The Lung Plague of Cattle. 



died of Lung Plague since its introduction, 39 head per- 

 ished in 1868, and 16 in 1869 up to the date of report, 



More recently illustrations of the existence of the dis- 

 ease in these States have been frequent, and among com- 

 paratively recent cases the author has been consulted 

 concerning a high class Jersey herd near Burlington, 

 N. J., in 1877, and a herd of imported Ayrshires in Staten 

 Island, later in the same year. 



In 1878 the town of Clinton, N. J., was invaded, the 

 infection coming through a cow that had staid for some 

 days in New York city. This was alleged to be an Ohio 

 cow, but had staid long enough in New York to have 

 contracted the affection. 



In 1847 Ayrshire cattle taken from Scotland to Den- 

 mark conveyed the plague into that country. The in- 

 fected cattle were, however, at once placed in quarantine 

 and the spread of the malady was prevented. Mr. E. 

 Penger, whom I met at Edinburgh in 1862, stated that 

 there had been but three dairies attacked, all by reason 

 of infected cattle imported, and that all had been crush- 

 ed out so that for three years the kingdom had been free 

 from the disease. 



Schleswig-Holstein has repeatedly imported the plague 

 by the introduction of foreign cattle, but has invariably 

 stamped it out by quarantining the infected places and 

 destroying the sick cattle. One of these importations 

 consisted of Ayrshire cattle brought from Scotland in 1859, 

 A still more serious invasion took place on the occasion 

 of the late Prusso-Danish war ; the commissariat parks 

 of the invading army having been supplied from infected 

 districts carried the plague wherever they went, but true 

 to her record, on the return of peace, the province went 

 vigorously to work, drove out the pestilence, and foi 

 years past has been free from the infection. 



In 1860 Norway was infected by a cargo of Ayrshire 

 sattle, imported for the Agricultural College at Aas. The 



