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disease, indicated by a sbort diy cough, may, however, last for 

 weeks. During this period the animal may be cured. In the 

 second and third stages the disease is as fatal as the steppe mur- 

 rain, fakes also much the same course, and ends in the same 

 manner with ccdematous swelling, convulsions, death. 



Contagious character. — The pulmonary murrain is fully as 

 contagious as the steppe murrain. In a sanatory point of view 

 the two diseases may, therefore, be regarded as identical. Hence 

 the precautionary measures above recommended are applicable to 

 both. 



Although the disease that has broken out among the horned 

 cattle in Mecklenburg seems to be regarded as tlie pulmonary 

 murrain, it may perhaps be tlie real steppe mm^raia which is now 

 raging among the cattle in Poland to a fearful extent, notwith- 

 standing the stringent measures that have been adopted by the 

 Russian Government for putting a stop to it. 



I have, &c,, 

 (Signed) T, A. BlaCKWELL. 



Colonel Hodges, C.B. 

 &c. dx. 



III. — German Wool Fairs, Midsummer, 1856. 



Foreign Office, July 11th, 1S56. 

 Sir, — I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, 

 to be laid before the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, 

 the accompanying copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul- 

 General at Leipzig, enclosing a report upon the Wool Fairs of 

 Germany. 



Lord Clarendon thinks that this information may not be un- 

 interesting to the Society. I am. Sir, &c. 



The Secretary of the SlIELBURN. 



Jioyal Agricultural Society. 



Report on the Leipzig and other German Midsummer Wool Fairs 



oj 1856. 



The Lelpziir Wool Fair was liold this year, as usual, on tlie lotli 

 and 14th of June, and was well attcmled, principally by German 

 purchasers. The central situation at Leipzig among tlie cloth 

 manufactories of Saxony and Prussia makes it a convenient place 

 of resort for wool buyers, though the supply is always small in 

 com])arison witli the f|uaiititics brought to the great lairsof Herlin 

 and Brcslau. On this occasion the stock of wool at market was 



