Connecticut western news., 1879-06-11
Pleuro-Pneumonia.

The Springfield Republican says that pleuro-pneumonia is an imported disease, and. since 1t established itself in England
 m 1S42, has caused @ loss of $500. 900 900 to Brltl sh farmers. It has also been as expen. sive III Australia, since It invaded that island continent Tn 1S58 and is so widely extended over the great Australian cattle ranges that gill hope of getting rid of It is ease in 1859, but stamped it out tn clGht years, after killing nearly 1000 cattle. Connecticut has rooted 1t out several times but the malady now has hold in the southwes part of tho state and has been traced down along the AtlantiG sea board as far as North Carolina. New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania are viRer- ously at work to destroy the contaRion. and at recent conference of thelr omeials at Philadelphia, it was stated that pleuro- pneumonia has been raging in the eastern part of the United States for S6 years, and IS now quite violent. The great West was reported free from 1t. as it exports instead of importing cattle. But 1t gets its blood ed stock largely from the East and its vast herds are liable to be infected by so slight a cause as freight cars in which sick au- finals have been transported,
 Medical Inspector Qrexler of Allegheny, Pa, attributes the origin of pleuro.pnen- monia to the exposure of the cattle to draughts of air, as they are whirled by car loads to the sea-board from weetern shipping points. Packed into cars so thick
 
 foot ID their misery, they are hurried along for days to gether without food or water. President George T. Angell of the Massa- chusetts society for the prevention of cruelty to animals estimates that 6OO,OOO cattle, sheep and swine annually lose their livsu m this iuhuman passage to market from the West. These facts were brought out by Senator McPnerson of New Jersey Tn his speech eloquently championing the rights of the poor dumb brutes, as well NS of humanity, when the bill to regulate cat, tie transportation was up in the senate the other day, aud when the matter comes up again at the winter session 1t will doubtle receive further ventilation. England pre- hibits the conveyance of cattle for more than 20 hours without supplies of food and water. A number of our states place the limit at 24 hours, but as they have no lur- isdiction beyond their limits the cattle often go all the way from Chicago to New Yorx without stoppage or refreshment, the shippers not wishing to pay to II at the ex- pensive stock-yards kept up by the ral- roads. It is a clear case for the exercise or national authority to protect the nations beef and beef-eaters. s
 Since the sick cattle on the steamship Ontario created so much alarm Tn England last January there has been considerable effort on this side of the water to decry tho disease as all moopshme. But the British have had enough experience with pleuro- we regulate our internal transportation on principles, dictated equally by economy; health and humanity, and root out the dis. ease where it rages m the East, the sooner and the more freely we shall be readmitted to Engands nd r vs C. stock A %arssts Ws can nually, if the world has confidence in thelr healthfulness. and vigorous measures just now will both end the lung fever and put money in our pockets.