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ion in tlie matter, kindly told a protesting cattle owner, for whom 
I had destroyed three cows, that the veterinary surgeon-in-chief 
had killed his cows without any authority whatever and without 
any instructions from him. It is to be presumed that the Exec¬ 
utive received similar information, for a telegram to his represen¬ 
tative, of the same date, reads: “ I knew you were right and 
that he was wrong.” 
During the thirty-three days which elapsed from the time of 
my appointment until I resigned, fourteen cases of contagious 
pleuropneumonia were killed and buried or delivered to the 
offal contractor, and I leave it to the profession to imagine, if 
they can, and the authorities to prove by their labors, at what 
time in the future New Jersey will be freed from this disease. 
Respectfully, 
New Yoke, April 30th, 1879. A. A. Holcombe. 
PLEUROPNEUMONIA IN PENNSYLVANIA. 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. ) 
Veterinary Department, Board of Agriculture. S 
Carversville, Fa., May 19, 1879. 
Editor American Veterinary Review: 
It may not prove uninteresting to your readers to have a very 
brief sketch of the action which the great State of Pennsylvania 
is taking in regard to that most insidious of all contagious bovine 
maladies, namely, Plearo-Pneumonia Contagiosa. 
Official reports from New York and New Jersey, declaring 
the prevalence of this disease in those States, led to an investiga¬ 
tion in this, which was instituted under the orders of the Secre¬ 
tary of the State Board of Agriculture. On March 15th, in 
company with two gentlemen from the Market Farmers’ Club 
of Philadelphia, I visited farms in Delaware County, near 
Upper Darby, and found some well marked and clearly defined 
cases of contagious pleuro-pneutnonia. I at once wrote the par¬ 
ticulars of this visit to Thomas J. Edge, Secretary of the State 
Board of Agriculture, and through this gentleman’s* efforts a 
joint resolution passed the House and Senate authorizing the 
Governor to investigate the cause, nature and extent of this mal- 
