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BOARD OF AGRICLTLTUKE. [Pub. Doc. 



Natick, .... Dec. 9. 



Needham, . . Dec. 8. 



North Attleborough, . Dec. 6. 



North Reading, . . Dec. 8. 



North Andover, . . Dec. 6. 



Pepperell, . . . Dec. 6. 



Quincy, .... Dec. 8. 



Revere, .... Dec. 6. 



Stow, .... Dec. 6. 



Sudbury, . . . Dec. 6. 



Southborough, 

 Sharon, . 

 Wayland, 

 Weston, . 

 Westford, 

 Westborough, 

 West Bridgewater, 

 Wellesley,* . 

 Westwood, 

 W^atertown, . 



Dec. 6. 

 Dec. 8. 

 Dec. 6. 

 Dec. 6. 

 Dec. 6. 

 Dec. 6. 

 Dec. 8. 

 Dec. 10. 

 Dec. 23. 

 Dec. 23. 



Six green cards, "Auction forbidden," etc., six white 

 cards, posters for buildings infected, etc., and forty yellow 

 cards, towns declared infected, etc., were sent to the in- 

 spector of animals in each town. 



A great deal of the trouble north-Avest of Boston has been 

 due to an auction, November 17, at which 100 head of cattle 

 were sold, and wherever they went, foot and mouth disease 

 was carried. This auction scattered it to Barre, Mass., and 

 Chester, Vt., as well as to many of the towns adjoining 

 Acton, where the auction was held. 



The towns of North Attleborough and Attleborough were 

 infected by cattle brought across the line from Rhode Island. 

 The appearance of the disease in Methuen and other towns 

 adjoining Lawrence was probably due to cattle taken to 

 Lawrence from the Brighton market. The herds which 

 were infected in Bridgewater, West Bridgewater, Quincy 

 and Braintree received cattle from droves taken from Brigh- 

 ton. How the single herd that had foot and mouth disease 

 in Danvers became contaminated it is very diihcult to say, 

 as there is no report of any other cases in that immediate 

 locality. The owner of the cattle is a market gardener, 

 and it is possible he may have taken produce to Chelsea, 

 and, when he came home, used some of the boxes which had 

 been lying around in Chelsea to feed the cows from. 



It is a difficult matter to say positively just where the 

 disease came from ; but as nearly as can be ascertained, it 

 appeared as long ago as August in the neighborhood in 

 Chelsea known as Prattsville ; and, as Chelsea is next to 

 East Boston, where the foreign shipping comes in, it is not 



* Recalled, posted later. 



