Excerpt from Reports on the Diseases of Cattle in the United States: Made to the Commissioner of Agriculture, With Accompanying Documents The lung plague of cattle, developed alone as the result of contagion, recedes and is extinguished wherever the people are fully informed of its origin and nature, and measures based on such knowledge are adopted and enforced. Americans can learn this from Massachusetts. It is, however, the most insidious and the most deceptive of all malig nant bovine disorders. It penetrates and travels far and wide, where unsuspecting farmers and dairymen are far from skilled in the veterin ary art. It kills, and yet there are survivors which resist all further attacks, and in the course of time they tend to form a small but useful nucleus of insusceptible stock, which enables the people to, go on, though in poverty, and hope for better luck. Every one strives, but in secret, lest the publication of facts should prevent the sale and transfer of unhealthy or infected stock. Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia, furnish wide fields in which to determine the truth of these statements. In perusing the history of contagious pleuro-pneumonia, it will be found that the experiences of the New World are but repetitions of those recorded by Europeans. 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.