18 The Lung Plague of Cattle. 



(e) Mrs. Kelly, Hazleton, Jamaica, L. I., bought a cow 

 from a Williamsburglx dealer named Brown, in the latter 

 part of 1878. This cow sickened and died, and fatally 

 infected the remaining three cows of her herd, so that 

 she is now without any, and has resigned the milk busi- 

 ness. 



(/) Mr. Wheelock, Eoslyn, L. I., late in 1878 bought 

 two cows from a New York dealer. They sickened soon 

 after, infected the rest of his herd, and six were lost be- 

 fore the plague could be stayed. 



(gr) Mr. Kenyon-, Eoslyn, was so satisfied it was not the 

 lung fever that he purchased two of Mr. W.'s cows. One 

 of these sickened and died, and infected several others 

 of his herd, one of which had to be destroyed by order of 

 the State authorities. 



Qi) Mr. Gilbert Miller, Oantito, Westchester Co., in 

 July, 1878, took in a Jersey cow sent from Motthaven as 

 a present to his son-in-law. Three months later his herd 

 was generally infected, and the Jersey cow and two 

 others died. 



{i) The herd of M.'s sister-in-law, Mrs. Robertson, 

 which was kept across the street, sickened in October, 

 and, up to the time of my visit, early in March, five out 

 of twelve had died. 



{j ) Mr. Collins, of 50th street. New York, had a Jersey 

 cow which suffered, in August, 1878, from some disease 

 of the lungs that was denied to be the lung fever by the 

 veteriaarian who attended her. On September 20 th her 

 calf was sent to Solomon Mead, Greenwich, Conn., who 

 had agreed to keep it two years. The calf died two 

 weeks after arrival, and infected ten of his herd, five of 

 wliich had died, and five were recovering at the period of 

 my visit (March 21). The herd at that time numbered 

 thirteen. 



ijc) Mr. Griffin, Greenwich, Conn., occupied a farm 

 alongside Mr. Mead's, and had his herd infected by a 



