THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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the can compete most successfully т 
h | offering a fair ch of е ought to be tested,| regard to the Cattle Plague, the following are the 
e 
gar improve M breeds against all foreign еге. , There experiments now on in Norfolk are|most prominent :— 
country in Europe that can the inspection of a E ekilfal veterinary surgeon, | 1. x stop "e for two months or more pie e Med 
no d Mr. Giblett has talked ot | and I A be glad if they can make a satisfactory кы E and shows, so far ав cat 
tesis vi n fetched 407. — -— дее; "рд — report. m in favour of hae »opathy, or any other 2 
produces stock, but there really о animals pathy” which will give us а cure for the disease.| 2, The ре stoppage of all movement of live 
good edam eat as the English. Айну унүн however eM | he commercial aspect of. this sene ш somewhat cattle, whethe: ee t or herren 
to study to preserve e theirp power of successful com mpeti- remarkable. I was в to find what a large unum for t e have 
tion by imr trade we do with Holland in the — ^ui € у - died from E cag or xen pp Y conse- 
There is no doubt, too, that the рате bas most of 230,000 cattle impor fro uence thereo 
seriously aff 1 only of the agricul- | Holland. I am, penne D quce to: eem in 4. Government insuran 
turista, but of all classes in the kingdom, who will | Holland they are suffer most severely | from the The majority of those interested i in the subject agree 
most severely the ргеввиг e which will be put | disease, and that tl А but Govern- 
upon them i! if the plague be not staye ed. ch ате һаа the D: С now | ment, dreading the ass d as to | the supply of meat, 
as one of th t t with a erence to s Seri andit is most|are not dis isposed t ; prin cipally because it is 
the cattle plag That commission first met at the | esc: Bend They say dedi in the rp Islington м. 
of October, and it proceeded with its investi- | the d 
beginning 
E withou ut delay. We e ex amine ed i into to the earliest 
disease is increasing, and that during = Tis | ei The Smithfield Club, whilst recommending the 
three weeks they have had many more case 
to 
but still it seems to be apprehended that the disease | parts of En 
eu e 
tbe бе subject п under t the notice of the Government. We nglan rd Probably it 2-4 ho v 
very 50 the conclusion that we ought {о | will not disappear till all the animals are carried off. | defined populous places to allow fat ur to be sent 
recom a pore to take measures to| The report complains of the g carelessness of|on condition that they are to be slaughtered within 
check, if ее the spread of the disease in the owners of stock, who ar re reckless about what they buy, seven days. pposing, however, ; this p proposition to 
But w re ember т this c nt with or t t 
: ti the Continent, disin the manure of diseased кж, 
there fore did not аы tho detis of those 
mi, v ed в modified 
vernment. 
reliminary one, and referred 
va vodice. We had 
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ect but | let us consider the second proposition—the absolute 
чаи it "rmi pen read and кн sow broadcast non-removal of cattle from place to place. The advo- 
the seeds of t з er the country. | cates of this extreme measure LU reside in districts 
ought t tob warnin, us to practise every | where the cattle plague exists, but they are 
ve this redes ів ов cato hi з» Ж ав sib sirous of extendi ing the ban "to districts | not a ected 
lost his tail, and tbey argue that the mde evil should 
в, if the|be submitted to to get Mad of the greater, and exclaim, 
porary inconvenience compared to the 
y" 
I енот 
suffer from ibat| In districts (and by a dist a petty 
English animals do; and even in our London dairies | sossional "division where the [E exit) чак non- 
by far the greater number of those cured are Dutch ry de- 
in Russia that if stock tl | sirabl 
and in all verd ones, the cattle sgcaped. 
France the same thing has Бесеу “т has са 
out once or pe wice, but a strict — has been ma in- 
spread 
-| has of En 
those Lilo аге колы» native. 
glish 
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ап 
| han > write — it, we ide very much if 
| узт жүк и и m 4 recommended of sending the butcher 
instead of the beast to the butcher is the 
P ив very cie u нечне 
жы cept isolating cattle as much as ро 
and d ырааз if свои, x uniform system Hi ане | | 
веч ар +? coun у e disease ra to be|i 
mba —— eda d and c leanliness | whi 
rrr ae care will, I ышк y | First, then, let us consider the butcher to the beast 
medicine we yet know of. plan. "T grazie has half а score of fat beasts fit for 
slaughter, 
wanted he informs his b y Mos 
tcher, A., who drives 
menie: ete | over a distance of 6 or 7 od to look at them, and 
ot gone any furt 1. The fo a ing retu ued yesterday :— | бөл takes а man with him, ‚ Aff fter а I = ^ 
So far I have been нт Ж of contagion by оре; These returns do not oli "to De the total 
but compe go fu rther, and вау tha ; t Britain, take vantage of t 
it is but only those which have been ascertained from the wed. the бына, is 7% and "he time fined for 
impossible to trace a gpr ead in official information received at this office from |®leugbtering the animals, which must not be remov 
contact. I believe it never breaks out rriren inspectors, путна appointed by the Clerk of the alive. Of course they are not all wanted at once, but 
but when it is once established its spread seems to | Council, or by auth The divisions of — on three a four different occasions. 
