The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-19

has-since maintained her safety.
New York became infected in 1S43
by a COW from England and from sever
al importations since to New Jersey,
the disease has spread nearly 800 miles
south, involving the counties adjacent
Of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
ingtou.
Nothing was done in New York to
suppress this plague, until rumors of the
existance of this disease around New
York city reached England, when Prof.
McEachran of Montreal, was sent to
investigate and on his report of the
prevalence of the Lung plague'' in
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland and the District of Columbia,
American cattle were prohibited;
which order was afterward modified 30
that all cattle from ports of the United
States were allowed to land at abbatoirs
specified, and be slaughtered within ten
days after their arrival. This order is
exceedingly hard on exporters of cattle
involving a loss of from 80 to SEQ a
head owing to sbrinkage due to hard
ships of travel, and often greater loss
when the market is at an ebb.
The authorities of New York aroused
at last by the restrictions put on the
trade of England, appointed Prof. Law
TO make an investigation and on his
report, Gen. NJ. r. Patrick was ap-
pointed commissioner harch, 10, 1879,
with full authority TO stamp out the
disease.
He organized a corps of veterinarians
and in IA months 1900 infected animals
were slaughtered in and about New
York.
AT this time the appropriation for
this purpose being used up. the work
ceased, owing to the unwillingness OF
the governor to.advance the necessary
funds to continue the work until the
next meeting of the legislature.
The disease had been stamped out OF
five counties, and only two counties
still harbored the pestilence. Governor
Cornell was elected in the fall of 1879,
and owing to his mastery inactivity,
although the legislature appropriated
$50, 600, to continue the work. the good
work done lapsed, and the counties
freed of this plague were allowed to be
again overrun without let or hinder.
auce to INSCRIPTIONS dealers, whose
main profits consisted in getting hold OF
an infected dairy cheap and selling
them over the country.
1t cost New York S62, 900, up to the
time Governor Cornell took his seat.
New Jersey followed New York's
lead and enacted similar laws in 1873
70, and appointed Gen. Sterling, who in
one year slaughtered many infected
herds and had the pestilence in check
when The Legislature of 1S79-s0, dur
ing an economical fit repealed the law.
The work done in New Jersey cost
$4,000.
Pennsylvania has enacted laws but
never fully enforced them. owing to the
fact of there being an appropriation
to pay for diseased animals slaughtered.
Maryland has enacted laws and sent
agents to New York to observe the
work done, and their report closed the
work in that state.
During the last year the calf rade
from Maryland and Pennsylvania has
assumed very. threatning proportions,
indeed it has been found that one calf
came direct from an infected herd,
neal Baltimore, Md. This calf was
traced to Chicago and there lost sight
Of. The Treasury cattle commission
are using every exertion to check this
trade but being without authority,
make little progress. The federal
authority made an appropriation a year
ago, and authorized the secretary of
the treasury to appoint a commission to
investigate where contagious pleuro
pneumonia existed, and the necessary
measures to stamp it out, and their re-
port was the basis for a number OF
bills which were presented to Congress
last winter. there it ended. MANY
congressman no doubt believe the
Treasury cattle commissions report.
vet. some were incredulous that such a
disease could exist in our midst so long
and the people not know IL. Again
other legislators clothed themselves
under the mantle of estate rightsn and
assumed that each state was sovereign
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