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descendant of one of the others that were killed. The owner 

 was selling the milk as usual for the children of the neigh- 

 borhood, and he must have been aware that his course was 

 little less than criminal, as he had been told the nature of the 

 disease. He promised to have this cow killed, but he sold 

 her for fifteen dollars to a gentleman some twelve miles out 

 of the city, as a wet nurse for thoroughbred calves. The 

 doctor sent word to the gentleman of the possible results 

 if he persisted in feeding that cow's milk to calves, and 

 again recommended death. Some months after this it was 

 learned that the cow was not killed, but again sold for 

 fifteen dollars, and soon after this she began to run down 

 so fast that she was sold for the last time as a live animal for 

 fifteen dollars to a Worcester firm, to be manufactured into 

 bologna sausages. 



The doctor cites a case of a herd of thoroughbred Jer- 

 seys within seventeen miles of Worcester, where the entire 

 herd was killed and buried, and the barn thoroughly cleansed 

 and disinfected. Although he does not believe it aflects 

 every herd within a radius of ten miles of Worcester, he has 

 occasionally found it not only in the city but in almost every 

 adjoining town ; and he has no doubt but that it lurks insidi- 

 ously in many a herd, and perhaps the owners may be igno- 

 rant of the fact, but he is quite sure some know they have it 

 and keep very still. 



* Eleven otherwise disposed of. 



