Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-06
ms sA1vee Of THE o.ssAse.
Piens- Pneumonia Clearly Described aud
1ssOrtgin aMd Progress Givcn.
New York World,

The people Of two henisphercs are lust
u0w excited o yer TIRES Threatened ceDts.
x,dne tseaSes-tbe y ~ Sd called ,'olack
pest " OF eastern plague. that wss brought
into Russis 10 Q silk shswl from the battle
deld Of Turkey by q soldier, and thnt Is
sweeping of more than 80 per cent. Of the
'nbsoitsuts Of the lures OF, four villages T.,
wblchl thus '6r H. hss been cobfinSd the
second, . dlsesse among neat cattle known
10 rinderpest. aud the third u disorder also
affecting cattle and termed p~leurO-pneu-
nonta. Late advice hopefully affirm that
he eastern plsgue 10 Russia 10 nearly ex.
tinct, and the German government has
taken measures to stamp out the cattle de.
strOytnR rinderpest now prevalent in it's
borders. The present chief concern, there.
tore, OF the agriculthralists, the cattle grow
ers. and the cattle dealers, Of Great Britain
and America is the very much dreaded but
no41sAllya dteadfdlR dtaeAsSs knONn2a q o0nta-
xiOus pleurO. pneumonia In respect TO this
latter disease Z World reporter c0pyeIsed
With q gentleman whose isc,lities FOR get
ting correct information. both by Observa-
ton n 10 sding, ere exceptional. To tue
question: What is contagious pleuro-
pneumonia" be said: when eminent
veterinary surgeons and physicians .rs not
able to agree upon definition of this dis
inc Tia con,aoions nnaiity = sc.1caiv haI
comes AZ outsider to exnress : decided
opinion. But Mr.. Ceorve r. Turner .
| well known Eoelish writer upon the cattle
traffic and cattle disease, says that pleuro-
pneumonia y a,local disease, confined 10
the lungs and pleura. hut accompanied by.
sympathetic fever, readily communicable
by the sexes. but not hitherto proved to be
SO by incubation OF by any form
OF mediate coDtagiOn. Mr.. Turner
further says that both pleuro.
pneumonia and fo~ot.and-mouth disease-da-
ing respectively from 1870 and lS39--are
now naturallzed in Great Britain, and his
statement ls corroborated by regularly pub.
lished official reports. In August last
pleuro-pneumonis was reported as existing
IN forty counties, and also in London, Ed
inoorough and Aberdeen and In September
y vas prevailing IN iorty.tvo COUNTIES, IN
which there we're J52 cases, including 45
fresh outbreaks, and destroyed III cattle.
Inc dise sse, ~ observed 10 this country,
appears TO have presented different phases,
anu possibly Wa not III all cases the true or
genuine pienro pneumonia. BY turning 20
the report OF the united States commission
er OF agriculture Tor 1871, page 400, you
VAL get an elaborate description OF the
disease by Veterinary Surgeon A. A. Hol'
combe, Of this state, who says it was hrst
discovered IN Central Europe aSout scen-
fury Z that il is u sp, clic disease pecu-
lar to b%oyines, Affecting the lungs ana
pieura: that during it. curse II generates
a specific virus, capable Of iuoculatl, &
health, ianlma,s vi the exms .pecies that
the period Vi incubation Is reckunet al rrom
Twelve 10 sixty days that the vi. aliiy vi III.
v.rus i. great. lasting ~ nel,.ues for several
months F; that II may he carried 10y the air a
uhtance Vi three hundred feet, aud by means
uf iuiecled clolh,nx, hay, straw, cars aud
leamboats IL long di.tance.. According to
EgeneralIy received authorities il dates back
10 l765. and was then confined 10 cattle in
u'ouu.ainous regions, but finally sprean
lover Europe, reaching Holland m 1889.
Belgium in 1887 and kugland in 1871. i
IalaI,tv in Luudun during the wiuler of 1859
land 1860 was most alarming, carving of
tabou, 95 per cent. of the dairy cows If the
.%ue,ropoiis.' ~
How and when vas it introduced into
the United States"
"ruere is sune mention of it as early n
ltlS43. when IL IS sfirmpd it was introduced
|lu,o New Jersey md New YORK by COW
limporl.d from Germany. but the tirsl nm
break to attract any atleuliun. 10 TINS couu-
cry was in May, 1859, in u herd OF cows on
ne farm OF Col w. w. Cheoery. of Bel
mont, Mass, an importer and breeder OF
Hols,eln cattle. Two of his imported cat
tie we're sick on their arrival Ut Boston,
ind died u few days sf,erward. From this
herd it spread over a large part of Msssa-
chuset,s. Eleven months after its first ap-
pearance the legislature passed an act Great
ing q. commission with. authority to stamp
putsthe disease by killing all cattle that had
been exposed To Infection, but it was moi
eradicated uutl about the year 1865, The
stamping.out process cost The state nearly
81, 900, mainly for compensation for The
cattle killed"
"Arather costly experiment with import.
ed Ganle.a Add Are these Hols,eiu cove a
| desirable acquisition for this counlrv."
"Weil, yes, but not ut the cost OF any
contagious cattle disease. Since the death
OF Col Chenely, otMassachuselts. who Was
NANNY nssrumeota'tn introducing HoIs'ei0
| cattle into this country, aud whose cYhihi-