Lung Plague in the Atlantic States. 1 



An importation into New Jersey in 1847 is recorded, 

 to check wliich the importer, Mr. Bichardson, is said to 

 to have slaughtered his whole herd, valued at $10,000, 

 for the good of the State. Unfortunately all New Jersey 

 men were not so public-spirited, and subsequent impor- 

 tations from New York and mayhap also from Europe 

 have since spread this pestilence widely over the State. 



From New Jersey it spread to Pennsylvania and Dela- 

 ware, and thence to Maryland, District of Columbia and 

 Virginia, in all of which it still prevails 



Ofthe progress of the disease southward from New 

 York the records are somewhat imperfect, yet sufficient 

 to show a steady advance. Eobert Jennings records its 

 existence in Camden and Gloucester Counties, N. J., in 

 1859, and its introduction into Philadelphia in 1860. It 

 spread to " The Neck " in the southern part of the coun- 

 ty, killing from 30 to 50 per cent, of infected herds, and 

 spread in 1861 into Delaware, and into Burlington Co., 

 N. J. In 1868 Mr. Martin Goldsborough assured Pro- 

 fessor Gamgee of the extensive prevalence of the disease 

 in Maryland, infection having been introduced by cattle 

 from the Philadelphia market. The professor personally 

 traced the disease in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mary- 

 land, District of Columbia, and Virginia, and makes the 

 following assertions : 



" That the Lung Plague in cattle exists on Long Isl- 

 and, where it has prevailed for many years ; that it is 

 not uncommon in New Jersey ; has at various times ex- 

 isted in New York State ; continues to be very prevalen 

 in several counties of Pennsylvania, especially in Dela 

 ware and Bucks ; has injured the farmers of Maryland, 

 the dairymen around Washington, D. C, and has pene- 

 trated into Virginia." 



He adds a table compiled by Mr. G. Beid, Ingleside 

 Farm, Washington, D. C, and showing that in an average 

 of 471 cows kept in Washington and vicinity, 198 had 



