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PNEUMONIA AMONG CATTLE. 
PNEUMONIA AMONG CATTLE. 
AFTER BEING ERADICATED IT BREAKS OUT AGAIN—THE STATE 
REFUSES TO PAY FOR ANIMALS KILLED—PROSECUTIONS 
THREATENED/ 
Pleuro-pneumonia has broken oat again among Pennsylvania 
cattle, and, unfortunately, just at a moment equally critical for 
the farmers on the one hand, aud a large body of business men 
on the other, owing to the action of the State authorities. 
Both traders and agriculturalists will do well to give some 
heed to the subjoined facts, for the interests of both are deeply 
involved in the question, What is to be done ? 
United States Inspector Gadsden said last night to a represen¬ 
tative of this paper that for a year or more State Inspector Edge 
had been doing his best to stamp out the disease. His efforts had 
at last been attended with success, and word was just about to 
be sent to the British consul—it will be remembered what a dis 
turbance was created by that official’s caution about American 
cattle—that pleuro-pneumonia had been totally eradicated from 
the State of Pennsylvania. 
Suddenly, while that letter was lying ready to be mailed, 
came the announcement that the pest had made its appearance in 
two herds in York and Delaware counties. This was at first con¬ 
sidered a trilling annoyance, and would have been so had it not, 
by the sudden and unexpected action of the State authorities, 
been changed into a very grave and complicated matter, menu 
cing the agricultural and commercial interests of the State. 
The disease had been stamped out by the operation of the 
act of May 1, 1879, under which the State paid a fair valuation 
for all cattle killed, assessed by arbitration under the administra¬ 
tion of State Inspector Dr. Tlios. J. Edge. The farmers knowing 
their cattle would be fairly paid for had reported the cases hon¬ 
estly ; the herds had been quarantined; the infected animals 
killed, and the disease had been prevented from spreading. When 
* Philadelphia Inquirer. 
