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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



strict surveillance over all articles of commerce which 

 were likely to carry the viateries morhi of the cattle 

 pest, and of the danger which would be incurred in the 

 event of its extension, by allowing the importations to 

 go on from the great ports of the Weser and the Elbe ; 

 facts which have already been alluded to in the former 

 part of tiii.-! re])ort. Lord Loftus also dwelt on the 

 amount of danger which might probably arise from the 

 free import ition of bones from Russia and the Baltic 

 ports, and instanced a case where an outbreak of the 

 malady was believed to have depended on the convey- 

 ance of the bones of an animal dying with the affection 

 into a stable in which other cattle were placed. 



His lords-hip requesled that I would write to him, 

 stating the ohjfct of our inquiry and the requirements 

 we needed from the Government. He also promised 

 that he would put himstlf in immediate communication 

 with Baron Manteuflfel, and would likewise write to his 

 Excellency Sir Hamilton Seymour, her Majesty's am- 

 bassador at the Court of Vienna, to procure for us 

 letters of introduction and recommendation to the autho- 

 rities in the Cracow division of Galicia, in the event of 

 its being found necessary to go thus far to complete our 

 inquiry. 



A letter containing his lordship's suggestions was 

 thereupon forwarded to him, and to this I had the 

 honour of receiving the following reply with the sub- 

 joined enclosure:-- 



"Berlin. April 23, 1857. 



" Sir, — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 

 this dale. 



" I enclose to you herewith copy of a letter I have addressed 

 to Baron Maiiteufft-i, requesting H. E. to sive you a letter of 

 recommeudatiou for the proper authorities at Breslau ; and I 

 shall not fail to forward to you without delay II. E.'s reply. 



" I shall likewise request Sir H. Seyaiour to procure for 

 you a similar mtroductiou to the authorities at Craco.v, aud 

 shall further bea: him to forward the reply to your address, 

 " Poste restaate a Cracovie.' " I have, &c., 



"Augustus Loftus. 



' Professor Simonds, Hotel Victoria, Berlin." 



{Enclostire.) 



" Berlin, ce 23 Avril, 1857. 



" Monsieur le Baron, — Le Professor Simonds, Merabre 

 du College Royal Veteriuaire a Londres, vieiit d'arnver a Ber- 

 lin, etant cliarge d'ctudier sur les heux la nature et le traite- 

 ment tie I'l'pizootie qui s'est matiifestes eu i)Iiisieurs eirdroits 

 sur la froiitiore d:; la Prusse et de I'Autriche. Se leudant 

 Samedi prochaiu d*ns ce bi'it a Breslau, et desirant acqnerir 

 la protection et raasistance des autorites Prussieunes, il s'est 

 addresse a moi, me priant de soUiciter de V. E. uue lettre de 

 recommaiidation pour S. E. Monsieur le President Superieur 

 de la Pro-; iiice de Silcsie. 



" J'ai done eu recours a l'oblif;eance si souvent eprouvee de 

 V. E., eu la priant de vouloirbien recommanderle Professeur 

 Simouds soit a la haute protection du President Superieur ou 

 a la bienveillance des autorites coinpetentea de cette province. 



" Je dois avertir V. E. que le Professeur compte quitter 

 Berlin pour cette province Samedi prochaiu. 



" Je proftte de cette occasion, &e., 



" (Signe) Augustus Loftus. 



" A. S. E. la Baron de Mauteuflfel." 



His Excellency Baron ManteufTel most readily com- 

 plied with the request thus made, and in the eveningof 

 the same day Lord Loftus wrote as follows : — 



" Berlin, April 23, 1857. 



" Sir, — Baron Manteuffel has told me that he will forward, 

 or cause to be forwarded, though M. de Raumcr, a letter of 

 recommendation for you to the Upper President of the pro- 

 vince of Sdesia, so that ou your arri»al at Breslau you may at 

 once announce yourselves to Baron Schleinitz. 



" I enclose lierewith the despatch for Mr. Ward, her Ma- 

 jesty's Cousul-Geiieril at Leipzic, to whom I likewise enclose 

 for you a letter of introduction. I am, Sir, &c. 



