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AUSTIN PETERS. 
the previous spring and two years old the following spring, and 
a bull. The bull was a Jersey and the majority of the females 
were Jerseys and their grades. A more complete description of 
each animal will be given with the notes on each one. At the 
time of this visit (Oct. 14th) the creatures were seen at large in 
the fields, and only a cursory examination was made, but it was 
enough to show that a number were suffering with tuberculosis. 
The farmer was decidedly inclined to be obstreperous, and 
would vouchsafe no information as to who owned the farm or 
the cattle, simply saying that everything was his, hence there 
was a good deal ol delay in taking further steps in the matter, 
and it was only after stopping the sale of the milk from the 
cows in New York, and invoking the protection of a deputy- 
sheriff, that the work could be carried on. 
It afterward transpired that the farm and cattle were leased 
by the farmer from the widow of a New York business man, the 
milk being sold in a fashionable quarter of the city of New York 
at a fancy price as being the product of a very choice Jersey 
herd. The gentleman formerly owning the farm had a penchant 
for Jerseys, but as the disease made inroads into the original 
herd the places of the departed ones were made good by new 
purchases of cows of the ordinary varieties, it devolving upon 
the tenant to restore the farm to the owner, when his lease 
expired, with the same number of cows as when he hired it. 
It was not, therefore, until December 14th that decisive ac¬ 
tion was taken; on this date the bull and ten cows, which were 
undoubtedly tuberculous, were seized and driven to the knack¬ 
ers, and on the following day (December 15th) they were killed 
and autopsies made upon them with the following results: The 
numbers appended are the tag numbers, each animal con¬ 
demned by order of the New York State Board of Health hav¬ 
ing a brass tag attached around the horns by means of a small 
iron chain, applied with a pair of pincers. 
Tag No. 30.—Jersey bull, about six years old. Autopsy re¬ 
vealed extensive tuberculosis of both lungs, and slightly 
tuberculous mediastinal glands. 
