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STAMPING OUT PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN NEW YORK. 
destruction of diseased and infected animals, was pushed forward 
with great energy, additional veterinarians having been added to 
the staff for that purpose. 
The centralization of the business of the cow trade at the 
Union Stock Yards, in the beginning of July, 1879, and the 
stringent orders prohibiting dealers keeping cows on sale else¬ 
where, was the result of tracing outbreaks of disease in cow 
stables, hitherto free, to the dealers’ stable and their pernicious 
traffic in diseased cows. 
Humors of disease reached our office about May 1st, 1879, of 
cattle dying in the eastern part of Suffolk county, (Long Island), 
and Prof. Law at once proceeded to that locality to investigate, 
and found that a dealer named Billard had bought a lot of 
calves, (110), some at the Union Stock Yard, New York, but 
mainly in New Jersey, and taken them to Suffolk county, where 
lie peddled them about among the farmers, mostly of Southamp¬ 
ton, Bridgehampton, and Eastliampton in lots of three to fifteen. 
All the sick animals examined by Prof. Law belonged either to 
the Billard animals themselves, or to those which had been 
brought in contact with them. 
Chas. S. .Rogers, Esq., of Segg, was placed in charge of the 
towns of Eastliampton, Southampton, and BrOokhaven, to carry out 
the provisions of the law under Gen’l Patrick’s directions, assisted 
from time to time by a Veterinary Inspector from the General’s 
staff. 
The United States authorities at Washington have issued 
stringent orders in regard to foreign importations ; requiring all 
cattle from the British Isles to be held in quarantine ninety (90) 
days, but providing no quarantine ground nor facilities for carry¬ 
ing out the Treasury instructions. Such cattle, under such cir¬ 
cumstances, were landed in New York, and, for our own safety, 
the State authorities were at the expense and trouble of holding 
them in quarantine at the farm of the importer. 
Finding that there was a disposition to take advantage of the 
facilities given at our office for imported cattle to pass into the 
interior, then to be quarantined, Gen. Patrick notified the Secre¬ 
tary of the Treasury that he would decline hereafter to assume 
