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AMERICAN CATTLE. 



" (/.) The more highly bred are your animals, the more care- 

 ful should you be to keep them from exposure, as experience 

 shows that thorough bred animals are more likely to take the 

 disease than common cattle." 



It will thus be seen that, had the disease appeared, the New 

 York Commissioners, being armed with the power, had occasion 

 required its use, would have as effectually "stamped out" the 

 plague by immediate slaughter, as did their predecessors in Mas- 

 sachusetts. Happily such occasion passed, and we trust there 

 may be no future necessity of any action. The commission was 

 renewed in the year 1867, to continue three years. 



A modified pleuro-pneumonia has occasionally broken out in 

 some of the eastern counties of New York, and Pennsylvania, 

 alarming to some extent, at first, but prompt attention prevented 

 its spreading, if it did not yield to treatment. Although we 

 hope the disease may never occur with us, we have thought that 

 a somewhat extended notice of it would not be unprofitable, but 

 indeed serviceable to our American farmers. 



We conclude the subject of rinderpest, with an extract from a 

 report by Mr. X. 0. Willard, on his recent return from an agri- 

 cultural town in England, to the N. Y. Agricultural Society, and 

 published in Transactions for the year 1866: 



"The southern counties of England through which I passed, 

 have suffered but little from this disease, but in some of the 

 northern counties, especially Cheshire, the plague has been most 

 terrible in its ravages. The immense dairy herds of Cheshire 

 have been swept away almost entire, and a great gloom prevails 

 among the people. 



"The cheese product in Cheshire, Lancashire, Shropshire, and 

 Derbyshire, has fallen off this year more than forty millions of 

 pounds. The Cheshire farmers have now no faith in medicine 

 or remedial agents for rinderpest. One farmer, who had lost 

 eighty head, and had tried various remedies advised by veterina- 



