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fessor Simonds is of opinion that the disease men- 

 tioned by the Duke of Coburg is not the same as that 

 from which we are suffering here that its name is 

 the Siberian Pest." Mr. Panter's statement is dated 

 Sept. 4, and is as follows : " On the 13th of July I 

 purchased five Dutch cows in the Metropolitan Market, 

 and placed them in quarantine at Child's-hill Farm, 

 one mile from here. On the 22nd of July one of 

 them showed signs of debility ; diarrhoea followed. 

 Thinking it was only a cold, she was treated accord- 

 ingly, but continued to get worse, and died in five 

 days. Two more were attacked in a similar way, when 

 veterinary advice was called in, but in five days the 

 whole either died or were slaughtered. Every pre- 

 caution was used to prevent the spread of infection 

 here ; the men who attended the sick cattle were not 

 allowed to go among the healthy ones, and vice versa. 

 But, previous to this, hearing of the disease in the 

 London cowsheds, I adopted precautionary measures, 

 such as a liberal use daily of chloride of lime, adminis- 

 tered one ounce of nitre in half a pint of water to each 

 cow, and a small quantity of tar, and painted their 

 noses with tar. But on the 8th of August, unfor- 

 tunately, the disease showed itself here in a fat cow 

 that had been for ten months in the best built, best 

 drained and ventilated shed. No new stock had been 

 added for nine weeks. In a few hours four more cows 

 showed symptoms of it. I immediately had them all 

 removed and slaughtered, and made a post-mortem 

 examination of them, and found the windpipe in a 

 state of decomposition, the lungs inflated, the small 

 intestines red and inflamed, and the meat of a dark 



