188 CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN NEW YORK. 
law on the subject extensively advertised, and no cows 
allowed to move on the streets unless accompanied with a 
permit bearing the autograph of General Patrick, to obtain 
which a previous inspection was required. 
By the generosity of the Union Stock Itard and Market 
Co., in their desire to encourage and protect the business, 
extensive yards and sheds were built at o9th Street and 
North River. A new era dawned on the cow trade. Gen. 
Patrick brought the lines closer and closer as he felt the 
traces drawing. Opposition from interested parties, those 
who rebelled through ignorance, or the authorities that 
failed to do their duty, were each met in his turn by our 
executive and shown their proper course. Railroads, steam¬ 
boats, and barges, bringing store cattle to the New York 
markets, were compelled to land them at our yards for in¬ 
spection and distribution. 
Orders w T ere promulgated prohibiting dealers from keep¬ 
ing cows on sale in their own stables or moving cows from 
one stable to another, effectually doing away with all ped¬ 
dling. The great step w 7 as now attained, and movement of 
cows simplified to going from the yards to the stables, and 
from the stables to the slaughter-houses. Gentlemen, you 
can easily imagine that New York and Brooklyn are prac¬ 
tically in a state of thorough quarantine. 
Now, if you will add to these rules the liberal indemnity 
allowed by the State for such diseased animals as are reported, 
you can see how r little is to be gained by any dairyman con¬ 
cealing the existence of the disease. 
But the establishment and enforcing of these regulations 
has not been a w T ork to receive, as one might suppose, 
the hearty co-operation of our leading agriculturists, our 
agricultural press, or even of all the members of the veteri¬ 
nary profession. From the very first the journal, w hich in 
our State stands highest as an exponent of live-stock interest, 
has taken every opportunity to throw doubt on the existence 
of the disease. The Executive Committee of the New York 
State Agricultural Society, even after the infected district 
had been very accurately marked out by the labours of the 
veterinary staff, passed resolutions to give publicity to their 
opinion that there were grave doubts in regard to the con¬ 
tagious character of the malady as it exists in this State, 
But w 7 orse than all, gentlemen, w T as the opposition that came 
from members of our ow 7 n profession—from men holding 
the diplomas of leading veterinary institutions, to whom the 
public looked for sound advice based upon thorough pro¬ 
fessional knowledge, 
