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breeding districts where the proprietors of extensive dairies, 

 as in some parts of Dumfries, &c., abstain from buying, ex- 

 cept from their neighbours who have never had the lung 

 disease amongst their stock, pleuro-pneumonia has not been 

 seen. , There is a wide district in the vicinity of Abington, 

 and in the parish of Crawford, and I could mention many 

 others, which has not been visited by this plague, with the 

 exception of two farms in which market cattle have been 

 imported and carried the disease. 



Thirdly, In 1854 appeared a Eeport of the researches on 

 Pleuro-pneumonia, by a scientific commission, instituted by 

 the Minister of Agriculture in France. This very able 

 pamphlet was edited by our esteemed friend Professor 

 Bouley of Alfort. The members of the commission belong 

 to the most eminent veterinarians and agriculturists in 

 France. Magendie was president ; Reynal, secretary ; be- 

 sides Rayer, the renowned comparative pathologist ; Yvart, 

 the Inspector-General of the Imperial Veterinary Schools ; 

 Renault, Inspector of the Imperial Veterinary Schools ; De- 

 lafond, Director of Alfort College ; Bouley, Lassaigne, Bau- 

 demont, Doyere, Mauny de Morny, and a few more repre- 

 senting the public. If such commissions were occasionally 

 appointed in this country for similar purposes, how much 

 light would they not throw on subjects of paramount im- 

 portance to the agricultural community. 



The conclusions arrived at by this Commission are too im- 

 portant to be overlooked here. I must refer the reader to 

 the Report itself, if he needs to satisfy himself as to the care 

 taken in conducting the investigations ; but the foregoing 

 names sufficiently attest the indisputable nature of the facts 

 alluded to. 



In instituting its experiments, the Commission had in view 

 to solve the following questions : 



