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cost about four cents a pound) is openly carried on, and not the slight- 

 est attempt is made to disguise the object for which they are i)repared. 



Diseases of cattle. — The Loudon Veterinarian says the present 

 condition of Europe with regard to the cattle plague is not very reas- 

 suring. It still threatens Germany, and has not been exterminated 

 either in Galicia or Lower Austria. It has broiien out iu Poland, on 

 the direct line of railway leading iuto Silesia ; also in the Baltic i^rov- 

 ince of Livonia in Eussia, near the port of Eiga, and among the cows 

 in the dairies of St. Petersburg, besides existing to an alarming extent 

 iu Southern Eussia, where sheep as well as cattle are attacked. It has 

 also appeared iu several departments in France, extending its ravages 

 from the neighborhood of Paris toward the channel coast at Havre and 

 Dieppe. In Holland, however, the ideuro-pneumonia has been steadily 

 declining for several months. 



The foot and mouth disease still retains a strong hold iu many parts 

 of Great Britain, and is reported as existing in eighty-two counties. 

 Fairs and markets in connection with the Irish cattle trade have proved 

 prolific sources of mischief. It exists iu Holland ; and a cargo of twelve 

 hundred sheep, landed at Harwich from Eotterdam, four of them being 

 found infected with the disease, the whole were immediately slaughtered 

 at the place of landing. Other cargoes from the same port, in which 

 the disease was detected, were summarily dealt with in the same man- 

 ner. 



The small-pox in sheep has increased to rather a serious extent in 

 Pomerania and other parts of the ISTorth German States. Inoculation 

 continues to be carried out on a large scale, fiirmers having the fullest 

 confidence in its protection against the natural disease, as well as that 

 the benign nature of the inoculated sheep-pox rarely leads to fatal 

 results. English farmers generally concur in this opinion. 



The influenza in horses, which was noticed and excited alarm in the 

 stables of New ^ork, a few months since, is going the rounds of the 

 large towns and cities of Europe ; in some places in England it has 

 made great havoc. The x)athology of this disease requires a more full 

 investigation than it has yet received. 



Carbolic aid in veterinary practice. — La Tribune Medicale of 

 Savoy states that a destructive epidemic of cattle plague was arrested 

 by the following treatment : 1. Bleed to the extent of three quarts. 2. 

 Administer a quart of lukewarm water, in which are dissolved two and 

 a half drachms of cry stalized carbolic acid. 3. Give, once or twice, four 

 quarts of strong infusion of cofiee. 4. Energetic frictions to excite 

 cutaneous reaction. 5. Scarify the infiltrated regions. G. In the course 

 of the complaint give several quarts of the infusion of gentian. 7. 

 Dress with a solution of the above-mentioned carbolic acid, above the 

 pustules which form on the hide. In this manner fifty cows, seven 

 horses, and one pig were treated, of which only one cow died, and the 

 epidemic was arrested. 



Wild beasts and snakes in India. — The Viceroy of India has con- 

 tinued and extended the liberal rewards for the destruction of wild 

 beasts and snakes. The following record of dreadful deaths from both 

 causes, during three years, is condensed from the Government Gazette. 

 Killed by wild beasts, by the returns from only ten districts, 12,554 ; 

 killed by snakes, in nine districts, 25,604 ; total from both causes, 38,218, 

 and these are only the cases officially reported. How many thousands 

 of other deaths, trom the same horrible causes, in districts not reported, 

 and in lonely, isolated villages, dreary swamps, and wild jungles, from 

 which official reports cannot be obtained, will never be known. The 



