New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-06
STATEN ISLAND.
THE W0RK or THE CATTLE COMMISSION

The New-York State Cattle Commission removed
recently from No. % Fulton-St. Brooklyn to No
169 Chambers-st., this city. Augustus Dennlst0n,
the state agen, in speaking Of the work of the
Commission curing the last year, SAID " Inc Com
mission came into existence on February ~
1879, by the appointment . OF General N. q.
Then pleuro-pneumOna was epidemic IN the STARE,
especially on Long Island. By direction of the
Commission many entire herds of cattle were ne
stroycd, and IN many places the plague was entirely
stamped out. Up to the present time LOU cattle
have been officially killed. Of which 700 or 500 were
III the vicinity OF Bllssvlile, l.. /. During the
last wear there have been very few cases OF
peurO-pneumODia and most OF thos, were I'OIadlc
In March the disease broke out IN the herd or A >
Baldwin, Patterson, Putnam County, ana III Was
necessary to XIII wcntysx of his cows four or i've
having already died 1t was Thought that the as
ease was breaking out In Delaware County, Dut
upon careful investigation by the veterinary sur
geOns they declared tnat there were 10 traces OF IT,
About the only places you VIII ma genuine cases
of plcuro- pneumonia at present are III New ioTh
CITY, Long Island City and the suburbs OF Brook
lyn, and nowhere Is il at all epidemic. The custom
among the dairymen around New YORK Is, the instant
"a refuses her food, to rush her on 10 tle
butchers and sell her tor Strengthening Tor lear she
NAV develop pleuro-pne umOnla or some other dis
ease" -. o,
"Well, no. | think, all things considered III Is
probably best. PieurO-pneumOna Is 4 lung disease,
and either in its first stages or after 1t has passed
into the chrome state 1t causes no bad effects III Inc
meat IL is only in It's acute form, Whcn IL causes
great feverlshness In the cow that he meat sIouiC
not be used have known cases where a portion OF
the lung of a cow having been destroyed Dy pIeuro-
pneumonia, and having become encS sted mas re-
manned this way for years until size was slaugh-
tered Tor her meat. In some cases COWS with TINS
disease become larger anu fattcn up III gOOu shape
for killing. We have to great caution ID h'int-
ing Tor pleueo-pneumonIa as the stock ralscfs, Oh
ali things, do not want 1T known thai there LAS
been a case on their farm, as 1t would rum ther
business. And also when we lind case 1t Is our
general custom to destroy the entire nero ishu Pu'
lie farm and all its buildings under ere
quarantine This Is not reiished by the
farmer so if he thinks that lie has
COW with the disease kills her as quietly as pos
slble As first, we had large corps OI veterinary
surgeons but now we only employ one as he Is
needed.
Governor Cornell said in his last message;
While the cattle disease known as DleulO-pAeu-
monia which formerly menaced tue farmers III tnls
state is not entirely eradcated II has been con
fined TO "A limited area, and seems to De gIadua ~
dIsapyearing' The Governor may well say graNd-
aly as C seems almost impossible to entirely eTadi-
cate the disease although 1t was done on the Mon
tauk Range, III Suffolk County, where aG one Time
Ii sho ed itself in its worst form" , ,
An appropriation for The Commission Oh 4o0Ooo
was made Dy Une Legislature III the spring Oh 1851
and il has not yet been exhausted.