MACLEAN & COMPANY'S DEVON CATTLE.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1237, 3 June 1880, Page 2

MACLEAN & COMPANY'S DEVON CATTLE.

J It will be remembered that when it j was first reported that one or two of the Devon cattle on Maclean and Company's Pah farm were suffering from some disease Messrs Mitchie ' and Naden visited the farm, and gave it as their opinion that the animals were not suffering from Pleuro. Since then one of the cows has got gradually worse, and at the request of Mr Naden she was killed on Sunday, and a post mortem made. The report of Mr ! Naden given below bears out the previously expressed opinions, and confirms the pleasing intelligence that the disease, whatever it was, was not pleuro. :—: — Cambridge, May 31st, 1880. Sir, — I have the honor to report for the information of the South Auckland Cattle Board, that on May 30th, in the presence of two members of the Cattle i Board, I made a, post mortem examination of a Devon cow, the property of Messrs. Maclean & Co. at the Pah farm, near Cambridge, destroyed at zny request, as she had been ailing for some time, and was not likely to recover. Some interest having been taken by the Cattle Board and the public, with reference to the cow alluded to, I give the port mortem, appearances in detail. A part of the pleura covering the right lung was covered with a number of small tubercles, and a portion of the right side was in the same condition. There were several abscesses in the right lung. The left lung -was perfectly healthy. Upon the external part of the liver there were numerous tubercles, and when cut into, several abscesses. The small intestines were much ulcerated and inflamed in patches, and this accounted for many of the symptoms present while .she was living, and would have caused death. It was impossible that she could have recovered, and the post mortem examination conclusively proves that this cow had no trace of pleuro-pnoumouia. Upon the same day, I examined the remainder of the cattle at the Pah faim and they were to all appearances pcifectiy healthy. — 1 have, &c. G. Nadex, M.R.C.V.S.L.