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m ke. Wo wan in bis senses would t ihamm had given their signatures only wp sm o, — was nl ‘better than ; a 
o re nnda eg ted to do so by a Mr. Macintosh, w dman tatements also came from other ns 
a beast with pleuro-pneu thi Heh " En ieee iat on Mr. Maxwell vell’s behalf, telling | but simply to the € effect that red had vaccinated their 
yat cn farm, Dat soid, codon t was to defeat Dr. Gamgee’s Bill. | sheep, that they did not take the disease, many of the 
a eri tai A n n E m y ye — Some of them told him that they were still suffering | parties m ne — mig back to M sheep op ded ddr 
ngent regulations h robe bct : 
ue Moe - z msg wi vit ‘the pane ‘into 2 pope iis ina rat od f Dr. Gamgee was postponed 1 have to make s Me T is, perhaps, te wn only to 
25 , t hav very few individuals. verman's own expression 
a store market Mh he could, bot. he did mot think it "n the following Pridsy, the Committee not having a ah ag d eco RUNE EE vu er 
Tien by wert f Gl i l at a meeting of an agricultural society held in 
aoe I hat p f bje |t m icem i ir wei a perea a butcher who M an ur. in Sort ds ep D inmetiate ncn: 
w M A pro qoa E fur n chen the disease showed itself in his im i bour- 
or common olioetan | to atop a bg whole ‘herd of cattle | animal | and who found upon slaughtering i w:thi he rend i im id ne 
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ould, an E 
with some of them. Somer ln for the cl eaning price from the seller. In in nine days i in bcm a he possibly Hz med 
of trncks would tend to Miner infection, but be was | Such a oye in oe al ee re pL D^ the A wea myI no now quote his own words—“ I had e Ü sheep 
certain there was no effective prevention of foot sad nhe epis the Committee adjourned, accinated ; I am very glad I did so, for I have not had 
mouth(disease. It arose from some atmospheric cause and | tfr metet a" Muy disease among them. I had subsequently to that 
we "hd ition Of some animals to it. Two — Friday, June 17.—Upon the » reassembling of the} 20 score of lambs vaccinated,” making altogether 
reaper eri T my cud sent u z 3 a. is n Committee, Peu GAMGEE was examined by Lo m" 1200 in round numbers. 1200 shee were vaccinated, 
the disease and the I 
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T " airym red upon the ow I have good reason to believe that these 
anything on him, was to kill kia at once, but if he was tll ¢ i rp snc the Committee See Maxell d, 1200 sheep s Me. Overman's were not vaccina’ 
o poor as to be valnelees to the butcher, then it might pe ——Y mih him with —! E taire at al same Individual who did these sheep 
t he | times during the Bye four o Beate is ars. Morton, | also vétéinatel, as it was said, a large iet ie of 
y Mr. Ho If c were taken tha ean another of pes ataries of the i iori mh 1, has also | she eep for Mr. Hudson, of Castle acre, a member of 
Inspectors should ^" com tent Pei, be es would do supplied him es dr facts; and teog he di d not; ueniens the Council of this Saepe He likewise vaccinated, 
away 2 his aye to the Bill as far as pleura — directly from Mr. Andre w Simpson, be receive | as he gel > a large number of sheep for many 
was concerned, e cleansing a} ncaa “might preve nt in mation with respect to that. person’s dairy from | individuals that nei shauna; so that, in all 
the s pread of iban to some extent, but not in a MG impson, who managed it. Mr. creates supplied pi 5 operated upon not less than from 3000 
cases. He mes a gentleman who Y. urchased “oe him with i number of animals lost | to 4000 she Now, I might ask any one who knows 
cattle at Birmingham ‘to send to n to ba am e d, by dis isease in the year, not only with ahd ts hia own palo at A ibus Mee —— Mer in the don 
rucka cleansed v vid cont yt eg and itewas dod d | dairy, but with respect to several others, - Heh had now did the lymph come from to v : S : 
wa ected u e Prentice’s 1, g 
Smith a Mr! were dal with the distemper as case ; but the facts were embodied in his report to the! I find that this heey og had no ficu ulty whatever 
badly as Doe animals in the ma ma t. ‘ach of ki Government at the time, He had plenty of evidence to| about it. He c i ime in phi 
