SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



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The following concise statement will sufficiently explain the 

 diagram and exhibit the main features in the progress of the 

 disease in this State during the past year. 



In March, 1861, Mr. J. F. Eaton purchased a yoke of cattle 

 of a person at Brighton who had the same day bought them of 

 a driver from North Hampton, N. H., named Jonathan Phil- 

 brick. A gentleman in search of a pair of oxen had previously 

 declined to take these on account of their unhealthy appear- 

 ance. Soon after Mr. Eaton had put these cattle to work on 

 his farm one became sick, then the other, then a bull stalled 

 next to the oxen. All of these died of a loathsome disease. 

 Very soon his cows, one after another, were attacked. Several 

 died and some were killed to put them out of misery. Those 

 that apparently recovered were afterwards found to have the 



