274 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [APRIL 18, 1857, 
Hanover, and also we believe from the por ort of | sumption, is very “dangerous, andi is in the highest imaginable , quality, » and hence our -pastures are are deseri 
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Hamburgh, which latter city is but a short distance | (ye would carry the disease with him, though himself in no good, aria i se ge and take a wet | 
from Lübeck. Herein therefore lies the greatest | way affected by it. The same observation pppu i ad settled place accordingly. For the most A 
4 hich still farther pre- | animal, as a dog or cat. They equally would transport >c- | that is done by different cultivative methods de ; 
dang o guard against ATGA eA P tion which has no-infimence. upon them uch, indeed, is the dis- f in th par 1s 1s''the | 
cautions should be required from Government. | position of the disease to communicate oe it has been maintenaneé of a pasture in the condition in which 
Consi 
the t skin and hair bein to earry inf . | anything these pastures are scarcely maintaj 
: -s to ‘the iy dines e sho re re tie n of 3 nee 
ur decided conviction | wee = rr mE >. preca Hon tne disen ssi piece axe ; a “equally, me former ou — 1 s m a 
mE {placed must be een improve oy modern science:and: appli 
(which i S of the Order in Council has | the stables in aaike cisk animale: eip pplianess, 
1 prepile and the fonii ee wit ith aoa 
tronger) that a quarantine of 14 days ua re Pamot ee A to visit. any a ETET out ila e, sad the the extent that is ea per arable land over mae 
priae yen hoik premises sho undergone -by m tion of prompt uni in the first — Baron de Bach | greater part o ngia gain, in the V; 
head of cattle imported (Spain and | is of ee that no great anxiety need be felt, even if the oman jans distriot of. me far-famed had 
mates cepted), before such cattle should be disosi should be introduecdduto ing land. Glawe “hen hae improvemest 
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Froti Berlin :— nth on f r tai 
ock premises e mana oi o nh pr a corr 
allow ot tothe removell rem “the 0 P pi- Baron {Manteuffel states that the disease has shown itself o the ‘manage tery na been ‘made noe 
in a live state n ee district of Breslau and of Appoln, but that up to ‘the arable 
“There would ‘be no hardship in this of pre moment no case of es of any sak among horned lend that co nty. 
the animals might be dlaughtered for | ¢ fle has occurred in any other Prussian province. His Ex-| Jf e look at arable ieee we find wigi F 
clleney further states that, as regards the two Yocalities above ees sek f 
‘ale during this period, a9 the option of sending | named, the most effective me asures have been taken to arrest pei is paid to the ng of our fields, so 
carcase meat would be ‘also :at' the disposal of the| the disease, and that, jndging f last year, that to apply a a, = weeds in “Morni 
importers. If there are se at:present p: terning con- in Hile: r j peat be ey Eep ee enna will be) Oyelopædia of Agriculture” “eve 
veniences for i 
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be erected with all possible gol The will be rom Ernos the Minister writes :— drance” is considered asia weed, and if 
i dan 
“The diseas h is called lunge segge (pulmonary tee po 
even when er -of the murrain has | nas only. appeared € ‘onee,and that not to'a great extent, i of defective husbandry—not eradicated, is eat 
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unless hey : : fortable, | few if any Femodids io psam moas and the: efficacio if we startas a subject of ‘in a the 
, ess't "r housed and me "2 agente and the Sepi means~of checking: Aas eaire ere whieh i is nisbiy f ove t 4 qh q $ hall: 
‘The system of examination that ‘has been adopted | contagious, bas been immedi to. destroy the cattle—not | of weeds in pasture land, by some wes 2 | 
by the custom-house authorities for some years pas opiy thes those attacked, Da but mt pato pameicented: = baari krean met with the assertion which rs so often greeted 
sm ep better than: ‘a farce, but fortunately | ind at théhesd of the eteri inary schoo}, tells me that theso pre: eS Weeds in pasture, forsooth ; 
y nyury waite measures were cons ul at the period ade u 3 i 
te thet porters that that would have attended ‘the im- | referred to, when the dises broke out in two large farms on. this | set of the inquiry we ‘find it necessary to | 
Ez of ttle, ea in: island ; but of course iepak it be. persi nioe ppr read saborea ral à par aa 
portation has ag - | these measures can scarce y be persevered än. olste 
venting the introduction of disease. When Prof, where the disease rages to a -greater extent at the present | nature of those plan oul 
SIMONDS report on ‘the t = ‘character of sn there asig me same “Ignorance = Gan may raas the pasture crop from others hi ch grow amongst 
ri emed. "to. combat it; an nO aria bebo elt to be the case 
the disease we shall be puter able to esti- mt froni ut the country, that sein tn proposed in ee nig oo this cr op to its h JEP Ep ; a the consideration 
i ast year, to make the preron harke estruction of eattle attac. oa e a neces 
mate the amount of dan e to he ich nace pocket oo witixon dedacunity. orbe grenseiae AOS of the fp othe import a esn n wb 
exposed and the probability of our ‘escaping 1 ag Fencer tells me that inoculation ‘has been tried, but wi jth pt ne nary step to the i er an Sn. ys ma 
gether by « availin ing ours selves of those e pr recautions | particularly satisfactory results.as yet. E? ted ? 
