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This description fails to convey to the mind of the Examining 

 Board any definite idea of disease. This cow went from Curtis 

 Stoddard's November 2d, 1859, and had no other known 

 exposure than in his herd. 



The one sold to Shay is now alive and considered well. 



The one sold to Pollard was killed by the Commissioners in 

 April or May, and pronounced diseased by Dr. Dadd, but no 

 description was given. The herd is well now. . The one sold 

 to Cummings was killed and examined by Dr. Martin, on April 

 12th, and pronounced free from pleuro-pneumonia. 



Of the two animals sold to Tucker, one is alive and considered 

 well, the other was killed and examined by Dr. Dadd, but the 

 following indefinite record is all that can be obtained. (^Ati- 

 topsij 30.) " Found in a state of general disease. One lung 

 in the acute, the other in the chronic stage." Of course no 

 conclusion can be drawn from such statements. 



The one sold to Murphy was killed on May 10th, and accord- 

 ing to Dr. Dadd, (^Autopsy ol,^ "proved to be badly diseased;" 

 with what is not stated. 



The one which passed from Tucker through Richards to 

 Boweu, of Sturbridge, was also killed on May 9th, and pro- 

 nounced (^Autopsy 32) " diseased," by Dadd, but no description 

 is given. 



Silas H. Big-eloiv^s Herd. 



Mr. Bigelow's oxen were kept near C. P. Huntington's barn. 

 Huntington's cattle passed Mr. Bigelow's premises, and Mr. 

 Bigelow's oxen passed Leonard Stoddard's diseased oxen in the 

 road. 



This herd was killed and one ox and one cow examined post 

 mortem. 



The ox, ten years old, had been ill two weeks with " cough, 

 loss of appetite, sore eyes and weakness." 



Autopsy 33. — The examination showed the left lung firmly adherent 

 to the costal pleura. It weighed twenty-three pounds and " was a mass 

 of tubercular matter." The right lung adhered to the diaphragm. — Dr. 

 Tylek, April 28. 



Autopsy 34. — Cow 11 years old. The right lung adhered to the 

 costal pleura at the sixth i-ib. The recoi'd appears to show that a large 

 portion of the right lung, weighing a pound and a half, was enclosed in 

 a sac, and found on incision to be '"marbled." — Drs. Ttleu and Dadd, 

 April 30. 