By Sir W, Mues. He had not se ob equ à | prove that his inquiry was properly conducted, and that | which were filled i t the brim. He used this material 
pneumonia, and it w was possible that the s mima * n6 | the greatest care was exercised in obtaining a^curate| on the sheep generally, and he used i 
mentioned ae af meds P you ig Pm c d m e th ired into the bett reg eee Chae ae M 
le, and ey were inquired into the = ing to an admission of Mr, Ove 
ge gea Counties } oar ge it ss thei opinion Aedes they would be ern A The “Gairymen signed M Eh re were certainly 
4 axwell’s document without knowing anythin ng si that were Vecclba ted from points in the ordinary way, 
[wo TN incladed e in ‘the "E Pleara yy peel what they were doing. and he said, “I did x bry hea difference between the 
— met the aar. and mouth "agane, quei bdo er of letters were here bac - Mi € Caird vaccination "done by that done by this fluid, 
Fere instan ss not. Jf the foot an cag aziers | from dairyimen in DUE h, con e state- | and I am satisfied, reine, that t Me o> i been 
aan rack ont e of the Bill, the farmers and gr ment of Dr. Gamgee that 3 citned the s iran vaccinated” Y hate mber 
ent. 
Colonel Baw : : They did not consider that there from them a ope which he founded his report to the | she 
orak 15 ab ce S es GAMGEE said he hoped his facts were not being exposed to the in 
pene ode it was every "ie di vot think that the | to fall upon rwy Pe: for if he | have put|took the dise sense, which went on rather severely 
restrictions would be of use in the case of pleura , for - writers Z their oaths, he was satis ed that E in bis fl H Aem 
the sheep, knew radici ‘itl ba nothing about 
e ks Ear Bag c eene Docs c the matter, or perha e than fu he 
would in any degree check the transactions of cattle were w sime J s vindica iion as would be matter) presumed that he knew gr reat t deal, | and aoe AE 
buyers, orreduce the numberof cattle brought to market. | /o* future adi that these sheep of Mr. Hudson we 
Mr, ag By M the instance be had omen à des iei, m "5 
April 18,00 to 20,000 ü sheep X eae ee tee T - BOTe CH d 
for about 177. 10s. apiece, and after grazin grin till stem for the for, instead of taking the 
BARS dod the ox with pleura EC The flesh with pene oss RU vas Ey EM PD TM smallest potas of " and just soiling 
would not be injurious as human food, and he should be | ©? n . | it with the virus, and introducing 
very happy to dine off the animal bimsell e did not apply E. gm to oe cows, because | p the skin, so as blood, he 
“The pry : i ed dà mds Hi being they were muc usceptible of the discase for| made large incisions inside the arms of these poor 
dhe Chairman snncunecd tat te Commitee | "eris reasons, ` Senb in v sheep was easily cured, but | sheep, inserting in those incisions bits of tow changed 
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el aed to strike the foot and mouth disease out of | 55 it was an infections vae set p "s Ta can to bl Ton grey that he called 
rse nocu 
: b The person ^ w sulted, and n. inoculated 
mense was n long "dee nt, an 8 very 
noticeable when it broke out, nor did he think the € Foamea. in mnp refuting all the charges that 
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keep animals so affected apart fi d ones, and È nful a scene, ‘Besides those which died 
nd ones, and in | never saw so painful a scene, i Ww 
Mr. Wrrgon, of Peterborough, gave ego gts Land (AS ORRIN ar teh ecd e uta e ` 
ML ae that aai hom the lak tness, | Such places that they oe - rel - ike there ZR ers w 
ns st 
cec et 
flocks. H ed of th loss of € the t pee “4 
ocks. He approved of the i ‘oun e an ear, 
at ting tine ihe great ne ir the farmers of "i cleaning of wag: nd steam used in the con-| forth; so that many of the surviving sheep m 
pits h Geo on ele re : move z They were of | Veyance of cattle, He never found a fore beast | well have died as lived, so far as the pecuniary q 
X qme ittee EM ^ d with acted ve gel 2T. = Bill was brought in, | was concerned, Well ^ m inoculation carried on in 
opinion r restrictions ought en circulars ery county in Scotland, | this manner have got into disrepute in Norfolk. 
