CORRESPONDENCE. 
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Illinois—The counties of Cass, Kane, Du Page, Peori, White- 
side, Morgan and Schuyler. 
Osage county, Missouri; Harrison county, Kentucky ; Travis 
county, Texas ; and the District of Columbia are also included. 
The proclamation also recites that splenic or Texas fever ex¬ 
ists in certain localities in Texas, and forbids the transportation of 
cattle into or through Wyoming. The proclamation provides that 
all animals brought into that Territory from points lying east of 
the ninth degree of longitude west shall be brought by rail and 
shall be unloaded at the Territorial quarantine station and there 
be subjected to a rigid inspection by the Territorial Veterinary 
Surgeon. 
It is a pretty clearly demonstrated fact that at present there 
is no pleuro-pneumonia existing in an epidemic form in Illinois, 
though it is said that it is not certainly known that there is not 
one or two localities where there is danger to be apprehended. 
Some of the localities mentioned in this State in this proclamation, 
however, are unjustly discriminated against. The Illinois Live 
Stock Commission will hold a meeting at an early date and take 
action on the quarantine restrictions to be inaugurated in this State 
under the new law. 
Gov. Oglesby has turned over to the Auditor for payment 
claims for animals slaughtered under the old law on account of 
being diseased or infected with pleuro-pneumonia. The claims 
aggregate about $7,000, being the amount of the appraised value 
of the animals; but since the new law provides that owners of 
animals killed by the State Veterinarian cannot lCceive in excess 
of $75 per head, the Auditor cannot pay the full amount, and 
the amount will be reduced fully one-half.— Western Rural. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
PROLIFIC COW. 
Dear Sir. —A cow belonging to Leander Sherman, Burrill- 
ville, R. I., four years old, gave birth, on September 5, to three 
calves. All are doing well up to date. The cow is a thorough¬ 
bred Ayrshire and the bull the same. 
Yours in haste, C. H. Peabody. 
