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a mistake in two calves of John D. Wing’s which had marked 
reaction, in which we found numerous small black tumors all 
through the messenteries. Prof. Law, who witnessed these 
post-mortems took these small tumors and innoculated rabbits, 
and on the 15th of June, 1894, at a meeting of the Tuberculous 
Commission, Prof. Law told me that these rabbits proved to be 
tuberculous. 
I will speak on the sanitary condition of stables where I have 
tested cattle. 
J. Gilbert, one stable, good; sunlight good. The other stable 
so bad that I advised him to abandon it. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, money and science could make no im¬ 
provement. 
E. N. Howell, sanitary conditions good. 
J. D. Wings, sanitary conditions good. 
S. Verplank, had two stables, one very good and the other 
very poor. 
D. Willigan, stable in good condition. 
Sears & Howell, one basement stable uncommonly poor, so 
much so that I advised them to never put any cattle there again. 
The other stable was above ground and in very good condition. 
L. Burchard, stable very poor. 
Mrs. Allen, stable very fine. 
E. Clarkson, stable very poor and no diseased cattle. 
George Cromwell, who suffered the heaviest loss, has a stable 
one story high, above ground and plenty of ventilation on all 
four sides. 
M. Scofield, stable good. 
I have mentioned these conditions as the question may arise 
to what extent the housing of cattle under poor sanitary con¬ 
ditions might play in the spread of tuberculosis. In a few of the 
herds which suffered badly, I found the focus in a basement under 
the stables. I have made it my special duty to advise farmers 
to better their stables for the housing of their cattle and especially 
the ventilation direct from the stables through the roof, and more 
sunlight. 
