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vention of future outbreaks. While they seem to reflect strongly 

 upon the management of the United States Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, I trust that the presentation of the facts will not only 

 enlarge the present duties of these United States olficers, but call 

 the attention of your State and others to the need of more careful 

 work being done by them. Public officials often fail to do what 

 they themselves deem right, because of failure of funds and a 

 public opinion that will sustain them in their action. 

 I am, very respectfully, yours, 



Cooper Curtice, 



Veterinarian. 



The history of the source, transportation, distribution and sub- 

 sequent deaths of the cattle concerned in the outbreak in eastern 

 Massachusetts, obtained mainly through the efforts of Commis- 

 sioner Dennen, is as follows : — 



Fi7'st Carload. — Mr. E. N. Smith of Watertown, Mass., bought 

 nineteen cows in Herkimer County, New York, from five different 

 men, as follows :- 



Will Cotter, Little Falls, N. Y., 9 



A. L. Eaton, Little Falls, N. Y., 6 



V. Farrell, Newport, 1 



James Moone, Coldbrook, 2 



James Doyle, Newport, 1 



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These were shipped from Herkimer, N. Y., consigned to 

 Brighton, Mass., in a Rome & Watertown car No. 10028. They 

 arrived at West Albany stock yards on Sunday, August 1, where 

 they were unloaded to be fed and watered, and driven into pen 16, 

 alley D, for a few hours. They were then reshipped to Brighton 

 stock yards, where they arrived Monday night, August 2. They 

 were driven into pens 11 and 13, Texas alley, and thence into 

 pens 34 and 35, thence they were released and distributed to the 

 surrounding country. Thirteen head out of the nineteen thus 

 handled died soon after. One cow died on August 11, one on 

 August 12, three about August 14, one on August 17, and one on 

 August 20. 



Second Carload. — Mr. Geo. N. Smith of Watertown, Mass., 

 bought seventeen cows and one bull in Jefferson County, New 

 York, from thirteen farmers, as follows : — 



