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the stock was magnificent, as proved by the animals 

 in a shed to which the disease has not been propagated. 

 Almost simultaneously the malady broke oat in the 

 Essex marshes, and in every instance we trace a more 

 or less direct contamination by foreign stock. 



NOTE F. 



VIENNA, August, 1865. 



On the 28th of August about thirty of the members 

 of the Congress accepted an invitation to visit the 

 renowned agricultural establishment at Altenburg, in 

 Hungary. After the visitors had inspected the herds 

 and other appurtenances of this institution, Professor 

 Maasch, its director, intimated that the Rinderpest 

 had appeared at Nickolsdorf, about four German miles 

 from Altenburg. The President of the Congress had 

 known this fact before the party left Vienna for Hun- 

 gary ; but as he feared some enthusiasts would first 

 see the plague, and then inspect the Altenburg herds, 

 he preferred to adopt the stratagem of communicating 

 the information through Professor Maasch, after the 

 great Agricultural College of Hungary had been 

 viewed. Nickolsdorf, where the steppe murrain ap- 

 peared on the 10th of August, is an exquisitely clean 

 village, with well- white washed buildings and broad 

 roads, constituting the centre of a thriving agricul- 

 tural district. Its people are typical Hungarians, not 

 too anxious to work, and, on the whole, poor ; but 

 they are intelligent, notwithstanding the national pro- 

 clivity to farm a thousand acres badly rather than 

 one-fourth the quantity to perfection. Their wants 



