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from some cause beside contagion, why can’t 
that same cause operate now? If Dr. Salmon 
explains this reasonably and satisfactorily, we 
shall have a clearer idea of the truth abont 
this matter. _ 
If he says the germs which produce the dis¬ 
ease existed previously to the first case of 
disease; then they existed outside of the ani¬ 
mal, and if they so existed then, they may so 
exist now, and the disease be produced without 
any inteiwention of a diseased animal. Now Dr. 
Salmon, I have offered you a heavy contract, 
which I should be very glad for the truth’s 
sake you should fill. 
Uftmtiarg. 
STOCKMAN ON DISEASES OF ANIMALS. 
D. E. SALMON, D. V. M. 
I am glad that Stockman, while smarting 
under the cutting, yet just and merited criti¬ 
cisms of Prof. Morrow, has beeu brought to 
ease his mind by making some statements in 
regard to my work, which are sufficiently de¬ 
finite to admit of being answered. If be will 
continue to bring his statements to a point, 
and tell us just what and who he means, I 
think there will be no difficulty in placiug 
evidence before yonr readers that will con¬ 
vict him of the charge of ignorance, prejudice, 
and general unreliability, which was recently 
brought against him by Professor Morrow. 
Stockman’s first point is this; ’“Only recent¬ 
ly I remarked that the statement of the Agri¬ 
cultural Department, that hog cholera was 
stamped out, and that it was Impossible to get 
virus for experimental purposes, was a forlorn 
hope, etc.” But when and where did the 
Department of Agriculture ever make such a 
statement? And is Stockman absolutely sure 
that he is giving currency to the truth vtbeu 
he repeats it? According to the best of my 
knowledge and belief, the statement was never 
made by the Department, or by any one con¬ 
nected with it. I remember seeing it tloating 
around iu the anonymous paragraphs of the 
newspapers a year and a hulf ago, and at a 
tin e when we had recently obtaiued the virus 
of this disease from three different States, but 
I was never able to trace the rumor to its 
source. 
His next complaint is about the reported 
outbreak of rinderpest at Poughkeepsie. 
There is no doubt but that this was u mistake, 
made by persons ignorant of the character 
and nature of rinderpest, just as Stockman 
makes mistakes about some of the diseases 
which he writes about so knowingly. But 
who made the mistake? Was it a Government 
veterinarian, or a veterinarian at all, or is 
there any evidence that it. was done as a 
money-making operation? As soon as I 
leurued of the report, a reliable inspector of 
the Bureau of Animal Industry was tele¬ 
graphed to go there and make an investiga¬ 
tion, and, as soon us I beard from him, a plain 
statement was given to the Associated Press 
that the disease in New York did not resem¬ 
ble rinderpest in the least, aud that this dis¬ 
ease did not exist in the country. Will 
Stockman say what there was improper In 
that course? 
As to the so-called foot-aud mouth disease 
in Kansas, Stockman ought to know that that 
too was a mistake made by people iu the 
locality where the disease occurred, and that 
it was the investigation which I made there 
for the Department of Agriculture, which 
allayed the excitement. At the time I was 
there the U. S. Senate had passed an appro¬ 
priation of ^oO.OOU to stamp out the disease, 
the House of Representatives had the matter 
under consideration, and would have agreed 
to the bill had my report indicated that the 
disease was contagious. Aud knowing these 
facts, knowing that the Department of Agri¬ 
culture could have this increased amount of 
money pluced in its hands to disburse, l tele¬ 
graphed from Neosho Falls that it was not 
foot and mouth disease, and that there was no 
danger of lUs spreading. The Chuirmun of 
the House Committee having that bill iu 
charge afterwards informed me that it was 
my dispatch which killed the bill. The subse¬ 
quent. history of the disease in Kansas proves 
that 1 was correct. Doas this look as though 
I was simply trying to make money and get 
increased appropriations? 
1 trust, Mr. Editor, you will reproduce the 
next paragraph of Stockman’s article in full, 
as it is such a beautiful example of his style 
of reasoning. He says: 
“A few months ago, it was reported that a 
most alarmiug outbreak of pleuro pneumonia 
bad occurred iu Illinois aud oilier Western 
States, brought there from an Ohio herd of 
Jerseys. The sick cows were killed and 
buried, and the professional executioners re¬ 
joiced that the contagion was stamped out. 
How, after au examination by an expert 
veterinarian, it is stated that this Ohio herd 
is perfectly free from the disease. Surely 
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some one should hear the blame of these 
blunders, and surely some one should be bold 
and fearless enough to tell the truth about 
these things.” 
Exactly, but why doesn’t Stockman tell the 
truth about them? 
The facts are these; The herd in Ohio was 
found to be affected with pleuro-pneumonia 
last Summer. The disease had already ap¬ 
parently affected as many as were susceptible 
when I discovered that it was there. A num¬ 
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herd carefully, I found that seven still bad 
affected lungs, and these, with the consent of 
the owner, I killed In the presence of Capt. 
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of Agriculture, and a number of other per¬ 
sons. Every one of the animals selected, 
though at that time some of them were fat 
and playful, showed the most positive evi¬ 
dence of pleuro-pneumniia when their luugs 
were removed. Stockman may cousult Capt. 
Foster if he does not care to take my state¬ 
ment in regard to this. I made an arrange¬ 
ment with the owner that the remainder of 
the herd should be held in quarantine until 
Spring, being about eight months, and that, 
if no new cases or disease occurred in tbe 
meantime. I would give him a certificate of 
health. The veterinarian referred to by 
Stockman was an inspector of this Bureau, 
and it was not expected that he would find 
the disease; he was simply sent there to see 
that the quarantine regulations were being 
properly carried out aud to make sure that 
no new cases had occurred. 
Stockman assumes the role of virtue, and 
preten Is to be boldly and fearlessly telling the 
truth. Is he really acting on the doctrine 
which lie laid down in a former article, that 
“Mankind like to be fooled and humbugged?” 
Stockman states emphatically that he knows 
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tinguish the symptoms of sporadic pneumonia 
from those of contagious pleuro-pneumonia,” 
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nothing whatever in any recent cases which 
have been reported, that certainly convicts 
any animal of having died of contagious lung 
fever.” Judging from the well-known fact 
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regard to such delicate aud difficult questions, 
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nounce himself so emphatically iu regard to a 
case which ho had never seen, and which had 
beeu diagnosed by a veteriuarian of experi¬ 
ence. 
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something about the diseases of animals,and yet 
assert that sporadic pleuro-pneumonia would 
attack from ten to sixty per cent, of tbe cattle 
in a half dozeu herds, aud this above all in the 
tine weather of Summer ? Does he pretend to 
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Western outbreak? Does he have the superla¬ 
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outbreak showing such a bistory, he is better 
able to judge of its nature without haviug 
seeu one of the diseased uuiumls, than are the 
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the animals which scattered tbe disease from 
the infected herds! W hat a pity that so much 
wisdom and ability, such bold and fearless 
advocacy of tbe truth, should be hidden under 
a nom deplume! 
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