No. 11. 



Russian Imperial Economical Society. 



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liquids during life and after death, the na- 

 ture of the disease, and its nosological clas- 

 sification. 



Art. 3. The probable causes of the dis- 

 ease, its mode of appearance in one district, 

 its contagion, modes of communication to 

 . others, and all the circumstances which 

 seem to give the disease intensity. Amon<r 

 the predisposing and predominant causes, 

 and those causes which may be considered 

 generating, and those which extend the dis- 

 ease, the author ought to search for those 

 which relate to our climate, to modes of 

 keeping, to feeding, and also whether pecu- 

 liar breeds are peculiarly liable to the dis- 

 ease ; and finally, whether by reason of all 

 these causes or any of them, it is to be 

 feared that this disease may show itself 

 spontaneously in France. 



Art. 4. The difference of symptoms (diag- 

 nosis) between this disease and the other 

 known diseases of cattle, or what analogy 

 there is between them, and the probable 

 cause or causes of the disease. 



Art. 5. The relations — if there are any 

 between this disease and other diseases of 

 cattle, sheep, horses and hogs ; and more 

 particularly as relates to the causes of the 

 diseases. 



Art. 6. To point out the best measures to 

 be taken relative to the meat of such dis- 

 eased animals as have been butchered, or 

 which have died a natural death. 



Art. 7. The best means to be used by 

 farmers to preserve their animals, when the 

 disease is spontaneous and enzootic, — in the 

 animal itself — and above all where it does 

 not show itself as by contagion; and finally, 

 those means which have or which seem to 

 have had the most success — 1st, in preserv- 

 ing a threatened district from it; 2nd, in cir- 

 cumscribing and confining the disease in an 

 affected district ; 3d, to extinguish it where 

 it does exist; 4th, to prevent its renewal, 

 and at the saine time to disinfect not only 

 the particular localities where it has been, 

 but also all the utensils made use of by the 

 diseased animals. 



The Society will decree the prize, if op- 

 portunity then presents, in the public sitting 

 of April, 1846. If any memoir is not ad- 

 judged worthy of the full prize, a part of it 

 will be decreed, or medals of gold to such 

 authors as shall have resolved some of the 

 questions here put, particularly those com- 

 prised in Articles 2, 3, 4, 5 and"?. The So- 

 ciety must own all the memoirs presented 

 to it, and dispose of them as may seem pro- 

 per. — Translated by H. Meigs, Esq. 



Great alarm exists in Europe as to the 

 progress of this disease ; regulations in the 



nature of quarantine are in contemplation, 

 to arrest it ; and it is proper that we should 

 prepare our own country on this interesting 

 subject. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Russian Imperial Economical Society. 



The following letter has been kindly handed for pub- 

 lication in the Cabinet by Aaron Clement, the Record- 

 ing Secretary, of our Agricultural Society. Such com- 

 munications, leading to an interchange of opinions 

 and kindly offices, are in a national point of view, 

 highly interesting. With an Empire spreading over 

 so vast an extent of territory, and a corresponding po- 

 pulation, we cannot but give to Russian agriculture 

 our best wishes for its improvement. If more than 

 these caribe made available, we are sure the Philadel- 

 phia Agricultural Society will embrace with alacrity, 

 every opportunity to do so.— Ed. 



Perpetual Secretary's Office, St. Petersburg, 

 January 29th, 1845. 



To the State Agricultural Society of Penn- 

 sylvania, in the U. S. of America: 



The Russian Imperial Economical Society, 

 established in the year 176.5, having for its 

 object the improvement of difl^erent branch- 

 es of rural ecconomy, desires to enter into 

 correspondence with your honorable Society 

 for mutual exchange of difl^erent experi- 

 ments, observations and discoveries, in order 

 to promote the national welfare of both coun- 

 tries. The Almighty having blessed the 

 United States and Russia with immense 

 tracts of fertile lands ; has pointed out to us 

 that the principal occupations of both coun- 

 tries should consist in rural pursuits. There- 

 fore we feel real sympathy towards your 

 great nation ; and the more so, because our 

 Society has the honor of counting among its 

 active and useful members one of your dis- 

 tinguished citizens, the Honorable Col. Todd, 

 the representative of your country in Russia. 



Our Economical Society has for a long 

 time expressed the wish of communicating 

 witii Economical Societies in other coun- 

 tries; but as our annual accounts of proceed- 

 ings and the transactions of our Society are 

 published in the Russian Language, which 

 is very little known abroad, so the Society 

 commenced publishing extracts of the annu- 

 al reports, and of the transactions in the 

 German language, which is generally un- 

 derstood in civilized countries; and the So- 

 ciety conceiving that these publications 

 would be the means of communication be- 

 tween the two countries, has therefore 

 charged me, as its perpetual Secretary to 

 forward to you a copy of the said publica- 

 tion ; and I take this opportunity to add that 

 I am very happy to be the organ of express^ 



