466 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub: Doc. 



West Gardner, Mass., Sept. 8, 1900. 

 Dr. Austin Peters. 



Dear Doctor: — The heifer in quarantine died September 6, 

 the day before I arrived in Greenwich, and was buried when I got 

 there. Mr. Edson was away, but the hired man gave me a very 

 intelligent history of the outbreak. It seems that Mr. Edson and 

 Gray of Greenwich hired a pasture in Prescott of Mr. Chas. 

 Abbott, and turned in fourteen head. Edson owned seven, Gray 

 five, Ezra Alden and Chas. Manley, both of Greenwich, each 

 owned one. Four weeks ago they found three heifers dead in the 

 pasture, one each of Edson's, Aklen's and Mauley's. They had 

 evidently been dead several days ; ' ' they were buried about three 

 feet deep, at great trouble to the diggers." 



Mr. Gray immediately drove his five head into a pasture adjoin- 

 ing the Abbott pasture, where they have since remained perfectly 

 well, apparently. Mr. Edson drove his home, and turned them 

 with his milch cows in a hill-side pasture near his house, ex- 

 cepting one which he left at Mr. Felton's to have pastured. 

 About August 3 or 4 one of the heifers, about fifteen months old, 

 refused to eat. She grew very emaciated, bled at the nose, had 

 bloody diarrhoia the day before she died, which was August 18 ; 

 would seem to try to eat for a while, but could not ; also drink. 

 Buried her in a sand bank. 



The quarantined heifer was about a year old, and they first 

 noticed her August 30, when she would not eat; a considerable 

 amount of swelling around her throat, gritting of the teeth, evi- 

 dence of some pain, and the day of death bloody diarrhoea and 

 blood exuding through the skin around the head and shoulders. 

 She died September 6, and was buried in a sand bank. 



Mr. Glazier had gone to Springfield, but I waited to see him, 

 and advised him to quarantine the Edson farm and any others if they 

 should show evidence of an outbreak. I also told the Edson's to 

 use lime by working it into the earth all about the graves of each 

 animal, and Mr. Glazier said he would see that it was done. The 

 pasture being in Prescott, I suppose you will have to communicate 

 with the inspector there. It certainly appears to be the same 

 thing that is occurring in Hubbardston. 



Yours truly, A. S. Cleaves. 



Upon receiving this report, Mr. Henry N. Grover, in- 

 spector of animals for Prescott, was written to, telling him 

 to quarantine the pastures where the disease occurred. 



