New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-14
MAssAcHUsETTscAr DIsEA Sc.

If The farmers Of New.Engiand had nothing eketc
DO thankful for there was st ioas call them 70 Va
Glide IN their prayers On Thanksgiving Day banbls
aud hearty thanks that tho cattle dssenper was stayed
Whist might have been the effects TO the country Il
such speedy action had been taksnby tho Comnis
Goners to stop the oontagion, no can cay. That
they might have been terribly severe il certain and
hat tbs rational loss in neat stock might have amount
ed to millions Of dollars quite probable. What pleaW-
pneuuona might have done in this country may be in-
fsrred from what il has done and IL doing abroad:
and that man Is simply foolish who Questions the
policy which the Massachusetts, Commissioners havc
pusued. IT, through ignorance, prejudice, or cuPidty,
tho farmers ia the recently OF Asssachn-
set;s were willing TO tsmper with peuro-pneumonis
and suffer II to 90 on with lie dreul work until an ire
parable injury had been inflicted on the country there
Is no reasou why the more intelligent Commissioners
should have pursued like insane policy. Becawe
the cattle owners could not zee the use in isoating
infected herds and sayirg infected cattle there is no
reason why the Cattle Commissioners should have
shirked their duty. In plain truth they would
have deserved the execution Of the coantsy II they bad
been ono whit less sparing with tho knife.
or relaxed their viglant quarantine One iots. Our
frerp did not and perhaps never may realize the tor
Tble jeopardy in which they stood; bat they ever %
they will thank their fortunes that Maseachuscts &C.
sc.od suc, capable and courageous men 10 treat To
sIideic. The Summer is past and gono, and tho ooG
we. days of Autumn with i, and fears that peur-
pneumonia might break ont have happily not been rea-
lived There eees every reason TO believe that Tho
disease has been either ersdicated or 20 perfectly
brought under satiecon that the embargo on Easess
cattle u,sy safely be raised. Tbs great wes, always
no arfo customer Cor b!ooded stock. but which has
absolutely bought nothing this year, may now freely
admit our Gne Eastern stock within her boundaries
without fear of Infection But becasse such s the case,
we trus, that neither Western nor Eastern arners viii
forge. ne warning they have bad. PlsuroTneumonia
is distinctly contsdous and no, epidemic dieesse.
To spread from animal to animal there mux 30
sc.usl coatac. between the healthy and dis
eand. or with aome infected article, such
Or STRAW manure, clothing, fodder. The remedy,
then, ia very plain. As soon as the dsesse is dis
covered in herd separate the sck from tie wet as
ONCE and keep them 20 separated that the contagioR
cannot be communicated By this simple plaa fafmess
nay rid ,heselves OF all anxiety for the salty Of
held Aet one thing be RENE nbered, yix that darks
cloee dang and dirty stables na.shy pastures, end ex'
yosurs Of bess uBshetered 10 the yicisstados Of
American Winter, feed and spread Tot only pleuro-
rneuuopi, bat other dseesea 20 which cattle are sub
jet.
We are pleased to see, from circular d tho Msss-
chuse.se Cattle Commissioners, just issued, that our
projection TO examine and quarantine imported nesk
stock ia officially Endorsed. The Commissioners recou-
mend that having become satisfied that tho disease
was brough. from foreign ports into our country, end
believing that II has been extermased here, and aax.
ous that every possible means shoad DO adopted foe
the prevention OF tho future ntrodrcsicn Of dsease
70 dangerous and contagious" they recommend tase
tho Agricultural Societies should join In petaiooiag
Congress to pass suitable Quarantine laws 70 every
saUA possible contingency.