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Excerpt from Message From the President of the United States: Transmitting Documents Received From the Commissioner of Agriculture, in Reply to Resolution of the 7th Instant, Relative to Contagious Diseases of Cattle
Sir: In the report of the veterinary department of the privy council Of Great Brit ain for the year 1879, which report has just been received, on page 7 appears the fol lowing: The most notable event of, the past year in connection with the trade In foreign animals was the removal of the United States of America from the let of countries from which cattle could be imported as healthy, owing to the landing a dif feront times during the year of animals affected with pleuro-pneumonia. The first known such importation is said to have been made from the steamship Dominion from Portland, Me, about January 14. Next, the detection of the same disease in the cargo of the Ontario afforded further evidence of its existence among cattle in the United States. Cargoes of cattle, among which pleuro-pneumonia was detected, continued to arrive, until finally an order was passed (february 10) the effect of which was to cause the slaughter of all cattle from the States at the place of landing in Great Brit ain. It is perhaps worth noticing in passing that Prof. W. Williams, of Edinburgh, one of those called upon by the authorities to examine the Ontario lungs, says: Since first arrival of Ontario with cattle others have arrived at Liverpool, and I have ex amined the lungs said by privy council inspectors to have pleuro-pneumonia, and sat iehed all who have seen them that no pleuro-pneumonia has arrived here from America; indeed, every one is surprised that such a gross mistake should have been made. (same report, p. As you will remember, my recent investigation into this matter shows that our ports of Baltimore, Philadelphia, Jersey City, and New York are the only ones that are in our infected districts. In this report of the privy council the only ports referred to by name as having sent diseased cattle are Portland and Boston. This is most strange, and if true means that we have pleuro-pneumonia among our western herds, as the animals shipped from the two ports come in every case from the West, not passing through or anywhere near the district which we know is infected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
