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are not great, and their worldly luxuries, beyond 

 potatoes and schnaps, are bought with the profits 

 made on large herds of cattle. One herd only had 

 suffered from the cattle plague when we visited the 

 village. This herd consisted of 1225 animals, divided 

 into three lots. The affected portion numbered 450 

 animals bullocks intended for work and slaughter 

 varying in age from three to seven years. The cows 

 and heifers had not been smitten. The 450 animals 

 amongst which the disease appeared were housed in 

 no less than sixteen different sheds in Nickolsdorf. 

 Out of each of these places sick animals had been 

 taken, and either slaughtered or permitted to die. 

 We killed four for dissection on the 29th. Six more 

 had been previously killed, their hides slacked, and 

 the entire body buried ; nine had died, and two we 

 left in life to be soon slaughtered and disposed of as 

 the others. The district veterinary surgeon in con- 

 stant attendance was an extremely active and intelli- 

 gent man, who recognised the disease on its first 

 outbreak, and adopted such measures for separation, 

 destruction, and burial, as prevented the disease from 

 spreading so rapidly as it has in England. 



The cause of the outbreak was the intermingling of 

 cattle-dealers' stock with the Nickolsdorf herd ; and 

 although the animals which carried it have not been 

 fully traced, they are believed to have been owned by a 

 butcher who had purchased them in Comorn, where the 

 malady is raging. Singular variations have been seen 

 in the symptoms exhibited, especially when animals 

 are first affected. During the Nickolsdorf outbreak 

 there has been an invariable incubation of five or six 



