270 Report on Steppe Murrain or Rinderpest. 



from animal to animal by persons and various articles of clothing, 

 &c. which have come in contact with the diseased cattle. 



10. That the ox tribe is alone susceptible to the disease ; and 

 that the morbific matter on which it depends lies dormant in the 

 system for a period of not less than seven days, and occasionally, 

 according to some continental authorities, as long as twenty days 

 before the symptoms declare themselves. 



11. That an attack of the disease which has terminated favour- 

 ably renders the animal insusceptible to a second action of the 

 viateries morhi which gives origin to the pest. 



12. That the deaths often amount to 90 per cent. 



13. That the malady is one in which the blood is early, if 

 not primarily affected ; and that subsequently the mucous mem- 

 branes throughout the entire body become the principal seat oi 

 the morbid changes. 



14. That the symptoms in general are well marked and quite 

 characteristic of the affection. 



15. That all varieties of medical treatment which have as yet 

 been tried have failed in curing the disease ; the recoveries which 

 take place' having for the most part depended on the vis medi- 

 catrix naturae. 



16. That no fear need be entertained that this destructive pest 

 will reach our shores. Its present great distance from us would, 

 of itself, afford a fair amount of security ; but when we add to 

 this tliat no cattle find their way from thence directly or indi- 

 rectly to the English market, and also that in the event of the 

 disease spreading from Galicia, it would have to break through 

 hundreds of military cordons, one after the other, before it could 

 possibly reach the loestern side of the German states, and more- 

 over that for years past commerce has been unrestricted with 

 regard to skins, hides, bones, &c., of cattle from Russia and else- 

 Avhere, all alarm we believe may cease with reference to its im- 

 portation into the British Isles. 



Jas. B. Simonds. 



X. — On Horseshoeing. By William Miles. 



Although the subject of this paper may not legitimately come 

 under the head of agriculture, it is nevertheless so intimately 

 connected with the interests of the agriculturist, and Ijas been 

 so wofully neglected by him, that I may perhaps be excused for 

 attempting to arouse him to a sense of its importance in a 

 pecuniary point of view. Horses are essential to the carrying on 



