200 REPORT OP THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



received cattle from him. It seemed probable that among the grade 

 Jerseys t here was one which had recovered from the acute stage of 

 pleuro pneumonia, and which, while appearing healthy, was still able 

 to communicate the disease, as we know is the case with so many of 

 the animals which make an apparent recovery from pleuro-pneumonia. 

 Mr. Dye has only sold a very few animals since the time when the infec- 

 tion was probably introduced among his cattle. With a single excep- 

 tion, I have been unable to find that animals from his herd had car- 

 ried the disease to other places besides the heid of Mr. E pier. This 

 exception was a lot of three Jerseys sold by Dye to C. N. Mitchell, of 

 Dayton, Ohio, and delivered about February 18, 1884. The introduc- 

 tion of these animals into Mr. Mitchell's herd has been followed b} r an 

 outbreak of contagious pleuro-pneumonia, and he has lost seven ani- 

 mals from the disease. Au inspectiou of his herd on September 4 

 showed that five additional animals had been affected, and still showed 

 very evident symptoms. September 20 I examined two other cows 

 belonging to Mr. Mitchell, one of which, an unregistered animal, had a 

 slight crepitation and blowing sound in the right lung. It was my 

 judgment that she had suffered from a mild attack of pleuro-pueumonia, 

 and he informed me that she had been sent to his farm a month or 

 more previous to be bred to his bull. She had been there but a few 

 days when she was brought back to another farm several miles distant. 

 The following is a list of the animals which died in his herd, with date 

 of death : Doe's Blucher, April 27 ; Donna Daisy, May 1 ; Vivianetta, 

 May 6 ; Bapier's Melville, May 28 ; one, name not known, died May 31 ; 

 one, name not known, died June 2. 



At the first examination of Mr. Clarke's herd we were informed that 

 he had shipped eleven head of cattle in June to H. D. Frisbie, of Cyn- 

 thiana, Ky., and that on August 9 nine other animals were shipped to 

 the same party. When it became certain that Mr. Clarke's herd had 

 been suffering from pleuro-pneumonia, I telegraphed to the honorable 

 Proctor Knott, governor of Kentucky, under date of August 1, that H. 

 D. Frisbie, of Cynthiana, Ky., had recently purchased twenty head of 

 cattle from Clarke's herd at Geneva, 111., stating that this herd was un- 

 doubtedly affected at that time with contagious pleuro pneumonia, and 

 that I had ordered a veterinarian to examine Frisbie's herd. In view 

 of the enormous live-stock interests of the State, I recommended the 

 prohibition of all movement of cattle from Frisbie's herd until after an 

 examination of their condition was made. Owing to the fact that the first 

 veterinarian asked to make this examination was unable to leave his 

 practice, the examination of this herd was not made until August 29 

 and 30. At that time Dr. Trumbower made a careful examination of 

 all animals which had been purchased from Clarke, and a number of 

 others in the herd, and reported to me their condition under date of 

 August 30. He was told by Messrs. Frisbie & Lake, who owned the 

 herd of cattle, that they had purchased only fifteen head from Mr. 

 Clarke, instead of twenty, as we had been previously informed. As 

 there has since been a question in regard to the conclusions reached by 

 Dr. Trumbower at the time of his examination, and especially in regard 

 to information which he communicated to Messrs. Frisbie & Lake, I make 

 the following summary of his report, which was written at Cynthiana the 

 day the examination was made, and before any controversy had arisen, 

 and consequently at a time when there could have been no reason whatever 

 for stating anything but the exact truth. There were six calves, as fol- 

 lows : Nora Lawrence, 1 emperature ou August 30, 102.6° F., respira- 

 tory murmur entirely absent in left lung and complete consolidatiou 



