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tar, should be left in the stall, or a large piece 

 of camphor should be suspended from the 

 ceiling. Vinegar may be spilt on a piece of 

 red-hot iron, or powder of sulphur may be 

 burned into sulphuric gas and diffuse its 

 vapours through the stall or shed. This ex- 

 cellent parasiticide may perhaps be equally 

 endowed with anti-typhic properties. 



Finally, when this fatal epizootia is ravaging 

 the country, every farmer and agriculturist 

 must carefully abstain from mixing with his 

 herds any cattle which have been bought 

 either at fairs or markets ; he must take care, 

 conformably with the directions issued by the 

 Privy Council, (to which we refer the reader 

 for more ample details,) to avoid all contact 

 both direct and indirect with horned cattle 

 tainted with the typhus, as he might himself 

 become an instrument of the contagion. Let 

 him never forget that to take as the guide for 

 his actions in these times of calamity his 

 private and personal interest, is the greatest 

 crime a man can commit. Let him strive, 

 therefore, to assist the authorities in the 

 measures which they have taken for the in- 

 terest of all. 



