224 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The Chairman. There is a little time for the discussion 

 of this very important subject. If gentlemen have questions 

 to ask the doctor, now is their best opportunity. 



Mr. Hazen. I would like to ask the speaker if it is not 

 only possible, but very probable, that we have many cases 

 of tubercular disease that are pleuro-pueumonia? 



Dr. Peters. Tuberculosis is of the nature of consump- 

 tion. Tuberculous consumption is the same as tuberculosis. 

 We call it " consumption " because the person wastes away. 

 But the contagious pleuro-pneumonia is a distinct disease 

 from tuberculosis. 



Mr. Hazen. Is not contagious tuberculosis often taken 

 for the contagious pleuro-pneumonia? 



Dr. Peters. It is, sometimes. 



Mr. Hazen. Has it not been so taken in Vermont the 

 past year, to a great extent? 



Dr. Peters. Up in Vermont they had a sort of an epi- 

 demic of pneumonia among the young stock this last summer. 

 That was not the contagious pleuro-pneumonia ; it was not 

 tuberculosis ; it was just like ordinary lung fever, only it 

 existed among quite a number of young cattle. I know they 

 had it in Vermont and in New Hampshire. At the request 

 of the Vermont and New Hampshire Cattle Commissioners I 

 visited those States last summer to investigate the outbreaks 

 of this disease, which they were afraid might be the conta- 

 gious pleuro-pneumonia, though it was not. It was this 

 epidemic pneumonia among young cattle. 



Question. What would be the symptoms of that disease ? 



Dr. Peters. The animals are feverish, breathe fast, are 

 dull and stupid, and generally isolate themselves from the 

 well cattle, — go off in one corner of the pasture by them- 

 selves and remain there. I do not know that any treatment 

 was adopted last summer. They only noticed that the cattle 

 were sick and they either died or got well. Some got well 

 and some died. 



Question. The trouble was in the lungs ? 



Dr. Peters. The trouble was in the lungs. 



Question. What would be the condition of the lungs? 



Dr. Peters. The lungs were congested. If you opened 

 an animal the lungs, if they were not firm and normal, would 



