Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-10-25
THE CATTLE PLAGUE.
Prof. LAW Of Cornell Cuiversity Offers
Some sugEestions.

Prof. James Law, the celebrated Vet
erinary Professor of Cornell University,
being questioned concerning the pleuro-
pneumonia now creating some excite
ment among Western cattle-breeders,
said that he had something to say on the
subject His remarks summed up are
as follows:
1st. The plague having been allowed
to reach the West, it is no longer safe to
purchase stock cattle that have been
carried by rail or other public convey
ance; that have been in public sales, mar
kets, fairs or other assemblages of cattle,
or that have been in contact with cat
tie SO exposed.
Cd. Stock cattle should be taken only
from weD-known herds that have had no
deaths nor sickness for six months, nor
any additions made to their numbers in
that length of time. nor any contact
with adjacent Or passing herds.
3d. Stock cattle should not be carried
home by rail or other public conveyance,
unless these shall have been first thor.
oughly cleansed and disinfected, and un-
| less the train has carried no other cattle
on that trip.
4th. Any stock cattle carried home by
| rail, etc, as above, even when this is
done under disinfectant precautions,
should lie carefully secluded in quar-
antine, Under separate attendance, for
| three months, until they are found non
Injecting.
5th. Butchers and dealers handling
fat stock destined for slaughter, should
on no account allow them or their prod
ucts to come in contact with stock cat
| tie.
9th. All public carrying companies
should cleanse all cattle-carrying cars
and boats, and disinfect them with a
lime whitewash containing four ounces
of chloride Of lime to each gallon of
water.
7th. These precautions should be kept
up until by Federal and State action the
plague shall have been stamped out,
should this still be possible.
Our Steamship Captains too Reckless.
A Captain in the Royal Navy may
certainly be supposed to speak with au
tfority on the dangers of ocean racing
In letter to the London Times, Cap.
tain James W. Gambler, R. N, writes
II have recently twice crossed the At
lantic, in both instances on steamers O.
great tonnage and the highest speed
and I have gone down to my cabin a
night, to turn n,with a feeling tha
nothing but the Providence which sit
up aloft, and in 9eoking after poor Jack
has to perform the same duty for passen
gers, could avert fatal accident If an,
vessel approached ours at the same
speed. Through dark, thick nights
amidst binding storms of hail, still W.
drove ahead at fifteen or sixteen knot,
seventeen or eighteen miles roughly
with the most reckless disregard O
what we might chance to meet"
| Captain Gambler suggests that Ger
tain degree Of safety would be attained
if insurance companies we're to declin.
to insure these ocean steamers, unles.
all alike adopted certain track, and i
the vessels were to be mulcted by thu
companies if found out of the track, un
less able to give satisfactory reason
such as broken-down engines or th
like. The writer further suggests tha
as a safeguard against the danger 9
collision, the entire upper deck shoult
Ike constructed as raft which woult
float off when the vessel sank, plan b,
declares wholly feasible. Considerin,
the vast proportions which ocean .trave
has now attained, this is a questio,
which interests large part of the pub
lie, and suggestions from such sourc,
deserve attention.