49G AMERICAN CATTLE. 



" We here quote from Prof. McCall's introductory lecture before 

 the class of veterinary students, November 6lh, of the present 

 year, at Glasgow, Scotland, to show that pleuro-pneumonia is still 

 making its ravages among the cattle of that country : 



"'For upwards of twenty years this country has annually lost 

 thousands of cattle from one contagious disease alone, viz.: pleuro- 

 pneumonia, and at the present moment it is busy among our 

 herds. One gentleman present has lost twenty-two out of a 

 herd of thirty -five; and a few weeks ago I was consulted by a 

 farmer wlio had lost twelve out of twenty, and now the disease 

 has appeared among his young stock. The number of deaths in 

 these instances are appalling, and the loss, directly or indirectly, 

 cannot be estimated at less than 900 or 1,000 ($5,000.) 



"'The plague has drained the pockets of farmers and dairy- 

 men of thousands sterling; but, thank Providence, we are now 

 free of the disease in this country. Pleuro-pneumonia has drained 

 our pockets of millions of pounds, and she is still in our midst, 

 the great enemy of our stock. ***** Use the means 

 I have indicated, and the means which the plague has taught us 

 to be of benefit, in controlling contagious diseases, and if the con- 

 tagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle, now decimating our stock, is 

 not thereby extinguished stamped out its operations will be so 

 curtailed, that the losses resulting to stockholders, from the pres- 

 ence of the disease, will sit light upon them.' 



"Prof. Simonds, in his introductory address, delivered at the 

 Veterinary College in London, in October, says : 



"'From this time, the disease called rinderpest, spread in all 

 directions, the attacks gradually rising until they reached, in the 

 week ending February 17th, 1866, the alarming number of 

 15,706. The first order in council, was dated July 14th, 1865, 

 and from that period until now, order has succeeded order, with 

 more or less influence in checking the progress of the malady, 

 and providing for the altered state of things arising out of its 

 existence. 