which our r insular positio on enables us to adopt. It is on this point that the Zimes correspondent, 
Hy | who writes from Hamburgh errs, confounding this 
travel in nica directions, but it-will be found pleuro-pneumonia or lung “disease with ‘the steppe 
whenever ss are of a contagious or infectious; murrain, of ‘which we.are now in dread. The 
character tha 
er that they travel in the. prai ia of com- | difference between the two is pointed out by Dr. | properties ; =o cemenliniiy the Pd al 
merce, and so kiwia the line o of epizoötics | Green How,in a report-by a lately published, to | field for the growth of good Grasses; 
leads'to and from thegreat marts.in which cattle are | the Board of Health. He — — plants, th for me ee prt pies by ie 
owever “ may dread ‘contagious di "N icat t eges $ esame fee ribu = 
iti is oe e ie aac this is their true- character, | | disease a among the ‘cattle i in countries ‘rom, witek horned cattle G P £ le into param of first-rate q 
= rted into Great Britain. There however, another these 
; are less likely to be propagated by other causes, | much m contagious and fatal disease, called in Germany the | lity ; yet all eta plants not pare pr 
and thus.we are more likely to. be preserved from the “Rinderpest” e het sd a a ppn s po har! e can only a4 considered as wee å 
BRE : : ; on: w. a j 
murrain ‘by the very fact of its being contagious | trivial exceptions, Paor iin Present exist dusady part of ow it understood we have sal ‘ed 
se could ascribe its’visitation to atmospheric | Germany or the west of continental Europe. This ‘Steppe | Gra sses,’ pee ch sy oi others < it a op 
é ee aoe ead apiorint aee en. the ers, scription or thes are asmi a 
“ihe owners ‘of. cattle would » no doubt receive Podolia na aa Fiia neige erime na, ja; from whieh ti weeds as e Wild oe in po sean ne Cont 
with facti y e that could | never “a Fama scant it graa ently meee See by oon a Wheat. Ou cual examination of British Grasses 
te at on prophylactic measures—any system of ate pe itaenea pasea pecan aeiae Eem aA nstrin. has led to the followin wing census :—Of Bri p 
‘Managem which they could page | i ee and by y th G vernment of Austria an and Prussia, to | Grasses,43 genera* includeabout 125 species; 
1s form of mu: 1 from e territories. : M4 $ about 
tatio. of the A regulation was ea in Poland on the 9th 9th of. Ma: ay, 1856, those of agricultural 1 terest number 
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ut low and debilitating in its sermi] poaesins ges have been: rege mes the Russo-Polish | seventh of our British Grassesare* 
j The cons + ee 
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Sim porte Serhan: oom xtirpation paag Grasses, such as for the. pe wk j 
| of thed disease, should it show itself: rps Are ye r-ri ted me 
zer been in on the frontiers of Austria.and Prasei arable | 
eo gi the ees a immediately killed. as soon 7 they 
wany appearan = ‘the murrain, their companions being 
in d regulations still more, gent are | il 
forced in Papal, for both- garek enine: ga all other 
beanie that have been in contact with are there killed and 
t buried 8 feet : excep. thee thr hare bene thrown a er the wna 
ese regulations have n most sternly enforced, and not only 
has the importation .of cattle from Poland, where the murrain is ee rhage Epon G eadows afe, u 
3| at present believed to exist, ‘been prohibited, but rags, hides, ut besides ba mae bon the sory they 
hoofs, hay, he e agen niga have hope in any way with a number of plants which, from pees rs 
with.eattle, | 
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prem reame paiera f troops have beenstationed |'weeds, and those, too, of ‘a ‘most pernicious gna 
along the frontier at-all the points of ogros oy Poland below | tion, These we have attempted er sepia 
3 Thorn. “Notwithstanding these ~precaut murrain occa- s 
airy purposes, By giving generous food, and | sionaliy passes into Austtiaand Prussia, and intelligence hasbeen | the PRP heads, list of 
: orous state of health, the constitu- received by ont Governmentthat:it has recently Jeen ie d| convey Em eat amount of poorer 
Si y both ; t ia, i 
a is:more likely to to resist the influ- -waigiibeuthedtlfBestlan ‘aud Oppeln, by means of disensed ikai inds of mischief 
hs any subtle poison, the owners will cattle, said to have been pr piei Galicia, but bas t spread ants :— ‘ a 
see their account in this-m ‘in more ways than into avy other P. : " , in fact, thus far b : mechanical obstraction® a stif 
one. With-regard to Se REI we are | mined tothe oxen of the infected herd. Most effective | l- “Weeds Ronson ot h deaves or dong “Ë 
ree ae age es et een cae measures have been taken tovarrest the disease, ‘and, judging Grasses which have roug 
not in a position eat Die ‘Vague from = of last year; there -i every reason to hope beards (awns). 
. of jatic that its | propagation t it i 
suggestion. The «use of hydrochloric muriatic secured’ JA anaran ihe: M sas knaen dys E Majeaty'a Thistles of =e eon 
acid has been recommended, but on what authority & ernment to have reached Kowno, Tanroggen, and other Arctium | Nettle. 
we scarcely know — ‘rust that:now the attention | sae in —_ ans of the Prussian fudi ; anorder _ Gouncil Urtica dioien, T Great rent Sing 
of — Simonp exclusively devoted to r e the importation of sitie, aiid Of hides 
horns, wrt anter, ad other mye waioates likely = wag rabian for con- 
this subject, he will: in t be — until he has’ veying ti ntry, ort in the | "2, Weeds 
Sabi ih blooduel iði kanimals o the most | ongan cers ths preventing all p tee & danger of 
a. examination, and called in professors of | the eastern fi werpr ot Ph mr a taal wag nics ee 
t im inthe task. this precaution, ine eatest 
cattle is maintained by the v eae maa oft the “Bon 
both at. London and the other ports of im: mportatio: 
age; 
Heracl hond um, Cow 
eum a ma gear, Gout W 
E have only to add to the correspondence 3 tin maen poiat 
subject in another page that additional Tuere is, perhaps, no part of the farm that 
ve been forwarded to the English Agri-| receives so > iaio aid ‘from true cultivation as the 
Foreign which 
