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contagious pleuro-pneuraonia. 
On February 26 I visited the farm of Mr. Wynne, near Phila¬ 
delphia. His herd originally consisted of thirty-four head. Ten 
of these had already been killed and two had died of the disease. 
An examination of those left developed the fact that the disease 
was still present in both an acute and chronic form. The owner 
objected to the slaughter of any of the animals. His herd was 
infected by some cows he purchased in the Philadelphia stock 
yards. The disease broke out about the 1st of June last. 
On the 27th of February I visited Messrs. Martin Fuller & 
Co., w r ho have charge of the Philadelphia stock yards. They 
offered me every facility for an examination of the premises. 
During my interview with these gentlemen Mr. Fuller said some¬ 
thing ought to be done to relieve the dealers in stock from the op¬ 
pression of the English embargo; that the European trade is now 
carried on at a positive loss, and that this loss is clearly traceable 
to the embargo on our live cattle. He further stated that he was 
in Europe last season and found the market flooded at Liverpool. 
His stock was detained fifteen days in quarantine before it could 
be slaughtered. Besides the expense of feeding all this time, his 
animals were positively shrinking in weight: that when they were 
finally slaughtered he was compelled to accept any price offered. 
He found dealers there who said they could afford to, gi ve from 
$15 to $20 per head more for the animals if they were allowed to 
drive them back into the country and slaughter them only as 
needed. During the day I met by appointment, Secretary Edge, 
special agent of the Governor. He seemed to appreciate the 
fact that more thorough and active measures than those hereto¬ 
fore used, are necessary for a complete suppression of the plague. 
He thinks the better plan would be to pay a good price for all 
exposed animals, and that in the country all exposed and infected 
animals should be slaughtered, as well as those acutely diseased. 
Under existing circumstances he does not think it would be 
politic for the State of Pennsylvania to thoroughly eradicate the 
disease; indeed, he does not think this possible so long as the 
southern border of the State is unprotected from importations 
from Maryland. Until quarantine measures are established 
