The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-20
OUR FARM BUDGET.
An Eminent Veterinarian interviewed
Regarding Cattle Diseases.
tome Remarkable cows-The Wages OF
Farm LabOr-Farm Notes, Etc
Legislation Regarding Cattle Disease.

Legislation Regarding Cattle Disease.
DIR. Charles p Lyman, the eminent vet
erinarian. who watched the landing of
American cattle in Liverpool last summer
and whose report on the subject is now be-
fore Congress in connection with other inn
portant documents laid before both Houses
by Commissioner lie Due, was interviewed
in Washington last week regarding the al
legged cattle disease and the disturbance
~created in England about the importation OF
SEATTLE. He was asked:
care you sure that any cattle infected
with pleuro-pneumonia were ever landed in
England from this country
mo. Nor are all the British authorities
sure of it."
"Out of nearly 1000 beasts landed and
examined in London during parts Of July
and August, in noone of which could plenro-
pneumonia be detectedin the living animal
kthe Inspector of the Veterinary Department
of the Privy Council condemned, after post
mortem examination Of the lungs, six cases.
These six cases have been traced back, and
in all except one it has been found that the
. animals undoubtedly came from the West,
and over lines of rail which are entirely
I north of any localities that are known to be
contaminated. the fact q part OF their
tourney eastward was generally made
through portions of Canada. This. OF course,
means that we have this dreaded cattle
scourge established among our Western
herds; that Chicago, Buffalo. Albany, Boston
or Portland are deceased centers, or else the
disease is not pleurO-pneumOnia at all.
aft pleuro-pneumonia exists in the West,
or there are diseased centers in and about
l the points named through which the cattle
pass on their journey eastward. the lnforma-
! ton now in possession of the Department OF
Agriculture will insure its exact location
after little time for examination.
= WrIn relation to the last phase of the mat
ter all that can at present be said is that the
particular lungs exhibited present in their
\ fresh state and to the naked eye. all the
II LESSONS of the contagious disease but on a
very small scale, and in addition there Is
another lesion that is constantly present in
these condemned lungs which has never
been described by any authority or noticed
by any of our veterinarians TO be constant
or even a known accompaniment OF the dis
ease in question. What bearing this fact
may have upon this part OF the question a
further and more minute investigation OF
the subject can alone decide. Professor
William Williams, of Edinburgh, COM
-. paratiye patholOgist of worldwide celebrity,
asserts that the lungs examined by MN
LESSONS of the disease, but that the changes
noticed were caused by bronchitis
'sSince nv report was written" he added,
al have continued my investigation in this
country. and not the slightest indication OF
acknowledgements among cattle can be
found in the West nor outside of the small
district in the East in which 1t was located
by myself last year"
The Doctor insisted that a National law on
the subject is necessary, and is, In fact, the
only enactment foreign governments will
respect On this head he said: II asked
Professor Brown, suppOsing drafts of cattle
were made from our healthy Western dis
tricts. transported over lines OF rail which
were entirely away from our infested dis
/. tricts In cars used for these and no other
cattle, if inspectors could guarantee that they
had not been in the same yard, or mixed
" with any other cattle on the route or at the
port of embarkation, and were healthy at
time of shipment and inspection at the
port of debarkatiOn should show that cargo
after cargo coming under these regu-
lations should be landed free
from pleuro-pneumonia, would the embargo
be raised in favor of cattle so inspected from
Auch port? To this Professor Brown an
swered that even il England were disposed
to remove the restriction from any one port
under certain methods of inspections, as he
understood it, the United States was not, as
matters now stood, able to prevent cattle
coming to said port from any point that
people chose 10 send them. told him that
Thought the matter could undoubtedly be
arranged with the State authorities and Rail
road Companies so as to be perfectly safe.
He intimated that this would be too loose
an arrangement to give England much con-
fidence and further said that he he did not
know what there was to prevent diseased
OF infected animal from being sent at any
time from the infected Eastern District
directly to the parts in the West
from which these drafts were being made.
The Government of the United States, as a
Government, had not yet shown the
slightest interest in the matter, and that, in
the absence of any National laws relating to
the movements of animals exposed exposed
to or infected with contagious diseases, he
should not advise any change from theiI
present methods. Here a representation
was made setting forth the sovereignty OF
States and their powers-that State could
make any laws upon the subject that She
thought proper, providing it did not con
fiict with the Constitution of the United
States. In answer to this the opinion giver
was that decidedly, in this matter, these
B could not take the place of National laws
that it would be highly impracticable fo
Great Britain to recognize independent Stat,
governments while dealing with the United
States"