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ing sound at each expiration. The right side showed no marked symp- 

 toms of disease. This cow coughed every ten minutes or oftener when 

 she was made to move. The cough was suppressed and shallow, and 

 apparently accompanied by more or less pain. The bull Andrew ap- 

 peared to be all right, but two or three other animals in the herd 

 were beginning to cough. William Bell, of Miami, Mo., purchased 

 eighteen head of cattle at the Epler sale. One of these, Zadie, was 

 taken sick about the 12th of May and for ten days ate very little and 

 had a cough. She was isolated, and after calving began to improve 

 and was turned in with the other cattle. This herd was examined Aug- 

 ust 27 by Dr. Trumbower, when all the animals were found in fine con- 

 dition, with no signs of pleuro-pneumonia in any. This completes the 

 list of animals sold at the Epler sale, which our investigations show to 

 have afterwards been affected with a disease having symptoms resem- 

 bling those of contagious pleuro-pneumonia. 



As very many of the cattle sold at the Epler sale soon afterwards 

 became affected with pleuro-pneumonia, and as the mingling of the ani- 

 mals at this sale was the only means by which many of these herds 

 could be connected, it became very certain that the disease in Illinois 

 had been brought to that State with some animals that had been sent 

 to Mr. Epler. The animals which he had collected for this sale had 

 come from a number of different herds located at widely separated 

 points. An investigation of the condition of these herds led us to 

 believe that onlv one had been affected with pleuro-pneumonia. This 

 herd belonged to Mr. 0. E. C. Dye, of Troy, Ohio. On the 28th of 

 December, 1883, Mr. Epler purchased five cows of Mr. Dye. The ani- 

 mals were shipped soon after, and arrived at Virginia January 4, 1884. 

 These cows were Mollie of Mapledale and Jennie of Mapledale, both of 

 which came from the herd of James Lyman, of Downer's Grove, EL, in 

 May, 1883 ; Fancy Le Brocq, which was bought at Kellogg's sale in No- 

 vember, 1883, and had come from the herd of D. A. Givens, of Cynthiana, 

 Ky.j Albert's Pansy, from the herd of George V. Green, of Hopkins- 

 ville, in November, 1882 — this cow had not been on Mr. Dye's farm 

 since her purchase; Pansy Lassie had been purchased of John E. Ham- 

 ilton, in November, 1882. 



Mr. Dye informed me that he was in Europe at the time the disease 

 broke out among his cattle. The first animal attacked was Eayon 

 d'Or, a bull, which had not been away from his place since October, 

 1883. This animal showed the first symptoms some time in February, 

 and died in March. A number of cattle in his herd were affected and 

 some were killed, but he undoubtedly had two different diseases in his 

 herd at the same time — a severe sore throat and pleuro pneumonia — 

 and it is now a difficult matter to determine which of the animals were 

 affected with the sore throat and which had this in connection with 

 the lung disease. Three calves were killed which Mr. Dye thought 

 were only affected with the sore throat trouble, but Dr. Butler, who 

 attended his cattle at that time, thought they also had lung disease. 

 When I was at the farm I saw one of the animals affected with the 

 disease of the throat, which was suffering very severely, but which 

 had no signs of disease in the lungs. I feel confident, therefore, that 

 Mr. Dye is correct in stating that some of his cattle were affected with 

 disease of the throat only, but this makes it difficult at the present time 

 to decide just how many cases of pleuro pneumonia occurred in his herd. 

 He lost, altogether, four animals which died and three which were killed 

 previous to my visit. As soon as this trouble was discovered among his 

 animals all sales were stopped, the sick animals were put by themselves 



