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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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1874, 1874® 
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471 of tfeis Paper. 
©airymen’s Association of Sew 
Yorlt.—The third annual convention of the New York 
State Dairymen's Association, will be held at Sinclair- 
ville, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., on the lOtli ancl lltli of this 
month. Various papers on practical matters connected 
with dairying will be read, and discussions thereon will 
follow the reading. The conventions already held have 
been made very interesting, and the valuable information 
which has been elicited by the discussions amongst 
noted dairymen, has been a gratifying feature. The ad¬ 
mission to the meetings is 25 cents for each, and the sum 
of $1 constitutes tiie contributor a member, and entitles 
him to a seat in the convention, the use of the Board of 
Trade rooms on market days, and various other privi¬ 
leges. A dairyman can hardly afford to deny himself the 
opportunities here presented to him. 
Vermont Dairymen’s Association. 
The fifth winter meeting of tills association will be held 
at Esses Junction, Vt., on the 21st, 22d, and 23d days of 
January, 1874. This association is composed of practi¬ 
cal men, and hitherto its meetings have been of the most 
interesting character. We understand that all are in¬ 
vited, not only to attend, but to communicate any valu¬ 
able information upon dairy matters they may he pos¬ 
sessed of. Tllere will also be an exhibition of dairy 
products and implements. 
Sales of IF and.—The Uuiou Pacific Rail¬ 
road sold during the month cf September 20,231 acres of 
land at an average price of $5.27 per acre. The total 
sales by this company to October 1st, 1873, arc 790,748 
acres at an average price of $4.50 per acre. 
Ogden Farm Papers— Ho. 46. 
While in England a short time ago I found 
that much attention was being given to a sub¬ 
ject that should be of interest to more than one 
class of the readers of the Agriculturist —that 
is, the liability of milk to act as a means for 
conveying contagious diseases, especially ty¬ 
phoid fever. Numerous cases have recently 
been investigated in London and elsewhere 
which have clearly established the alarming 
fact that, however carefully guarded may be 
the sanitary arrangements of our own dwellings, 
we are all of us liable if we use milk from care¬ 
lessly managed dairies to suffer the effects.of 
typhoid contagion. The cases in point have 
been so numerous, that in the present discussion 
of the question the evil effect is undisputed, 
and the sanitary authorities universally advise 
tlis boiling of all purchased milk (a boiling beat 
destroying the germ of fever). The following 
recently reported case will serve to show the 
extent to which the contagion may spread from 
a single dairy. 
A Mr. Jessop, occupying a dairy farm in 
England, died (of heart disease) while recover¬ 
ing from typhoid fever, and his young son was 
ill with the same disease. Sufficient reason for 
the infection was easily found in the soakage 
of the contents of the privy vault, through the 
soil, into a well about 18 yards distant. Be¬ 
tween the privy and the well was the daily, 
which received its supply of water from the 
latter. For some time previous to the investi¬ 
gation the water was so bad that it was not 
used for drinking, but it w r as used far cooking, 
for washing, and for cleansing and cooling the 
milk cans. To follow all the details in such a 
case would be difficult if not impossible. It 
can not be asserted that Mr. Jessop contracted 
the fever from using the impure water of the 
well, which is most likely. It is possible that 
typhoid germs contained in his excrement, by 
following the ooze into the well, first caused 
the infection of the water. But however it 
may have originated, the infection went from 
the well to tffemilk .cans, and poaspned t'hje 
whole supply of milk tb subh a fle’gre'e that the 
