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the different sections. Tiiose present agreed that they had never 
known or heard of a case of lung plague in any part of the 
county. 
I was next introduced to Mr. J. B. Bansman, a cattle dealer 
of this place. In the pursuit of his business he had been all over 
the county repeatedly, but had never known of a case of the 
disease. The drift of cattle in this place was entirely from 
Western Virginia through to Baltimore—never, so far as he 
knew, from Baltimore here. In his trade he feels very much the 
evils of the English embargo. It makes a difference to him of at 
least $10 per head in the price of his cattle. I then saw Dr. H. 
J. Cossens, an English veterinary surgeon, who has been located 
here for the past fifteen years, and whose practice extends over 
the entire county. He had a considerable experience with the 
lung plague in England, but had never seen but one case in this 
country ; that was many years ago in Virginia. He is sure there 
is none in this county, nor has there ever been. Several other 
gentlemen from different localities were seen, but always with 
the same result. One farmer had a cow, which he had recently 
bought, that was coughing and not doing well. I visited her and 
found her suffering from tuberculosis. In the afternoon I pro¬ 
ceeded to Frederick City, the county seat of Frederick County. 
Here, upon the 11th of March, I called upon Mr. J. W. Baugh¬ 
man, Secretary to the local Agricultural Society. He did not 
know of any diseased animals, but took me out to the Court 
House, where we saw and questioned a number of gentlemen, 
from different parts of the county. None of them knew of any 
cases of this disease; they were very sure that had there been 
any unusual sickness they would have known of it. 
I next saw Dr. P. R. Courtenay, an English veterinary sur¬ 
geon. He had been here but a comparatively short time and had 
heard of nothing that caused him to think that there was any of 
this disease in the county. He kindly offered to bear the matter 
in mind, and if any cases of the disease came to his knowledge, 
he would let me know at once. Here, as in Washington County, 
the whole drift of cattle is from west to east. In the afternoon 
I went to Westminster, the county seat of Carroll County, and 
