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symptoms as the two preceding ones ; this one a descendant of 
one of the others that were killed. The owner was selling the 
milk as usual for the children of the neighborhood, and he must 
have been aware that his course was little less than criminal, as 
he had been told the nature of the disease. He promised to have 
this cow killed, but he sold her for fifteen dollars to a gentleman 
some twelve miles out of this city, as a wet nurse for thorough¬ 
bred calves. The doctor sent word to the gentleman of the pos¬ 
sible results if he persisted in feeding that cow’s milk to calves, 
and again recommended death. Some months after this it was 
learned that the cow was not killed, but again sold for fifteen 
dollais, and soon after this she began to run down so fast that 
she was sold for the last time as a live animal for fifteen dollars 
to a Worcester firm, to be manufactured into bologna sausages. 
The doctor cites a case of a herd of thoroughbred Jerseys 
within seventeen miles of Worcester, where the entire herd was 
killed and buried, and the barn thoroughly cleansed and disin¬ 
fected. Although he does not believe it affects every herd with¬ 
in a radius of ten miles of Worcester, he has occasionally found 
it not only in the city but in almost every adjoining town; and 
he has no doubt but that it lurks insidiously in many a herd, and 
perhaps the owners may be ignorant of the fact, but he is quite 
sure some know they have it and keep very still. 
Herd. 
Bovines on 
Farm. 
Killed. Suspicious. Percentage 
Killed. 
No. 1. 70 
2 . 2 
3 . 57 
4 . 50 
5 . 12 
6 . 13 
7 . 4 
8 . 90 
9 . 34 
10 . 36 
11 . 32 
12 . 61 
13 . 14 
14 . 5 
15 . 4 
*5 - 100.00 
5 - 8.77 
1 8 2.00 
1 3 8.33 
2 1 16.66 
1 -* 25.00 
12 78 13.33 
2 3 5.88 
10 ~ 52.91. 
32 - 100.00 * 
1 36* 1.65 
8 - 57.14 
2 3 40.00 
100.00 
