The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-03-24


STATEMENT OF DEALERS THE PLEURo-pNEU-
MONA SCARE GREAT HUMDUG--GENERAL
pArRIcK's ORDER DEPRECATED
PoUGHKEEpsIE March %, 1870.
Cattle dealers along the Hudson River are severely
criticsing General NJ r. patricks proclamation rela
tive TO the conveyance of mich and other store
animals by railway and by water. Judging from all
reports the pleuro pneumonia is a colossal
humbug, especially so far any county on the Hud-
son River is concerned, and cattle do not hest
tate to openly and boldly denounce it such. add
ing that the unwarrantcd publicity given to in
New York city and its enyirons. where COWS fed
upon swil mix and posonously aduiterated food is
gradually undermining tho cattle trade of the
try for no cause whatever. Cate of all kinds
to this city from the western part of the State the
Car loads and hcrdcd i'll cattle yards in East
Poughkeepsie. Thither reporter proceeded to have
talk with the cattle dealers in regard to the matter
STATEMENTS OF THE DEALERS.
Harvey H. Owen, of the Bulls Head Hotel, said
that the average arrival Of cattle there daily is about
thirtyfve head. and they from Ulster, Sullivan
and Orange counties. There has not been single
Of pleuro-pneumonia any other disease
among them for year or more. He has talked with
farmers far and about the matter, and he has
yet to find of them who has heard of case of
Orange counties.
Leander NJ. Young has just arrived at Bulls Head
from Sullivan county with drove OF mich COWS,
working cattle, &c. He says the dealers in Sullivan
have handled five six thousand head the past
winter and there was not single case OF plcuro-
looked better nor healthier than they have the
past winter.
A. Glow Of Oneida county is also at Bulls Head
with drove OF cattle twenty-one head in all having
arrived about week ago. The heaviest dealer III
Oneida county is d. g. Drummond, and all OF his
caff la are Of n!
monia having appeared among them. Mr.. Glow had
also been through Jefferson county, and there too,
cattle never looked better, there being signs of
any disease whatever OF any kind In closing the in
terview he said
This pleuro pneumonia scare is the biggest hum
bug ever heard Of Why, you go three hundred
miles from here and get of at every station you
come to. and defy you to find single case. 1t is
hurting tho business seriously, tor the silles
that stump-tail COWS around New York have been
sick"
Mr. D. Alycrson is here with a drove of cattle from
st. Lawrence county He has been in the business
over three years and he is yet to the first of
pleuro-pneumonia.
ever
He too deprecates the order of General Patrick,
and thinks if the whole matter is investigated hon
estly and fairly the result would be such that Gen
eral Patriot would quickly recall his proclamation.
BIG HUMBUG
The heaviest dealers III Duchess county. not only
men who buy and sell cattle, but also well-to-do
farmers who raise fat cattle on their farms FOR home
consumption all egree that the pleuro-pncumonia
scare ii big humbug. calculated to do q
vast deal of mischief. Farmers from Ulster
Sullivan and Putnam counties who were
in town yesterday term the pleuro- pneu-
monia foolish panic, for which there no
foundation. From kockland, Greene and Columbia
counties reports show that there no cases of
pleuro pneumonia in those counties. All agree that
General Patrck's order prohibiting and forbiddng
the conveyance of any mich cows or other store
cattle from the counties OF Putnam, Duchess, Rock.
land, Orange and Ulster should have been issued
with the names OF those counties omitted. As il
stands it Is not only useles blow at the freghtng
business on the Hudson. but also Affects seriously
thousands of dollars worth of business u channel
where the tabooed disease shows no signs whatever
of existence. No cattle are shipped up the Hudson,
nor tor that matter down the Hudson to any great
extent; but soon tine droves from Western New
York reach tidewater they go cast into Massachu-
sets and Connecticut.