108 THE LUNG PLAGUE OF CATTLE. 



in the stock-yards during the summer, but at other seasons of the year they buy them 

 there and also of drovers, or else go into some of the farming towns in Kentucky or 

 Ohio and select what cows they wish to buy. There were no sick ones at the time of 

 my visit. The stable is long and narrow, with the cows along each side of a central 

 alley 4 feet wide, in which passes a car containing the feed. Cows are tied with 

 chains 20 inches long, in stalls 3 feet wide, with partitions- on each side, 6 feet long ; 

 feeding trough 1 foot wide, 10 inches deep ; manure gutter 1 foot Avide, 8 inches deep, 

 and a passage-way 4 feet wide behind that. Ten feet above the floor it is boarded 

 over and hay stored. Light is admitted by glass windows every other 4 feet along 

 the side. Feed is malt, bran, corn-starch feed, and clover hay. Pasturage is furnished 

 in the summer. Everything was neat and clean about the premises. Pure water for 

 the cows is obtained from an artesian Avell. 



H. Stagge, Oakley, has 74 cows, and states that none have died this season. The 

 stable is constructed. similar to the foregoing, except there are double stalls, 6 feet 

 Avide, in place of single ones, and they are eight feet high. Fresh cows are bought of 

 dealers, milked as long as they Avill giA r e milk, and then fattened and sold to the 

 butcher. 



Louis Graber, Norwood, 54 COAVS; Henry Weghorst, NorAvood, 50 cows; A. Chap- 

 man, 69 cows. 



With Dr. Denmaii I also examined the following dairies in the vicinity of Guest 

 street, where the cows are fed largely upon slop, some of them the entire season and 

 others only during the winter. 



Henry Evers, Guest street, 52 cows, in a stable 90 feet long, 28 feet wide, and 7 feet 

 5 inches high. The cows have been in the stable since Octo.ber. During the summer 

 they Avere upon a farm at pasture. There Avere three openings 1 foot long and 1 foot 

 Avide, connected with Avooden tubes that extend through the roof for ventilation. 

 Glass Avindows, 2 feet by 3 feet, eA r ery alternate 6 feet along the side, afforded light. 

 This like many other of the stables, is built Avith one end on a level Avith the street 

 and the other upon a A r ery high trestle above Mill Creek, into which all urine and 

 manure is throAvn. 



George Jasper, Guest street, 30 cows, which were kept in the stable the year round. 

 No provision is made for ventilation except by the doors or Avindows, and the COAVS 

 Avere panting with the heat as in hot summer weather. Each animal has 294 cubic 

 feet space. 



B. Martins, 42 COAVS Avith similar surroundings and panting; H. Groneman, 14 cows; 

 H. Hesler, 34 cows ; B. Overberger, 21 cows and 20 hogs ; H. Kunkemoller, 26 cows ; 

 B. Evers, 49 cows, that have been in from the country since October ; H. Sanders, 44 

 -COAVS, 54 steers ; B. Hopper, 64 cows ; H. Kruse, 54 COAVS ; Nick Mey, 130 COAVS, that 

 Avere moA r ed in from the country the 1st of October. The stable is 110 feet long, 68 

 feet Avide, and 8 feet high. It is lighted by glass Avindows in the roof, in addition to 

 those upon the sides. Everything is scrupulously neat and clean. 



The folloAving dairies had been condemned by the board of health as a nuisance, 

 .and Avere to be removed in the spring. The drainage Avas into an open seAver that 

 frequently became stopped up with the otfal, and by decomposing creates a bad smell, 

 as well as malarial diseases. The stables Avere dilapidated and rotting down. From 

 the poor drainage, they were dirty and filthy. The COAVS Avere about in the same Con- 

 dition as those in other stables: J. Fischer, 46 cows; Henry Thale, 35 cows; C. 

 Geiskin, 31 cows ; A. Butterneier, 32 cows ; H. Weighiiis, 43 cows ; J. Huber, 27 cows, 

 that came in from the country November 5; Henry Steiner, 20 COAVS. 



In Barrsville I examined the folloAving dairies : D. H. Kemme has 64 cows in a sta- 

 ble 108 feet long, 31 feet Avide, and 7 feet high. There are five tubes one foot square 

 extending through the roof for A'eutilation. Pasturage near the stable is proA r idedin 

 the summer. The feed is slop, brewers' grains, and clover hay. He states that in six 

 years two COAVS only have died. He buys fresh COAVS of dealers. 



A. Austerfeld, 62 COAVS ; Geo. Heidel, 34 cows ; M. Groneman, 36 COAVS ; D. Michaeles, 

 64 cows; J. Hess, 35 cows. Of all these animals examined there was not a single 

 case of lung plague among them, nor could any evidence be found that there had been 

 at any time preA r ious. Many of these dairymen were familiar Avith lung plague, hav- 

 ing seen it in Europe, but had never been troubled Avith it since coining to this coun- 

 try. 



J. Meyers & Son, veterinary surgeons, stated that no cases had occurred in their 

 practice in this city. 



Captain Schneider, superintendent of meat andliA^e stock inspectors, stated that in his 

 inspections of the slaughter-houses and of the beef, no cases of the disease Avere ever 

 found. In company Avith him I visited a number of slaughter-houses and examined 

 the lungs of cattle killed. 



H. & H. Loeweiistein kill about 200 cattle per Aveek. According to the Jewish 

 faith, which requires that the lungs should be examined very critically, they state 

 that they never find a diseased lung in the cattle killed. The cattle come principally 

 from the States of Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. I examined the lungs of 80 cattle 



