PLEUROPNEUMONIA. 
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PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN CONNECTICUT. 
From the report made by Prof. Cressy, of the Amherst, 
Mass., Agriculural College, E. H. Hyde, chairman of the Con¬ 
necticut Cattle Commission, and secretary of the Connecticut 
Board of Agriculture, it appears that pleuro-pneumonia prevails 
to an alarming extent in portions of Fairfield Co., Conn., and 
Westchester Co., H. Y. These gentlemen made a thorough ex¬ 
amination of the infected herds, and this report can be relied on. 
One farmer, S. S. Mead, of Greenwich, Conn., bought a calf in 
Hew York city last September, which died of pleuro-pneumonia 
within a month after its purchase. Since then Mr. Mead has lost 
five cows and another calf from the dreaded disease, while sev¬ 
eral others in his herd have been more or less affected. On an 
adjoining farm two cattle have died, another reported dying, and 
nineteen cows and a yoke of oxen sick. Another farmer has his 
herd exposed, and has already lost several cows. It seems that 
this disease is liable to break out again, in a herd that has once 
been infected, even though several months have passed without 
any appearance of sickness. A farmer in Fairfield Co.. Conn., 
bought some cows from Westchester Co.. H. Y., some five years 
ago, and lost several from pleuro-pneumonia, but the herd lias 
been apparently free from the disease for three years, until quite 
recently, when it broke out again. 
In Connecticut the authorities have no power to kill diseased 
animals; the infected herds are placed in quarantine. We would 
caution western farmers against buying breeding stock from the 
east unless they can receive undoubted assurance that the animals 
have never been in an infected herd, or in any way exposed to 
the disease .—Prairie Farmer. 
CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN NEW JERSEY. 
Editor Review: 
On the 24th of March, 1879, I had the honor to receive, 
from the authorities of the State of Hew Jersey, an appointment 
as Veterinary Surgeon-in-Chief to the State, with the ostensible 
