This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1865 Excerpt: ... The contagious nature of this virulent malady is incontestibly proved by an overwhelming amount of evidence, which I cannot adduce at full length here, but which may be classified under the following heads: Firstly. The constant spread of the disease from countries in which it rages to others which, previously to the importation of diseased animals, have been perfectly free. This may be proved with regard to England, where it was carried in 1842 by affected animals from Holland. Twelve months after, it spread from England to Scotland by some cattle sold at All-Hallow Fair, and it was only twelve months after, that cattle imported as far north as Inverness took the disease there Lately, a cow taken to Australia, from England, was observed to be diseased on landing, and the evil results were limited to her owner"s stock, who gave the alarm, and insured the effectual check to further spread. Lastly, the recent importations of pleuro-pneumonia into the United States from Holland, seems to have awakened members of the agricultural press here, and convinced them of the stubborn fact that our cattle have been decimated by a fearfully contagious and probably preventable plague. In a letter from America, we find on this subject: "Its contagious character seems to be confirmed beyond a doubt, though some of the veterinary practitioners deny it, which is. almost as reasonable as it would be to deny any other well authenticated historic fact. Every case of the disease is traceable to one of two sources--either to Mr. Chenery"s stock in Belmont, into which the disease was introduced by his importation of four Dutch cows from Holland, which arrived here the 23d of last May, 1859, or else to one of the three calves which he sold to a farmer in North Bloomfield, last June....