Show The Cattle Plague WASHINGTON Oct nThe Commissioner of Agriculture irf a letter to the Secretary of the Massachusetts Commission says Dr Salmon Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry In-dustry and Dr Murray Trumbull and Holland Hol-land a veterinarian of long service in the Bureau of Animal Industry unhesitatingly pronounce the disease among cattle in certain cer-tain distillery stables at Chicago as pleuro I pneumonia Dr Hartment is doing all that is possible toward exterminating this disease It still prevails in and around New York City New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Dela-ware and in Baltimore Virginia and Maryland Mary-land He advocates the passage of a law by Congress that will give the Department authority to slaughter diseased and exposed animals and a fund to at least partly indemnify in-demnify owners He claims that such a law would confine the plague within its present limits but it would not extirpate it I |