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PLEUROPNEUMONIA. 
called upon Colonel "W. A. McKellip, President of the County 
Agricultural Society. He was sure there was no disease of the 
kind in the county, but he said it was quite a common thing at 
certain seasons of the year for cattle to be brought here from 
Baltimore. This I regarded as a very suspicious circumstance, 
and so asked for an introduction to some cattle dealers in town. 
This was kindly granted, and I proceeded to call upon Mr. 
Edward Lynch. He said : “ Farmers hereabout generally make 
milk for the Baltimore market, and procure their cows from 
among themselves ; but from the time that grass comes up until 
late in the fall of the year some of them are in the habit of feed¬ 
ing cattle; that the cattle for this purpose are generally bought 
at the “ Scales” in Baltimore ; that in this way last fall Mr. 
Samuel Cover, of Silver Bun, this county, procured some stock 
which, after having been on his place for a short time, developed 
disease of some sort; some died, and some that were sick, got 
well. Also, a Mr. Beacham, of Westminster, had had trouble 
of a similar nature for some time past. In a general way, he 
knew that the farmers hereabout were somewhat frightened about 
contagious pleuro-pneumonia. On Marcli 12, I drove to the 
farm of Mr. Samuel Cover, above referred to, at Silver Bun, and 
found three cases of chronic contagious pleuro-pneumonia. This 
gentleman stated that he had got the disease last fall through 
some steers that came from Southwestern Virginia, but which 
had stopped at the Baltimore stock yards for some little time, at 
which place he had bought them. Some four or live weeks after 
lie got them, the disease broke out among them. He had at the 
time some eighty head of neat stock. Of these fifteen were 
sick. When the disease first showed itself, he put all the sick 
animals in a building by themselves, and had all his stables thor¬ 
oughly disinfected. This was kept up all the time, and the places 
repeatedly whitewashed. In all, four animals died—two of them 
the Baltimore steers; the other two were cows which he had had for 
some time. Mr. Coven further says that now, when he gets 
cltate, he always puts them by themselves in a building entirely 
away from his regular cow stables, and hopes in this way to avoid 
any further outbreaks among his herds. 
