90 FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN AMERICA. 
tained to have appeared in Oneida county, in this State, 
before the first of October. There it seems to have as yet 
made no serious trouble, and not to have been much diffused. 
The reason of this may very probably be that almost all 
farmers are selling stock on account of the short hay crop, 
and not therefore bringing new stock to their farms. 
“ About the end of last month paragraphs appeared in the 
newspapers concerning the outbreak of an alarming cattle 
disease in the neighbourhood of Pawling, in Duchess county ; 
and upon the matter being taken in hand by Dr. Moreau 
Morris, one of the State Cattle Commissioners, the disease 
vaguely and ‘ignorantly described in the newspaper para- 
graphs was ascertained to be the foot-and-mouth disease 
of Europe. The able and efficient assistant commissioner in 
charge of the district (Dr. de Salt Guernsey, of Arnenia), at 
once instituted measures to prevent its spreading, but not 
before a good deal of mischief had been done. 
“On the 5th inst. Dr. Guernsey reported about 115 cases 
in cattle and a few in other animals, and Professor Law, of 
Cornell University, who was with Dr. Guernsey on the 12th, 
states that there is quite a large number of additional cases, 
and that it has appeared in the human subject also in 
several cases, much as reported by Professor Sewell's 
correspondent in 1841. In one or two instances in which 
men have been affected, the characteristic blisters have ap- 
peared between the fingers, but usually only in the mouth. 
The towns in Duchess county know 7 n to be infected are Paw- 
ling, Dover, Lagrange, and Amenia. 
“ It appears to be almost certain that the contagion was 
conveyed to Duchess county by a drover, who finding, on 
his arrival at Albany with a lot of Canadian cattle, that they 
were sick and unsaleable, and being afraid to go to any large 
market, shipped the animals to Poughkeepsie, and drove them 
thence across (by way of Pawling and Dover) to New Milford 
and Kent, in Connecticut, where the disease, as Dr. Guernsey 
is informed, is spreading quite extensively. Professor Law 
found it also in Massachusetts, in the neighbourhood (if I 
understand him rightly in a hurried interview on 15th) of 
Framingham, and there also the introduction of the disease 
is attributed to Canadian cattle. 
ce Mr. Law recommends the prohibition of the importation 
of cattle from Canada until the disease shall have been got 
rid of there; and if this is immediately ordered, and the 
diseased herds are rigorously secluded and the buildings pro- 
perly disinfected, we shall probably be out of danger in a 
few weeks. If, however, we continue importing fresh con- 
