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own at Watertown. They proved to be affected with contagious 
pleuro-pnenmonia, and soon infected the herd with which they 
had been placed. The herd was quarantined, bv order of the 
State Commissioners, but the owner on the 8th of March, 1879, 
broke quarantine and took them to New York. This fact com¬ 
ing to the knowledge of the authorities in time, they were enabled 
to be in New York on the arrival of the animals, where they were 
at once killed by order of the New York Commission. Mr. 
David D. Hawley, of Danbury, had an outbreak of disease in his 
herd on October 27,1879. They were visited by Dr. Hopkins of 
New York, who made an autopsy of a calf and pronounced the 
disease tuberculosis. The calf came from New York, and had 
been with the herd but a month. 
Mr. Porter, of Waterbury, had an outbreak among his cattle 
on the 13th of November, which the attendant veterinarian feared 
might prove to be contagious pleuro-pneumonia. The herd was 
visited by the State Board on November 18, and the decision ar¬ 
rived at was that the animals were suffering simply from sporadic 
disease. No post-mortem examination was made, and they are 
now reported as doiug well. 
Some trouble was reported among cattle at Hartland and Mil¬ 
ford, but on examination by the Commissioners, the disease was 
decided to be sporadic. I. visited the herd of B. L. Mead, of 
North Greenwich, which I found suffering from contagious pleuro¬ 
pneumonia. Although the trouble was of long standing, some of 
the cows certainly were in a condition to convey the disease to 
healthy or non-infected animals. There were ten cows, one pair 
of oxen, one yearling and six calves in this herd. 
The herds of Daniel M. Griffin, Joseph B. Husted, David D. 
Hawley and Mr. Porter were visited, but no cases of the plague 
were found. Deports from Watertown, Waterbury, North Brad¬ 
ford, Hartland and Milford were of such an assuring character 
that I did not deem it necessary to visit those points. 
NEW YORK. 
I am indebted to the New York Commission for the following 
statement, made February 12, 1880:— 
