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PLEUROPNEUMONIA IN CATTLE. 
market with the view of securing what salvage he can ; jet our 
laws allow the removal of these eminently suspicious cattle from 
the infected markets of Baltimore, Philadelphia, Camden, Jersey 
City and New York, to whatever State or Territory the purchaser 
may elect. Numerous instances can be adduced in which infec¬ 
tion has recently spread short distances from our large markets in 
this way, as from New York stock yards into the herd of Mr. 
Ross in Dutchess County (the first recorded infection of the 
county), into that of Mr. A. S. Baldwin in Putnam County, into 
those of Messrs. Hyde and Roach in Westchester County, and into 
those of the Seligs and Stoltee in Richmond County. These are 
but straws showing what is going on all the time from our infected 
markets, and with a disease like the lung plague, which may 
remain latent in the system of the infected animal for ninety to 
one hundred days, it would be just as easy to have the disease sent 
out from these markets to Terre Haute, Kansas City or Cheyenne. 
It will not be at all surprising if it shall prove that the plague has 
already been carried to the great cattle-growing regions of the 
west in some of the extensive shipments made last autumn. If 
such has really been the case, it may be expected to show itself 
along the lines of cattle traffic from the infected western center 
in the course of the coming year. Even in such a dreadful con¬ 
tingency it may still be possible to stamp it out, but only at a 
great increase of expense and at the cost of a much more serious 
interference with the cattle traffic, provided always that the pes¬ 
tilence has not yet reached our unfenced cattle ranges. 
In view of the above, we beg to reiterate with greatly in¬ 
creased emphasis our recommendation of a year ago, that the 
Federal Government shall forbid the movement of store cattle out 
of any infected State , Territory, or district, into any other State , 
Territory , or district , except after a quarantine such as is now 
imposed on the cattle imported from infected foreign countries. 
This prohibition would include New York, New Jersey, Dela¬ 
ware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Col¬ 
umbia, and should be drawn so that any other State found to be 
infected might be at once added to flic list. (See our last year’s 
report, pages 69 and 70.) 
