1 6 The Lwng Plague of Cattle. 



after purchase of the four, of 104 animals, and honorably 

 declined to sell the survivors at high prices to his unsus- 

 pecting neighbors, but sold a number at half price to a 

 Brooklyn milkman, who already had the disease in his 

 herd, and knew all the circumstances. 



(c) Twelve years ago (1867) Lawrence Ansert, Broad-' 

 way and Eidge st., Astoria, bought of a dealer two cows 

 which soon after sickened and died, and infected the re- 

 mainder of his herd of 18. Eight of them died of the 

 disease, and he fattened and killed the remaining ten, 

 and began anew with fresh premises and stock. He has 

 lost none since. 



(/) The next case, like the last, affords a most instruct- 

 ive contrast to the first two, as showing how the disease 

 may be permanently eradicated by proper seclusion. In 

 1872, Frank Devine, of Old Farm House Hotel, West 

 Chester, purchased from a dealer a cow which soon sick- 

 ened and died. The disease extended to the rest of his 

 herd, and in seven months he lost thirty-six cows He 

 appreciated the danger of contagion, and began again 

 with new stock, keeping them rigidly apart from the in- 

 fected beasts and premises, and from that time onward 

 avoided all dealers and bred his own stock, with the 

 happy result that in the last six years he has not had a 

 single case of lung fever in his herd. 



These are but examples of what has been happening 

 all over the infected district for the last thirty-six 

 years. 



2. Has the Affection become less virulent in America ? 



The above mentioned cases may be referred to as a 

 partial answer to this question, yet it will be more satis- 

 factory to adduce some more recent cases as showing that 

 the lapse of time has not modified the virulence of the 

 contagion. 



(a) The Bliss-\ille distillery stables are alleged to have 

 contained 800 to 900 cattle when visited late in January, 



