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THE ILI.INOIS FA.KMER. 



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We may now safely clial- 

 flenge any part of tlie world 

 for fine stock, and it would 

 not surprise us to see anounco- 

 mcnts of the purchase here of 

 choice stock for the English 

 farms. The genial climate 

 and rich feed of the prairie 

 tends to the full development 

 of the hovine race, and 

 hreeders must sooner or later 

 look here for the best animals. 

 Col. Wentworth can accom- 

 modate them. Now that the 

 cattle disease has put an em- 

 bargo on importations, we 

 hope to see a little justice 

 done to our home breeders, 

 who have invested so largely 

 in choice stock. 



SHORT HORN DURHAM COW ADELAIDE. 



The English Herd Book, volume XT, describes her as bred by Hon. Adam Ferguson, Woodhill, Canada "West, red roan 

 and calved 20th April, 1850. 



She was got by the celebrated prize bull Ilalton (11,552,) out of Lady Elgin by Symmetry (12,170,) Flora by Wellington 

 (13,987,) Victoria by Agricola (1,G14,) l^eauty by Snowball (2,647,)— by Lansleeves (365,)— by Charles (127.) 



She was bought by lion. John Wentworth for the Illinois Breeding Association at Summit, Cook county, Illinois. 



high esteem, aa they contain too much 

 machinery altogether. Most of the 

 Phelps* hives have the same fault, but 

 this single hive, with the movable 

 frame, is so simple that it is not liable 

 to the above charge. We would advise 

 bee keepers to give them a trial. 



[From the Boston Journal, May 19tb.] 



The Cattle Disease. 



Conference of the Commissioners and a Committee of the 

 Hoard ofAgricultnre — The Infected Dixtrir.t xurround- 

 ed by a cordon saiiitairu — I'leuro-J^xieinaoiua Meeting 

 «/* ^\ orthampton. 



A Committee of the State Board of 

 Agriculture, consisting of Professor 

 William S. Clarke, of Amherst ; John 

 Brooks, Esq., of Princeton, and Bev. 

 Charles C. Sewall, of Mctl field, who 

 were appointed at the late meeting of 

 the Board in this city to confer with the 

 Commissioners on the extirpation of 

 the cattle disease, visited North Brook - 

 field on Thursday evening and after a 

 protracted conference agreed upon apian 

 of operations which will be made public 

 at an early day. 



The committee returned to this city 

 to-day to lay the result of the consulta- 

 tion before the Governor. In the mean- 

 time the Commissioners, who more than 

 ever require the moral support of the 

 community against the opposition which 

 is arrayed against them, from certain 

 sources, are laboring to the full extent 

 of their authority to concentrate the 

 disease. 



SPKKAD OF THE CONTAOIOX. 



The sanguine expectation of the com- 



missioners, that the disease had been 

 circumscribed, have been dissipated hj 

 reports of its appearance in different 

 I sections of the State. A letter address- 

 i ed to the commissioners by Mr. Andrew 

 j Wellington, of East Lexington, Mass., 

 states that on the 11th of April he sold 

 a load of hay to Mr. Winthrop Chenery, 

 of Belmont, where the disease first ap- 

 peared, and that a yoke of oxen from 

 the infected herd of Mr. Chenery were 

 driven to ISIr. Wellington's barn to get 

 the hay ; that while there the oxen stood 

 some time beside a cow in the barn, 

 j which cow has been sick, but is now ap- 

 I parently well. Messrs. Sewall and 

 i Brooks, of the Committee of the Board 

 I of Agriculture, visited East Lexington, 

 yesterday, with authority, delegated by 

 the Commissioners, to inquire into the 

 case, and if necessary to kill and ex- 

 amine the diseased animal. They were 

 accompanied by Doctors Thayer and 

 Bates, Avho did not consider the case one 

 of pleuro-pncumonia. Two heifers be- 

 longing to Mr. Wellington, after being 

 exposed, have been sent to Ilillsboro', 

 N. II. Mr. Wellington has been en- 

 joined to keep his cattle isolated from 

 others for three weeks, at the end of 

 which time the Commisiiioners will visit 

 him again. 



The case reported as having appeared 

 in Sandwich, is, according to the testi- 

 mony of Dr. Jonathan Leonard of tliat 

 town, clearly one of pleuro-pncumonia. 

 On the t>th inst., William F. Bicknell 

 purchased of Orrin Hill, at Brighton, 



four oxen, one of which, on Friday last, 

 showed symptoms of the prevailing dis- 

 ease. The ox died on Sunday, and on 

 being opened, the lung and plura on the 

 left side were found to be extremely in- 

 flamed, and the cavity of the chest con- 

 tained a large quantity of serum. Judge 

 Mattoon, of Barnstable, has already 

 commenced an investigation of the case, 

 and to-morrow Messrs. Brooks and Se- 

 wall, in company with a competent 

 veterinary surgeon, will proceed to Sand- 

 wich to examine the matter. 



It is not improbable that some unscru- 

 pulous person having diseased cattle may 

 have secretly conveyed them to Brighton 

 market. There are grounds for appre- 

 hending this, from the fact that in North 

 Brookfield, recently, an Irishman went 

 at break of day to a farmer, one-half of 

 whose herd had died of the disease, and 

 inquired the price of his best cows. 

 The farmer, an honest, staaightforward 

 man, told him that considering the dis- 

 ease which prevailed among them, he 

 might have his choice for forty dollars. 

 The Irishman reflected and agreed to 

 take two. The farmer then asked him 

 what he was going to do with them ; 

 whereupon the man said he was going to 

 drive them to Spencer. "But the people 

 will not allow you to drive them there,'' 

 said the farmer. ♦' I know that,'' re- 

 })lied the unscrupulous purchaser, '* but 

 I shall drive them in the night time." 

 This opened the eyes of the farmer to 

 the dishonesty of his customer, and he 

 rebuked him saying, "I have got all I 



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