408 BOAED OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



stock was all Ayrshire, and there is no history of a sick 

 animal other than due to calving. 



Outbreak :^nox aitd Stockbridge Land Co. 



Lenox Furnace, Mass., Oct. 30, 1888. 

 J. F. Winchester, D. V. S. 



Dear Sir : — In reply to yours of 27th, would say, we have killed 

 thirty-two head of cattle, all showing conclusive evidence of having 

 tuberculosis. This comprises the entire herd. The stables have stood 

 empty since some time in June, and have been thoroughly washed with 

 a solution of crude carbolic acid, and afterward whitewashed. 



On Nov. 15, 1887, eight cows and heifer Avere sent here from Palmer, 

 Mass., one of which was a mere skeleton, very weak, coughed hard 

 whenever moved, coughing up quantities of soft yellow matter. She 

 stayed with the other cattle for three weeks or more, and was then con- 

 demned by a veterinary surgeon and ordered killed. Along in March I 

 noticed several of the other cows coughing, and by the 1st of May most 

 of the cows were coughing and losing flesh rapidly, although well fed, 

 and before long not an animal was exempt. Numbers of them (eight, 

 I think) were opened by Dr. Geo. N. Kinnell of Pittsfield, and all killed 

 were slaughtered after being condemned by him. We killed twenty 

 cows, three yearling heifers, one yearling bull and eight calves. Ten 

 of the cows were five years old or over, twelve animals under two years 

 old, all but one high-grade Jersey or thoroughbred Jersey. So far as I 

 noticed, the age had little to do with the severity of the disease, as 

 calves of two or three weeks would cough quite as hard as the cows. 

 Many of them, old and young alike, got so sore from coughing that they 

 seemed to suffer greatly from each attack. The cattle were fed through 

 the winter on ensilage in morning, hay at noon, and ensilage at night. 

 Wheat middlings fed on ensilage twice per day. Were turned out to 

 water once each day, When once the disease got started with a cow, 

 she would eat everything within reach, — weeds, stubs and all, — and she 

 was constantly hungry. One cow was killed within a few days of 

 calving, and the lymphatic glands and the intestines of the calf in others 

 were plainly blotched by forming tubercles. I am not sure that I have 

 answered your questions as fully as you may desire, but will cheerfully 

 give further information at any time. 

 Yours truly, 



Henry J. Washburn, 

 Agent Lenox and Stockbridge Land Co. 



Lenox Furnace, Mass., Dec. 12, 1888. 

 J. F. Winchester, D. V. S. 



Dear Sir : — At the time of the arrival of the cows from Palmer this 

 farm had twenty cows and three yearlings on it. In former years it 

 commonly carried forty to sixty head of all ages, but owing to a change 

 of ownership in May, 1887, the number had been reduced. I was bom 



