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or suspected of the same, or which may come from such infected 

 or suspected districts," 



Doct. McFarland visited Massachusetts, and after diligent 

 research, made a very interesting report of the results of his 

 mission, a published copy of which has been received by this 

 Board. 



The Governor of ]\raine, on the 28th of May, appointed 

 Messrs. S. L. Goodale, Secretary of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, Poet. Amos Nourse, and Doct. E. Holmes, commissioners 

 to visit this State. These gentlemen wei'e present at the extra 

 session of the legislature ; and after making personal observa- 

 tions of the mode of procedure adopted by your Commissioners, 

 made an able report of their doings to the governor of Maine, 

 a printed copy of which is in the hands of this commission. 



The attention of the legislature of Connecticut was called to 

 this subject, during the month of May. The prevalence of the 

 disease on the very confines of that State, rendered some efficient 

 action necessary ; and a board of commissioners, consisting of 

 Messrs. Charles Matthewson, Lonzo M. , Smith, and John L. 

 Stewart, were appointed under authority of the legislature. 

 These gentlemen visited this Commonwealth, some of them 

 several times, and took a deep interest in all matters connected 

 with the extirpation of the disease. Governor Buckingham, of 

 that State, was present at post mortem examinations, made 

 under the direction of your Commissioners, on the 2Gth of 

 June last. 



A visit was also made by the Secretary of the New York 

 State Agricultural Society, B. P. Johnson, Esq., and by other 

 gentlemen of that State, interested in agriculture. 



Delegations also from Pennsylvania and Indiana visited Mas- 

 sachusetts for information in regard to the disease in question. 



The executive committee of the New Jersey State Agricul- 

 tural Society met on the 5th of June last, and after a discussion 

 of the subject, [pleuro-pneumonia,] appointed a committee, 

 two of whom, N. N. Halstead, president of the society, and 

 Mr. Benjamin Haines, visited Boston in company with Doctors 

 J. M. Ward and G. Grant, of Newark. The latter gentlemen 

 acted as medical commissioners, and on their return submitted 

 a re[)ort, from which, as it contains many very important facts 

 in relation to the disease as those gentlemen believe it exists or 



