Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22
PIeurO-Pneumonia.

Hon. James Wilson of Iowa, in his late
speech in the National House of Representa-
tives in favor of the bill establishing "bu.
reau of animal industry" said
| asked man from Brooklyn who had
made an inspection, "What do you know per
sonally about Brooklyn? How many COWS
there 2" "IIow many have been exposed ?"
-Four thousand" How many sick now ?"
Give hundred" "What do you do with the
sick ones 2? He answered, 'We send them
to the butcher" Now, that looks like an
outrageous proposition, to send sick COW to
the butcher. But let me tell you the tempta-
ton is fearful. All man may have in the
world may be in his stock of dairy COWS with
which he furnishes his village with milk
These men learn to detect the approach OF
that disease before the most expert veterina.
rian could detect it, and they send their COWS
TO the butchers. The system pursued by dali
rymen is this They buy fat COW giving
milk, keep her fat, and the moment they see
any approach of pleuro pneumonia they send
her to the market. That is what is done now
in most of the old Countries that is what is
done in New York, done in Brooklyn, and is
done here. l went out the other day to
place within riAe-shot of this capitol and saw
three animals dissected. One had been kept
there for experimental purposes. Two 9TH
ers had been bought. One had been bought
three days before, having been found on the
commons by trader for beef She had acute
pleuro pneumonia. And the men who were
successful in eradicating that disease in Mass
aohusetts, the members of the commission OF
that state, were there. They recognized the
disease in moment. No other disease under
the sun will produce such lung as pleuro-
pneumonia will. 1t is not seen anywhere
else. Those men saw it in an instant. You
cannot tell the beef animals affected by pleu-
ro-pneumonia the first stages of the disease
from any other beef, But l do not want to
eat it. The future will disclose what human
ills follow it, We must put ourselves in 9TH
or peoples places always before we Judge
them. 1t is difficult for the states to eradi
cate pleuro- pneumonia. The policy of the
states has been to pay small price. We
want to authorize the payment of such lib.
eral price as will bring the diseased animal
from its hiding We want to have the dis.
ease stamped out speedily and offectualy
We can keep it here few years longer and
If we do 1t ID only question of time when it
will go to the west, and it will then work such
reformation in our treasury department here
that the hundreds of millions there will van
ish very quickly If you strike the great cattle
interest. Let me mention this as an iustra.
ton: You have heard of the soft corn in the
west this fall. What has been the effect of
it? The traders could not sell so much be-
cause the east could not buy so much. The
eastern manufacturer could not sell SO much
because we had not the money to pay for it.
The result was that the operative in the east.
ern factories went out of employment be-
cause we had soft corn in the west Those
rich western states are the great producing
and buying states. They make money, and
make it fast And we spend it, 1t goes easi
and south. We do not keep it. The class Of
men in the west who may have soft corn are
the mon who did not Craze their land will
cattle II you strike at the cattle industry
we will come TO havo soft corn all along the
line 1t is an utter impos5ibilty to maintain
the fertility of the richest prairie without
keeping cattle on the farm and il that in
dustTy becomes paralyzed aud crippled Il
will take from the resources of the United
States enough to turn the balance of trad
against us.