" Augustus Loftus. 



" Professor Simonds, Hotel Victoria." 



Being now furnished with all the necessary letters of 

 recommendation, we made our way as quickly as possi- 

 ble into Silesia ; and arriving at Breslau, at once re- 

 ported ourselves to Baron Schleinitz, by whom we were 

 also most courteously received, and who had already 

 prepared for our use a written account of the progress 

 which the disease had made in the spring of the present 

 year in his province. 



The Bavou met us by somewhat facetiously remark- 

 ing, " that fortunately for Prussia, but peihaps very 

 unfortunately for us, who had travelled so far to study 

 the nature of rinderpest, it had no existence just now in 

 Silesia." He traced, however, upon the map the dif- 

 ferent places where it had recently prevailed near to the 

 Polish frontier, and which he himself had visited. He 

 likewise related several remarkable instances of the 

 hiirhly infectious nature of the disease, and of its con- 

 veyance from place to place by i/tdirect means of con- 

 tagion. The following is a transLition of the report 

 alluded to : — 



" Report of the Disease which prevailed among the Horned 

 Cattle in the Province of Silesia during the months of 

 March and April, 1857. 



" The rinderpest, which in the present year has visited the 

 province of Sdesia, has, with one exception, in which the pre- 

 cise manner that the infection was carried to the premises 

 could not be satisfactorily ascertained, been clearly traced to 

 the introduction of two herds of cattle from Galicia, of the 

 Podoliau or Hungarian breed, numbering respectively 44 and 

 37. These beasts were purchased by different landowners, 

 and were brought to their several estates in an apparently 

 healthy condition. Some of the animals have remained in 

 health, as, for example, those which were taken to L. Gutten- 

 ta;;, in the circle of Lubhnitz, and to Blazeiowitz, in the 

 ciicle of Tost-Gleiwitz, but others of them became the sub- 

 jf.cts of the disease, 



" THE GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS OF BRESLAU. 



" Eight oxen were brought to the domain or estate of 

 Furstenau, circle of Neumarkt, and were put into a stable 

 with some other cattle. In a few days the eight oxen fell ill, 

 and, on the disease being recognized as the rinderpest, they 

 were immediately slaughtered. They had, ho.vever, already 

 infected the others, aud, oa several becoming diseased, the 

 whole herd, consistiu^' of twenty-one animals, was likewise 

 slaughtered. On the same estate there weie eighty cows, hut 

 these were living in other sheds, aud dd not come in contact 

 with the diseaatd nniniaW ; ami, moreover in the tame village 

 there are upwards of one hundred calllc-owners, but th? whole 

 of the cattle were preserved by the suiuraary rupasurts had 

 recourse to. The sanitary cordon drawn arouud the estate 

 was removed twelve days since ; three weeks having tlapsed 

 since the last case, and everything used about the animals 

 bfing disinfected. 



"the government DISTRICT OF 0?PELN. 



" 1. Twenty oxen were brought to the estate of Schweieben, 

 in the circle of Tost Gleiwitz, and on tlieir arrival they were 

 distributed to the different stations (farms) of the estate. 

 The disease also broke out among these animals, aud, as they 

 sickened, they were removed to a station where only sheep 

 were kept, aud here slaughtered. A military cordon was also 

 drawn around the place. Notwithstandiug this precaution, 

 the disease spread thus — 



" a. In Schweieben one ox was attacked, and he, with 

 another with which he was standing, was immediately killed. 

 The further progress of the disease was at once arrested, 

 although there were 120 head of other cattle ou the estate, 

 and ia the village also about a hundred cattle-owners. 



"b. Station Radum. — An ox which showed premonitory 

 symptoms was immediately killed, together with another that 

 he was standing next to, and no other cases have occurred. 



" c. Station Wischnitz. — The appearance of the rinderpest 

 at this station is very remarkable. It appears that either four 

 or six of the Podoliau oxen were sent here, and remained for a 

 few days. These auimals gave no evidence of being affected ; 

 but ttoen'y days after their departure, one animal of a herd oil 



