1-iO BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



health. Ascertain by circulars and by posting up notices in 

 every post-office, where the disease has got a footing in the 

 State, and circumscribe it. It can easily be gotten rid of now, 

 by a little timely effort, and we shall be saved from great 

 trouble for many years to come. 



I have said that it is not very fatal. Sometimos it has proved 

 fatal, but those were exceptional cases. But the English dairy 

 farmer says he would rather have the contagious plcuro-pneu- 

 monia than this disease, it proves so troublesome, and is a source 

 of so much loss to him. 



Mr. Morton, of Hadley. We have a disease in our town 

 that was brought by a drove of cows tliat came from Connec- 

 ticut. All those who purchased out of the drove have the 

 disease among their cattle. Professor Law has described it 

 exactly. On the first appearance of the disease they begin to 

 drool, they will not eait their hay or meal, their tongues swell, 

 and in the course of a day or two some will not or cannot eat 

 at all. Give them good sweet hay, they will take a mouthful, 

 roll it round awhile and then throw it out, and reject their 

 meal entirely. None have died, but one or two have l)een so 

 sick that a great many supposed that they had been poisoned.. 



One of our townsmen had some twenty-five steers out to 

 pasture ; he went after them, and on his way home happened to 

 overtake this drove of cattle. They did not mix at all, but his 

 steers took the disease. 



There are five or six herds in Hadley that have this disease 

 now, and nobody seems to know what the remedy is. Some 

 have used potatoes and salt ; they salt very freely and swab out 

 their mouths, and some of them have got well to all appearance, 

 so that they cat their hay well. If there is any remedy I should 

 like to know it. 



Professor Law. The treatment is extremely simple. The 

 disease will follow its own course. When it makes its appear- 

 ance in an animal, the great point is to keep the parts clean, 

 and allow him to go through it. It is like the small or cow pox, 

 it follows its course and then subsides. What you want to do 

 is to wash out the mouth with some cooling lotion or tincture. 

 A wash of carbolic acid to one hundred and fifty parts water 

 will answer the purpose. Wash the teats with one part carbolic 

 acid and one hundred parts water, and apply strong carbolic 



