Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-27
THE CHANGERS DELIGHT.

a Feto of Comm issio3aer lie Dues Remarks
A Brilliant Future for the department.
of A9rfcuItWre-The Cattle Disease and
Chicken Cholera.
Commissioner LIE Due, in his annual re-
port, will strongly recommend that a new
building for the department of agriculture
be erected. Tho plans OF the proposed
structure have already been finished. In ap-
pearance the building, as shown in the plan,
reminds one of the pictures of the Syden-
ham Crystal Palace. The Offices and work
rooms of the department are arranged upon
the four sides of hollow parallelogram 900
feet in length by 800 feet in depth, the in.
closed space to be made a conservatory for
the preservation of specimens of plants and
trees valuable for economic or ornamental
purposes which can be grown in any portion
of the country. 1t is proposed to place these
in the space allotted to the States where they
ON be tie most easily and profitably grown.
An exhibition OF agricultural implements to
be furnished by the manufacturers is also
provided for.
Commissioner LIE Duo will use his influ-
ence in opposition to the scheme of the stock
raisers and cattle dealers to get an appro-
priation from Congress for the investigation
of diseases Of animals. This work the
Commissioners says has been progressing un-
der the auspices of his department for the
last two or three years, and has been per-
formed by the most renowned and skillful
veterinary surgeons In the land. The origi-
Nal work is in fact nearly finished, and all
that the proposed commission could do
would be to go over the same ground again.
AS a result of the work performed by the
agents OF the department bill is now pend
| ing before the Senate committee on agricul-
| ture embodying the remedial suggestions of
| the gentlemen who have conducted the
| investigation. This bill was introduced last
| April by Senator Johnston, who says he will
| endeavOr to secure its passage at the ap-
| preaching session of Congress. BY its pro-
visions it is made an offense punishable by
fine and imprisonment for any person to de-
| liver for transportation, or for any railroad
official to receive for transportation, live
cattle affected with any infectious disease,
and especially with contagious pleuro-pneu-
monia. Sec. provides for q commission
| to be composed of tbs commissioner of ag-
riculture, the second assistant secretary Of
state, and the second assistant secretary of
the treasury, whose duty it shall be TO take
| measures for the suppression of infections
and contagious diseases of DO
mestic animals. Appropriations to be made
| by Congress are to be awarded to the several
| States which shall signify their acceptance Ct
| the rules and regulations formed by the
board, in sums sufficient to purchase all dis.
eased anlmBls at two thirds the value Of
| sound animals. which diseased animals are
to be slaughtered. Commissioner LIE Duo
| says the investigations of the agents of the
| department have resulted in the discovery of
| the present territorial limits of the pleuro-
pneumonia, and have practically proved that
| the disease is net remedIable. It is gradu-
| ally, but very slowly, extending south, being
| communicated from farm to farm. Its
eradication, he believes, may be easily ac-
complished, but 1t can only be done by kill
| ing all diseased animals and all who have
been exposed to the diseases. A compare.
| lively small sum will be sufficient to accom-
| plish this now. Among the later results of
| the work of the veterinary surgeons working
under the auspices of the department of ag-
| rculture, and which have not yet been pub
| lished, are the following: DR.. D. Z. Salmon
has made some valuable discoveries in regard
| to chicken cholera. Prof. James Law has
been experimenting to see if diluted prep
sration of the virus of the swine plague will
not give the animal slight attack of the dis
ease, resulting in the exemption of the animal
| from the more serious attack. He has met with
| only partial success. DR.. II. j. Detmers, on the
other hand, has been experimenting with
representatives., and believes he has met with
success. There is no remedy for the dis
ease, but the discovery of a preventative, ie
| it is effective, will save many millions an
nually.
A new disease has also been discovered.
| Its presence was not suspected until it was
noticed that the English government
"scheduled'' American cattle and sheep. 1t
is known as apthous fever, or the foot and
mouth disease. Sheep, cattle, hogs horses
and poultry are all liable to the attacks of
this disease, and as long as it exists animals
shipped from American ports are liable to be
placed at disadvantage in the European
markets.