Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-04

tlstflt Dsasaas-s6iev. manllai MESSAGE.
The cattle disease has appeared in the neigh
borhood Of Newark, New Jersey, and out Of
seven cattle attacked, four had died up to The
slst uh. Esaninations show the disease to
Be the same as that in aassaehusetss and The
disease is supposed 70 have been introduced
by an animal from that State.
Great anxiety on the subject of the
cattle disease is felt in Maine, and the Gov
ernor has appointed commission of three to
visit Massachusetts, for the purpose of investi-
eating and reporting upon the subject with
view to the dissemination Of the information
acquired among the people of Maine.
The message of Gov. Banks to the special
session Of the Legislature Of Massachusetts,
on the subject of the alarming Pleuro-Pneu-
monia, states that The Commissioners appoint
Cd under the statute have examined all sus-
pected herds, and many cattle have been is
Olated by their order Eight hundred and
forty-two have been slaughtered, fol. which
compensation has been allowed by the Com
missioners to the amount of $780, ,4s2, The
Governor urges the Legislature TO regulate or
prohibit, so far as il can be wisely and proper
ly done, the expectation of cattle, in which
the seeds of disease may possibly exist from
Massachusetts, into other States, and to en-
large the powers of towns, 50 that they may
protect themselves from invasion by infected
cattle, and control the course of the disease
when ii is discovered within their limits
Also to make the sale of sick or diseased
animal criminal offence by statute law
Gov. Banks also suggests thorough scien-
tifc investigation of the character of the
disease i-
According to the message the disease was
introduced into Massachusetts the 23d of May,
1859, with an Importation of Dutch cattle
from Holland, and the distemper at present
existing can be traced to no other cause than
this importation. The symptoms of the dis
ease do not essentially differ from the de-
scription given by English medical authors,
of the disease called pleurO-pneumonia, as it
exists in England.
The message presents some facts and fig
ures on the subject of the great interest the
American people have in the gigantic cattle
industrial products. The neat cattle in the
United States, in 1850, numbered ls, s7s, 900.
The natural increase, say 20 per cent, gives
22OoO,OOO Sin 1850. The number of milk
COWS returned to tie census bureau for 1850,
was over 6,0OO,ooO, and the number of work
ing oxen was nearly million and three quar-
ters. The value of butter, cheese and milk,
returned in 1850, according to the estimates
of Prof. Tucker, exceeded eighty million dol
lars. To this must be added an equal sum as
the value of cattle slaughtered for the market
and the value of the labor of nearly million
yoke ofworking oxen at the preser time, es-
timating their labor for year at $2Oper yoke,
the aggregate value of this yeArlJ product ex-
ceeds one hundred and eighty million dol
lars.
There is but one agricultural product Of
equal importance-th of Indian corn. To
the aggregate thus stated must be added the
value of the cattle themselves, which estima-
ted at $40 per head, amounts tonearly $780,
0OO, 900. Upon the basis the census ofls50,
this interest involved value of products Of
property equal to $40O,OOO,O0O. The aver
age increase in ten years may be safely esti-
mated at 20 per centum, and this would make
the same values equal for the present year to
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