Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-06-08

The Cattle Wistemner ~ tlae EnAts
The plcuropneumonio. which has been "a
eing among the cattle in Massachusetts for
some months past q exciting general alarm
throughout New England, and the appoint.
mcni Of Commissioners from Ohio 70 wish the
localities where the discnsc q most prevalent
| is By no means needless prccantion The
contagion is now spcadinR into New Hamp-
shire, and isolated cases are described in va
rious towns IN Connoaicuu and Rhode Island
The policy Of killing the diseased kline and
rc-imburdng the owners nj the public expense
has been found too costly method TO be long
pursued, and the Legislature Of Massachusetts
will doubtless report duriug its present extra
session, called exclusively for the conaidera-
ton Of the existing emergency SONS new
course Of action Not only have repeated
slaughterings failed to stay the spread of the
plague, but Il has been discovered that the
farmers are not over and above anxious when
they feel thnt their losses win be covered.
4 The following statistics are taken from the
report Of the Massachusetts Commissioners
to the Legislature:
Animals killed, diseased, ls5 animals eN-
posed, pronounced sound, and killed--cows,
lao; heifers. years old, 6l heifers, years
old, al oxen, So, steers, 2 years old, 81
steers, years old "a yearlings 81; calves,
lO7 bulls, .; animals not described, 30 to-
tai, SI2 The appraised value of all these
animals, sound and diseased, is 800 432 80. II
is estimated that the number Of animals dis
eased, exposed and suspected, is rs follows
North Brookfed $50, South Brookfeld 22O
West Brookfeld 80, Oakham 80, New Braintrec
255, Stnrbridge 90 Hubbardston 90, Pelham
TO- total l,O56
A COW was slaughtered at Holden on Friday
and was found TO be thoroughly diseased with
pleuro-pneumonia Several hundred animal'
have been exposed to infection from her A
considerable alarm is felt in the vicinity. Five
cattle have been slaughtered at Antrim, New
Hampshire, which were pronounced diseased
Seven cattle, belonging 20 a lot Of two hun
dred sent from this State to Dempster New
Hampshire, near Bellows Falls, 10 pasture fol
the summer, have died Of the disease, rs be
lteved and the people Of the town and tbs
vicinity are greatly excited on the subject, ant
have called public meeting.
In regard TO the prevalence of the diseas,
publican thinks that the rumors are exagger
ated but the alarm is, nevertheless, as i
should be- very great In Southeastern New
Hampshire, frequent cases of sickness anC
death are reported many Of which could moi
possibly have resulted from direct contagion
The New Hampshire Legislature, which as
sembled ON Wednesday, will take the matter
into immediate consideration and large por
ton of the Governors message is devoted tc
the subject In an article upon the disease
and the probable consequences Of its prevail
ence in the State, the Manchester american
furnishes the following facts;
The cash value of the live stock in New
Hampshire in 1850 was precisely $s,s1l ,9Ol
I and now will stand at about eleven millions %
dollars The butter and cheese made in New
Hampshire in 1850 was l0,l73,Gl9 pounds
and now far exceeds that amount The valu'
of animals slaughtered in 1850 was 81 ,522, ,S73
The best agricutursts in the State estimate
that the total amount now received by th'
farmers for their live stock, Gtr present value,
and the butter and cheese annually made, an'
the milk, with the value of labor performed b,
working oxen, &c, is just about twenty million
of dollars
II the cattle-disease should become genera
as it now is in some parts of Europe, it woul'
be an annual loss of twenty millions of dollar
: to Now Hampshire That it would completed
Z. paralyze the most important branch of produC
n tive industry in our State, no man can deny
" And what could take the place of our herds .
; Craze on our granite hillst 1t would take tn
r State half a century to recover from the shock
d The American recommends that the Legis
>. ature appoint Board Of Commissioners, no
to slaughter diseased cattle, but for conferenc
q and aid to the farmers 1t also recommend
$ that power to act in the premises be put int
e the hands of the towns, and that law b
. passed prohibiting the driving of cattle iron
one town to another under a penalty OF hv
housand dollars.