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NOTE D. 



INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY CONGRESS, VIENNA, 

 August, 1865. 



With regard to the cattle plague, it may be well 

 to state that Austria has been most unfortunately 

 situated, from the readiness with which Russian cattle 

 have been admitted into the country at various parts 

 of the western and southern frontiers. At the opening 

 of the Congress this difficulty was particularly noted 

 by the Ministerial counsellor, Dr. Veil, who attended 

 on behalf of the Government, for the purpose of 

 welcoming the assembly, and giving an assurance 

 that its deliberations would meet with all the atten- 

 tion they deserved. He specially referred to the fact 

 that the laws relating to cattle disease prevention had 

 been entirely revised in 1859, but that the Steppe 

 murrain continued to be introduced by smuggled 

 stock into the western and southern provinces of the 

 State. It was therefore necessary to attempt a more 

 effectual control over the propagation of so disastrous 

 a malady. 



Herr Pabst welcomed the meeting on behalf of the 

 Minister of Trade. He said that the value of the 

 cattle of the Austrian dominions considerably exceeded 

 one hundred million pounds sterling (one thousand 

 million Austrian florins), and that cattle plagues com- 

 pletely put a stop to the development of that essential 

 branch of agriculture which embraces the improve- 

 ment and increase of live stock in a country. He 

 assured the assembly that all would be done that was 

 possible to improve the existing state of matters, and 



