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evidence was not as yet sufficiently conclusive, but was enough to 
warrant more care than is now exercised in ascertaining the 
health of our food supply. 
The Chair fully agreed with Mr. McEachran as to the infec¬ 
tiousness of the disease, and recommended better supervision of 
the meat and dairies of large cities. 
The Secretary read a letter from Dr. C. C. Lyford, describing 
a peculiar case in a cow that had been bitten by a dog supposed 
to be suffering from rabies. 
At the next meeting Dr. Bell reads. 
After a vote of thanks to Dr. Lyford and the essayists, the 
meeting adjourned. 
EXTRACTS. 
PLEURO-PNEUMON1A IN PENNSYLVANIA. 
Abstract from the Report of Thomas J. Edge, the Governor’s Agent. 
Under an Act “ to prevent the spread of contagious or infec¬ 
tious pleuro-pneumonia among the cattle of this State,” passed 
May 1, 1879, Governor Hoyt issued a proclamation to owners of 
cattle, &c., requesting them to report all cases and suspected 
cases of such disease among neat cattle. Under the same Act 
the Governor appointed Thomas J. Edge, Esq., Secretary of the 
State Board of Agriculture, as his agent, invested with authority 
to carry out the object of the law. The Record is indebted to 
the courtesy of Mr. Edge for advance sheets of his report, from 
which is taken the following:— 
Under the commission before quoted the agent of the Gover¬ 
nor has (up to November 1) quarantined twenty-seven herds, in¬ 
cluding 408 animals liable to infection, and distributed in the 
following counties : Adams, one ; Lancaster, four ; York, one ; 
Bucks, one; Delaware, four; Montgomery, five, and Chester, 
eleven. Of these herds eight (one in York, three in Montgomery 
and four in Chester) have been since released from the quarantine 
