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PLEUROPNEUMONIA 
Company. His farm is located in New Castle Hundred, about 
two miles from Wilmington. In 1858 he had a valuable herd of 
animals. During this year contagious pleuro-pneumonia broke 
out among some cattle on a farm about three miles from his 
place. Fearing the infection of his herd, he commenced to sell 
off his cattle as he could find purchasers, but before this was 
accomplished, and perhaps within four months, it reached his 
farm, and by spring he had but one animal left. For two years 
after this he was without cattle, but at this time he commenced 
to stock his farm again. About six years ago the disease was 
introduced into a herd kept on a farm about two miles from his 
place. His own cattle remained exempt until about two years 
ago, when they were again infected. Since then he has been 
using the fumes of burning sulphur, and has had no fatal cases. 
Mr. Lobdell informed me that some sort of a law had been 
passed by the State looking to a suppression of the disease, and 
that three Commissioners had been appointed by the Governor to 
superintend and enforce its provisions. 
MARYLAND. 
Although it has long been known in a general way that con- 
tageous pleuro-pneumonia existed among the cattle of this State, 
no effort on the part of the authorities has ever been made to 
ascertain with any exactness the localities of the diseased herds. 
On the 8tli of March I proceeded to Baltimore, where I at once 
called upon Mr. Win. B. Sands, editor of the American Farmer , 
a gentleman who had greatly interested himself in this matter, 
and who gave me all the information in his possession as to the 
localities and extent of the plague in the State, as well as kindly 
furnishing me with letters of introduction to the officers of the 
different agricultural societies throughout the State. On the 9th 
of March I visited Hagerstown, the county seat of Washington 
county, where on the next morning I called upon F. A. Witner, 
Esq., secretary of the County Agricultural Society. He said he 
did not believe there was any disease in the county; that upon 
the day before there had been a meeting of the Board of Agri¬ 
culture, at which there had been a good representation from all 
