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weeks. He stated that she still couched once ill a while for a few 

 minutes at a time, as if she were choked. Charles Rockwell stated to 

 .Ur> TrnmbOwer that his visit to treat the cow Patalene was on the 10th 

 of May. He knew this from an entry in his book, but he fails to re- 

 member anything about her having been overfed. He stated that she 

 had a very bad cough, and he diagnosed the disease as influenza. She 

 recovered in about four days. Soon after that she was turned into Mr. 

 Morrison's field to pasture. On the 10th of Jane a roan Short-horn cow- 

 belonging to Mr. Bawlings was taken sick in the field, and Mr. Rock- 

 well treated her. He could not tell positively what ailed her, but she 

 did not cough as bad as the Jersey cow. He treated her for a month in 

 the stable of liawlings, and accepted her in pay for the treatment. Mr. 

 Rawlings said (bat she coughed very badly, and it seemed to hurt her 

 very much. He thought she was taken sick ten days or two weeks 

 after the illness of the Jersey. Mr. Rockwell turned this cow into the 

 Morrison pasture for a while, and then took her to his own barn and 

 kept her there until August 7, and she was killed for beef a few days 

 later. Mr. Morrison had two cows in this pasture. One of them be- 

 gan to cough, and Thomas Scott was called to treat her on the 19th of 

 June. She was sick and weak, though eating all the time, and thin 

 looking ; she protruded her tongue while coughing. Dr. Tiffany treated 

 two cows in the adjoining field, which, he states, were affected with 

 simple catarrhal fever. They recovered in a few days. Dr. Trum- 

 bower examined Patalene and a cow belonging to Mr. Morrison on the 

 18th of September, but failed to find any evidence of disease at that time. 

 The cows Julia May and Jane Stoughton were sold to J. B. Warlow, of 

 Danvers, 111. He took them home a few days after the sale. Julia 

 May was thin and looked bad when he bought her. She had a cough 

 when she reached his place. In the month of June her cough became 

 more frequent, and she lost llesh and strength ; her breathing was very 

 difficult, and she died on the 10th of July. They made a post-mortem 

 examination and found one lung attached to the ribs and the covering 

 coated with a "scuin." This lung was double the weight of the other. 

 In cutting across the solidified portion it had a marbled appearance. 

 Jane Stoughton has never been sick nor eveu coughed. The cow Eva 

 B. was sold to William Hanna, of Golden, 111., who received her on the 

 23d of February. She coughed occasionally at that time, but no atten- 

 tion was paid to it. About one month after the purchase she became 

 sick, refused to eat, and appeared dull and stupid. This continued for 

 several days ; she then aborted, and eight or ten days later appeared 

 to be well again, with the exception of an occasional cough. She was 

 examined by Dr. Trumbower in the latter part of September, and at 

 that time presented no evidences of disease. 



W. F. Whitson & Son purchased at the Epler sale the cow Pansy 

 Lassie and the bull Andrew. I learned from Mr. Epler and others that 

 Pansy Lassie had an attack of what was supposed to be pneumonia 

 soon after she was received at Virginia. She was treated for this dis- 

 ease, and at the time of the sale was much improved, though the state- 

 ment was made that she had recently been sick, and she was not sold 

 as a perfectly healthy cow. Mr. Whitson did not understand that she 

 had been sick with lung fever, and though she was thin in flesh he 

 did not suspect any previous disease. Examined September 17 by Dr. 

 Trumbower, she presented the most positive evidences of chronic pleuro- 

 pneumonia. There was very extensive and probably complete hepatiza- 

 tion of the left lung; only a very small amount of air entered the larger 

 bronchi in the upper part of the lung and produced- a whistling, blow- 



