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everywhere, some horned cattle have been 

 seized with the typhus at the town of Eaubaix, 

 in the north. 



Without setting ourselves up as pessi- 

 mists, let us declare that we must expect 

 that the contagion will continue to spread. 

 Let us make up our minds to this, in order 

 to take the necessary sanitary measures, 

 and set ourselves seriously to work by 

 trying the preventive treatment. But, alas ! 

 between the Government, the municipal cor- 

 porations, the agricultural societies, the cattle 

 proprietors, and, with regret we add, the 

 veterinary surgeons, there has been sadly 

 wanting, up to the present time, that mutual 

 understanding, that prompt and decisive action, 

 and those pecuniary advances which are so 

 necessary to encounter and contend with this 

 great calamity. 



As for estimating with any approach to 

 accuracy the sacrifice of property, the pecu- 

 niary loss, which this fatal epizootia may occa- 

 sion the country, the want of exact statistics 

 as to the number of cattle which have already 

 been struck down will not permit us to do it. 



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