No. 4.] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 291) 



Friday morning, March 6, Mr. C. A. Dennen, the agent of 

 the Cattle Bureau in charge of the stock yards at Brighton, 

 Watertownand Somerville, telephoned the Chief of the Cattle 

 Bureau that some cheap beef cattle had just arrived from 

 Bedford, N. H., Avhich api)eared to be ailing, and that he 

 was holding them in the })en into which they had been un- 

 loaded at the Watertown yards, and he had also forbidden 

 moving the car from the siding on Avhich it stood, and asking 

 the Chief to come over as so(m as possible. Mr. Dennen 

 was instructed to telephone Dr. Bunker of Newton to come 

 at once, and the Chief also drove over inunediately. 



The cattle consisted of a lot of eight cows, a yoke of steers 

 and a bull, shipped by E. R. French of Bedford, N. H., and 

 consigned to J. J. Kelly at the Brighton Abattoir. Several 

 of the animals u})on examination showed evidences of having 

 had foot and mouth disease recently, some of the cases were 

 evidently of not over two Aveeks' standing, and some may 

 have dated back a month. 



The United States authorities were notified at once, and 

 the animals were immediately killed in the pen where they 

 were and removed by a renderer, and the pen, as well as the 

 car in which they came, disinfected by the officials of the 

 United States Bureau of Animal Industry. 



The following day an order was issued by the United 

 States Secretary of Agriculture, declaring New Hampshire 

 to be quarantined, and forbidding the transportation of any 

 neat cattle, sheep, other ruminants or swine from or across 

 that State. 



An investigation by the oiBcials of the United States Bu- 

 reau of Animal Industry showed a somewhat extensive out- 

 break of foot and mouth disease in the towns of Bedford, 

 New Boston, Weare, Henniker, Dunbarton, Gofistown, 

 Hookset, Ilemstead and the city of Manchester, which had 

 evidently been in existence for some months. Early in the 

 winter foot and mouth disease had been found in three or 

 four herds in Salem, Hudson and Hancock, N. H., but these 

 had been killed and the buildings disinfected, and the State 

 was supposed to be free from the disease ; and permits had 

 been given by the Chief of the Cattle Bureau to bring cattle 



