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year ago I investigated his herd with tuberculin, sixty-two heads, 
and found twenty-nine heads tuberculous. 
Mr. Douglas Merritt, of Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, 
bought, fifteen years ago, one heifer of Mr. J. D. Wing, o 1 - 
brook, Dutchess County. I examined said hei er an pro 
nounced her tuberculous. She died one month after of tubercu¬ 
losis. I never heard from Mr. Merritt’s herd until last year 
when I was called to test his cattle for the State Board o 
Health with tuberculin. I found seventeen diseased out oi 
twenty-one heads. Post-mortem showed extensive tuberculosis 
in all cases. , c „ 
F. Traver, D.V.S., of Rhinebeck, was kind enough to fur¬ 
nish me with the post-mortem results of an entire flock of sheep 
which proved to be tuberculous. These sheep were in the same 
field with the cattle. I have learned since the investigation 
that his hogs proved tuberculous also. 
Soon after the investigation of Mr. Merritt’s, I tested the herd 
of John D. Wing, of sixty-two heads, and found twenty-seven 
diseased, which were slaughtered in the presence of Prof. Law, 
who represented John D. Wing. _ 
Mr. O. T. bought twenty-five heads of cows of John D. Wi g, 
and nineteen out of twenty-five proved tuberculous besides af¬ 
fecting his own herd. . , 
Hon. Levi P. Morton’s herd of sixty-two cattle were tested 
with tuberculin and twenty proved to be tuberculous 
The statement of Mr. Cottrell, superintendent of the Morton 
place was, “ I never bought a cow of Mr. S. Verplank, of is - 
kill but what died of tuberculosis.” I then went to Mr. Ver- 
plank’s place and tested his herd of fifty-five heads and found 
twenty-seven diseased. H. Davison, D.V.S., of M.llbrook, told 
me he never had tuberculosis in his herd until he bought cows 
from Mr. Ver Plank. • . 
Mr. E. N. Howell, of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, im¬ 
ported in 1887, 1888 and 1890, twenty-six heads of Guernsey 
cattle, a very choice lot. One year following the importation 
some of the cows commenced coughing and became emaciated, 
