New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-05
Nesp1lork DAILY Gribn,re.
TIE CATTLE DISEASE.

Our articles on the pleuro-pneumona, we are glad
to see have aroused the journals in the States moot in
terested to proper degree Of ALARM aud it is to be
hoped that This may be the means OF abating the
scouree. We are in receipt Of numerous letters from
subscribers describing Of cattle disease which
base occurred in their vicinity, and suggesting
divers remedies. The great majority Of these we
stall not print for the that do not think the
dieeasss veray described at all analogous to the one
raging in Massachusetts; and therefore to try the pre-
scrted remedies would be worse than useless. The
very best preventive which we can recommend is iso
a,iop ard the best remedy the knife If by any un-
fortunate chance an animal should have been brought
in co tact " tb or within half mile of diseased
cattle its owner should at once without any parley
ing or delay separate from every horned animal on
biz place. watch its symptoms oloeely, and if they be-
come more instead of less marked have il killed and
curied. Count Guro sski after experience with
murran in Poland recommends that the beast should
be knocked in the head prefeenoe to being butehered,
since the dsease is thus ess likely to be impaired 70
RAISING cattle than II the blood be spilled ueon the
ground In Ldbeok~ where the disease very fatal,
il o AZ decreed
and covered III compact saith the the barelpsce- are
10 be not ics u'his 'osh o'J P'Ns IIoi ~ oau =,
eed hy cattle ard tt they argarc 70 be surrounded by
rr1r, ionoe OF ditch"
SO aful Were the authorities that special vehicles
we're provided fsr the removal Of anxzals dead OF
pleur zee uInols which were kept in proper places,
and used f,z no other purpose. Persons attending
upon disgasei animals coming in contact with them
or it'll the dess we've rot alo we'd to GO healthy
ones and al tools or u,ensis which they might have
USED were thoroughly cieansed. After the disappear
ance OF The disease from farm for period Of oight
weeks i wac considered free from the nlsady; bat
for fuur weeks )uier she proprietor not allowed
TO FELL any ese;te manore, fodder, TO be removed
from rke farm. The Sysem Of isolation adopted there
IL to pace the suspected animal in pasture so ar
ranged ,hat; will be separated by at least 500 PAGES
from any in which otter cattle are kept. CoHnt gu
| rowss il mistaken in surprising the MassaepusettS
dig,lse the srre IN The tnuran which ID bred in the
Scopes Of the Ukraine and spread thence throughout
Eastern Euyope. That Russian disease is the dreadful
rinderros or eteppc uuurrain This OF ours is quEe
different thing
The Mus.aehusetts Legislative Committee, meeting
pnruant 10 adj urrment, admitted the delegates from
m.;no ~ Eat, with them The Rev. d. Lindley, from
. ,;.;on IN south Africa being called to the stand
~ omc interesting facts in relation 70 the disease IN
h, country. IL was Introduced there about six years
ooo bv the Importation ,G bull from Holland which,
like the Chenery cattle, was in apparent health al tue
time of slipue &, but became diseased when some
weeks out on the voysse. The disease ragged with
such violence that animals died in droyes, and at this
day II has gone 200 miles from Cape Town, and Is
spreading all aong the coast lnnoeuation has been
largely practiced but has proved Of questionable
The Committee on Saturday visited Mr.. Chenery's
farm, in company with other members of the Legs.
lature tho State Commissioners the Maine Commits
souers, and Others, to the number of one hundred.
Mr. Chenery has about forty head of cattle, kept
in Bis barn. where they are in no danger Of spreading
the disease. Nearly all affected, in the Fall
early in the Winter, but Of them have now the
active form Of the disease although most Of them have
Il In a chronic form.
From The Boston TrareiLer we learn that they
Flint looked al large yoke Of oxen which had the disease
lightly They have worked all the SPRING. ia good