food. 



I>r. Denneman. milk inspector, said he made inspections of all the dairies several 

 times a year, but found no disease among the cows kept in them. In company with 

 Dr. D. I examined the following, situated about four miles from the city : Thomas 

 French's Sons. Oakley, who have the largest dairy around the city, have 320 cows. 

 They stated tha they had carried on this business 1 wel ve years and had >een nothing 

 like lung plague among their cows. In the summer cows often die very suddenly of 

 anthrax, but this season none had died of the entire herd. They avoid buying cows 



