The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-06-21
The Cattle Di>,emp.r in the East.

The pleuro peneumouia. which has been
raging among the cattle in Massachusetts,
for some months past, is exciting general
alarm throughout New Epgland, and the
appointment of Commissioners from Ohio
to visit the localities where the disease is
most prevalent, is by nc meapsa needless
preeautiou. The contagion is now spread
ing into New Hampshire. and insulated cases
are described IN various towns in Connecti.
eutt and Rhode Island. The policy of
killing the diseased kiue and reimbursing
the owners at the public expense has been
found too costly method TO be long pur-
sued, aud the Legislature of Massachusetts
will doubtless report during lis present ex-
ira session. csiled exclusively for the con-
sideration of the existing emergency, some
peated slaughterings failed to stay the
spread oil the plague, but il has been dis.
covered that the farmers are not over and
above anxious when they feel that their
losses will be covered.-Csn. Gazette.
The following statistics are tax en- from the
repor, of the Massachusetts Commissioners
10 the Legislature:
Animals killed, diseased. 1876; animals
exposed, pronounced sound. and killed.
COWS 189; helfers. 3yesrs old. 81; heifers.
years old, Al; oxen. IS; steers. years
old. 81; steers. 2 years old, "a; yearlngs,
81 calves, 107; bulls, 9; animals not des.
cribed, 33; total lac. The appraised val
ue OF all these animals, sound and diseased
is S2U,432 So. IL Is esiima ed that the
number of animals, diseased. exposed and
suspected, is as follows: North Brookfeld
$50, South Brookheld 22O, West Brookfeld
50. Oakbam 81, New Brsintree 255, Sur
bridge SO, Spencer so, Pelham 10; total
1855.
A COW was slaughtered at Holden on
| Friday, and was found to bs thoroughly
diseased with pleuro-pneumonia. Several
| hundred animals have been exposed TO in
feetion from her. A considerable alarm is
felt in the vicinity. Five cattle have been
slaug ghtered at Antrim. New Hampshire.
which were pronounced diseased. Seven
cattle, belonging to a lot of two hundred
sent from this State TO Lempster, New Hamp-
shire, near Bellows Falls. to pasture for the
summer, have died of the disease. as be
lieved, and the people Of the town and the
vicinity are greatly excited ON the subject,
and have called public meeting.
In regard to the prevalence Of the dis
ease outside of Massachusetts, the Spring
feld Republican thinks that the rumors are
texageEaled; but the alarm is. nevertheless,
a. .. shouto OSs s0AJ 6AC0s. An ooUtAc6SleIn
New Hampshire. frequent cases Of sickness
ard death are reported. many Of which
could not possibly have resuked from direct
contagion. The New Hampshire Legisla.
tnre, which assembled on Wednesday. will
take the matter into immediate considera-
ton, and large portion OF the Governor
message is devoted to the subject. In an
article upon the disease, and the probable
consequences of its prevalence in the State,
the Manchester American furnishes the fol
lowing facts:
The cash value of the live stock in New
Hampshire in 1850. was precisely ss,s6l :
col, aud now will stand ., about eleven
! millions of dollars. The butter and cheese
made in New Hampshiss m 1850 Was TO-.
1850 pounds, and now far exceeds tha,
amount. The value Of animals slaughtered
IN 1880 was 81, I,5e2. .s5z. The best agricul-
tur alis;s in the State estimate that the total
amount nov received by the farmers for
their live stock, tits present vsiue. and the
butter and cheese annually made. and the
milk, with the value of labor performed by
working oxen. &c, Is Just about twenty
millions Of dollars.
II the cattle disease should become gen.
eral as il nov 10 N soDs pHts Of Earope. i