TUBERCULOSIS. 
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wth the best of feed. Some of these cattle aborted and finally 
led. On post-mortem they showed tuberculosis. 
Year after year this disease kept increasing in this herd and 
on the ninth day of November, 1893, I tested the remainder of 
111s erd of fourty-four head. There were nineteen destroyed, 
three awaiting slaughter and eight to be tested. On testing the 
eight heads all were found to be tuberculous. 
But of the twenty-six heads imported they raised sixty-one 
which reached maturity. Of this total of e?ghty-seven heads 
there are to-day only two living. 
There were no cows, c&lves or bull brought to this place ex¬ 
cept the twenty-six head imported up to two years ago; he then had 
to buy new cows for the ones which had died or had been killed 
for tuberculosis. About five years ago I diagnosed tuberculosis in 
this herd; since then this so mortified him that he employed 
other veterinarians to examine his herd, but all agreed with me. 
On September 4th, I killed and cremated the last five tuber¬ 
culous cows on said premises. Mr. Howell claims that he im¬ 
ported this disease from Guernsey Island, to which the evidence 
all points. 
Messrs. Sears and Howell, of Blooming Grove, Orange 
County, had a herd of seventy-nine heads Ayshire and grades. 
They bought five cows from a dealer and placed them with their 
cattle. In about six months they began to lose some cows. I 
made an investigation of this herd with tuberculin and found 
sixty-two diseased. 
Mrs. Allen, of I ittsfield, Mass, owned a very fine selected 
herd of Jerseys of one hundred head. Of this number thirty- 
three were killed on physical diagnosis. I tested the remainder 
with tuberculin and found thirty-three diseased, total number 
sixty-six. The infection of this herd dates eight years back 
when they bought one bull and three cows. The bull died in 
about six months after purchase, very much emaciated, with bad 
cough. No post-mortem made. 
Mr. D. Willigan, of Gardner, Ulster County, had a herd of 
twenty-four heads which I tested and found twenty-one diseased. 
