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the disease, which proved simply ruinous. They should have 
visited the extensive and valuable Jersey herd of Mr. James A. 
Hoyt of Patterson, Putnam Co., N. Y., where the introduction 
of the infection in four cows from New Jersey and Maryland 
led to the disease of the entire herd and to the loss of $20,000 or 
more. They should have witnessed the losses consequent on the 
introduction from New York city stock yards of infected animals 
into the stock farm of Mr. Baldwin, live stock agent of the’Erie 
Pailway, into the Westchester herd of Mr. Roach of shipbuilding 
fame, into the dairy herd of the Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum, 
into the herd of the Children’s Hospital at Willowbrook, Staten 
Island, and into a thousand others which it would be too tedious 
to mention. They should have witnessed the many similar re¬ 
sults in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, and then 
they would have been in a position to decide justly whether we 
were dealing with a terribly contagious and fatal disease of the 
lungs or not. 
I mention these cases of recent infection not as desiring to 
publish that any of the stock specifically named are to-day tainted 
with this disease, for in every such instance the malady has been 
stamped out, and the stock can now be certified sound. I adduce 
them merely as undeniable outbreaks occurring in the herds of 
men so well-known that no one interested in the subject can have 
any difficulty in attesting their truth for himself. Let our tra- 
ducers try to disprove these few instances of the many outbreaks 
we are prepared to attest. Similar outbreaks are occurring to¬ 
day. 
The New York Disease Imported. 
But some will even deny that the disease prevalent on our 
eastern seaboard is the genuine lung plague of Europe. Well, it 
was unknown in America until 1848, when Peter Dunn of Brook¬ 
lyn bought an English cow from the ship “ Washington.” This 
cow died in a few weeks of this lung affection, and the disease 
quickly spread to his other cows and to those of his neighbors, in¬ 
cluding the stables of the Skillman Street Distillery, where it 
continued until 1862 and was recognized by Dr. Thayer and the 
other members of the Massachusetts Commission. 
