78 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



All animal belonging to Peter Paranteau was killed and 

 " pronounced much diseased." Those which were spared, six 

 ill iiiunl)cr, are now alive and well. 



A cow belonging to Warren S. Wood, of Brookfield, was 

 killed, and "hepatization and general disease" found. The 

 herd of ten head is alive and well now. 



An animal belonging to Moses Pollard, of New Braintree, 

 was killed and " pronounced diseased." The herd of fifty- 

 three head is alive and well now. 



In these eight herds therefore, left unslaughtered, there are 

 alive and well now, 195 head. In every herd was found an 

 animal 'reported diseased, as will be seen by the records quoted 

 verbatim. 



There were from twenty to thirty herds slaughtered, an animal 

 in each having j)reviously been killed and pronounced diseased 

 by the medical and veterinary gentlemen employed at the time. 

 The appearances, according to the records, were of the same 

 general character as those found in the eight herds left un- 

 slaughtered. 



So far, therefore, as the post mortem appearances are con- 

 cerned, we have good reason to suppose that if these twenty 

 to thirty herds, containing more than 400 head of cattle had 

 been spared, they would all have Ijecn alive an^ well now ; 

 for we luive already seen, that other herds, equally suspicious, 

 never showed any sign of disease. 



Inasmuch as no instance of severe disease or a single death 

 has occurred outside of some eight or ten herds, we are irre- 

 sistibly forced to the conclusion that the disease was limited 

 to these herds. 



Mr. Chenery says that fifty or sixty head of cattle were kept 

 in the pastures adjoining his during the season of 1859, when 

 tlie mortality was greatest among his animals, and yet none took 

 the disease. But he also says that his sick animals were usually 

 kept in the barn, and when let out rarely Aveiit far from the 

 barn door. 



This being the last fact in our possession against contagion, 

 we will recapitulate the evidence on this side. 



1. Tlicre is no clear evidence that any of Curtis Stoddard's 

 animals took the disease of the sick Chenery calf. 