mer de mtt Mp. EF ee e ead as wers he received mead that there wasa| — A natural outbreak upon a farm of 
SRL dr —— nana, aie Uy re Dis cation. grent mitigation of meses n Scotland. As the Bill| Mr. Muskett, of Narford. The gentleman who Ar 
e - i RN P» v o Xiaborgh. | however, unless rto was exe cases | nated sheep fromja bottle, went there and vaccina Mr. 
Ee: Al het tue p% bic mami doped fon] v considerable bardebip s vould arise under it. | Muskett’s sheep, after the natural disease had appeared. 
several of the leading dairymen in MEN including ud bp d Aun roy nd 
NE ^ Zu Ren Smisted Dh preparing OF SHEEP isease went on » and he out o 
his Haddo, e^. d Lu i is of hi THE VACCINATION OF § the thousand. I turn now to the case of Mr. Overman’s 
own. vg = T or mina M rray Pp j^ [The following eA e subject is abridged from Prof. Simonds’ | sheep. r. Overman sent Pst sheep, after being 
rod wis ral u " ^ iM i recent lectu the Small-pox before the Agricultural | pressed to do so, to the farm neighbour, in whose 
Agricultural ege o: D en faso re z din , Boctety of Englau d. flock tbe disease existed; a tho ose two sheep were 
ue ped Eben he bad ecc £a a o Ad In order to rien the preventive value of vacci- | both inoculated on that farm m, one of them by a farmer 
4 tion from from ‘Mr. Had d ga chia "for the correctness " nation, , the Gov ment purchased 200 sheep, which eel do not hesitate to say at that time performed 
stating x gwowcning or the supervision of Mr. ut e the operation of inoculating far pe. bm 
his facts, os 
observations, th ias to oertain thes Uem of: the pes -pox Hospital, gd nose called pire Sak t c» 
Ero ES ool onglbidaqeiecdlasi sheep were placed ds a farm then n my occupation, | Litcham. Mr, Coo 
pr ] the | in the immediate Er of and Mr, es and Mr. 
et Marson and myself ,indiaak to carry out rie 
SmeP s y to ngst the 
vana miens iris The deirymen had suf- 
on that accoun 
hd ay: ae nentes 
similar | appeared in Roce de ies had been 
LN de 
T gentlemen hesen Mpeg pe recommending t 
"id ast y endati 
to the disease 
gard to the recomm other tae 
i m, ; came the Norfolk agriculturists, pue among | picking thoin out mear e ihe p, gg n 
TR she hoe Pu the oodd whe wets to the papers was Mr. Henry | of vaccination?” He agreed to 
ap MN. MN er Overman, of Weasenham, That gentleman ad E effect | little cireumstance arose a Sires dia arrange: 
Y, had sent him a cre ed in conse. | that during his LM - "life bo Bang in | men ES carried out, That cireumsta’ 
of Mr. Hall Maxwell’s Mic bo nd. visited pag LN pme i 
$n in Edinburgh and found that though they vig a his Hock 
ed the document denying the accuracy sheep took edes UR. Chak Mey ats pictociel 
8 evidence, they ha ee en eis ia the affection; and that any preferred 
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