be due {о atmospheric causes. I know that in Englan ud ua" thois of the lolum: ой Элан sent over e purpose of slaughtering, and 
admitting tbat I lay lf € ХА the конон! | th о as the мей requires bung some time, 
Why, then, do you propose m of restriction ? by the headings, * back " бАбеВ another v visit v T carts is ~ к ийе red 
That may be а very proper objection ; but what we being aidea t "s post 9. - " — us кубло eor сте — ende: 
И we have а runaway horse we can do nothing with enm 13 Panan | these 10 animals are converted into human food. 
bin; as when we A him ed moderete hisspeed we| | | "5^, ^7 c се | farm and of eerie Mes herd of cattle are exposed to 
able to Las nage him, and sabane peoria SESSITIIEIIG the visits of the men on all orn din 
him from startin ша во, if we сап but BERTEL EEE] Q iere is for many miles round, y 
ier AT Dé КЫС ЖО hog EE THE Epi H effect is that the beasts must be bought under the 
with it—we get a реА Ише іо ч for a cure, : Ea? H3 ЕРЕ g 9 value, ог a гра ге ня рау а rS — 
bul 50 long as it is raging through the country atsu 3 ЕЕ АЕН 3 expenses, "Bat e supposing that disease exists some 
a terrific rate, we shall not be able to stop it. At "ES ЕЕЕ y £ 5 5 10 t 
rst there was a disposition that the Com- 2 ERER REG E ts are slaughtered for fear they sho 
^e wid iook too serious a f the matter, but DpDCES8:8 E сеча сњ — ranner эт may have been 
then m le have come round to n- g ex e same butchers as in the 
ions. ius dues лавы rapidly from the 14th НАНЕ h pro in to slaughter tl 
October to the 2d of December ; the number of Е PRAA EO 377 7i probably convey the infection in their clothes, in one 
t which cattle have been attacked within S2S9588.29?x2| October?l. of theii ted visits to the farm from which the 
th eeks advanced from 3398 to 5118. That.really au дй easi] Weekendivg | first ten beasts - So that we conten ides 
Shows а terrible state of thiu y this tim SEZ5EBEeb5og| October 28 the increased expe and inconvenience, th ge 
fewer than 30,000 cattle have perished by the БыллШ„ы Haaa | Week ending of infection is Món r from the butcher to the beas 
plague. hough there h h discussio FETE SSS| November 4|: 12 plan than that from the beast to the butcher, for as in 
everywhere, all the views of the Commissioners have Deiis а ы den] Mee, Е те qucm instance ^ e а ў hat bourne 
om d the do not wish alter the Su Cos Naapa 9-05 $ rom whence no veller returns, no injury „сат 
е ti hey offered to — overnment one CE Edd 14b aree EE possibly arii IM $* is all very well, but if it 
tittle, There is one othe point which I should esscsprBucre Wok cn = Ё snaps from overtightn the —: is less th 
like to allude to, and thatis the treatment of the Z9oSZeusemsu| Novemberó95.| £ before, Then, hav take the case of breeding heifers. 
disease, „Мас uch w onder has been expressed that t the O oer n coc | Wekendng]|. E ye е ma ТҮҮН аслар EN Mert. tenen : 
m SSZESSESEZIZ| Deembrz- ог has no keep fo rrr e e 
treatment ; but the dinih is they came to the ved Honan we | Week ending а — я he must not sell, and if a poor man, he 
lon that they ought not to recommend any treatmen EERgXSddgps$52EGB| December 9. ined. other farmer has а large number of 
» it to be really We should CONNU ET Week ending 
have been mere d th that ESSESEGZS5s5] December 16. re there is no dairy. they calve they are 
q recommen r tha 365 | ш 
Ж adum | EfcBieressec| dne |E : а т o be healthy, КО 
ү colleagues to loo subject, and they arenow 555556559850 tricts 
. Various eminent scientific meii have taken cT бое tmem сн mt y ; the 
different branches to investigate: they will shortly ю ME 34 Killed. | ЁЁ gia they are wanted, but must 
SERIE IS dis m wb кип us Za&sRSsé EE EE саг [гиң odingi fts totam 
(cote ecd Тее, 1 believo this wil SsphSpsedsHR| DeL. f AR ь Foal di id rm 
eventually prove to be the most ul result of our IETILILFELULLELINE | $E of t -чя Ое Нерон. We ley thus the subject to the common 
labours, ` There eady di made which| =}, "EI TéxNeeL | so our readers, 
Will throw considerable light upon the pathology of ЗЕРЕН ERCER[- 7 | SE the t two pro ropositiong — Indemnity and Government 
the disease, and may possibly 1 сае Insurance. W. C. S. 
ācure. And I must mention, as a proof, that we are| © БЕ не ЕЕЕ | Remaining. | Ё 
earnest in odë i I LES ARSET SEIT E HUNTINGDONSHIRE:  Tilbroo 
our endeavours to find out the best m : 
of thot experiments are now р mL UE Tiat ire disease, the cattle plague, oed baffled th 
55 to the suggested homoo € treatment. 2. PERMISSION ОЕ FAT CATT: LE TRAFFIOC.—. Amongst|skil of our professional men, any treatment which. 
am not а homceopath myself ; уын | s atmasqub uoqipntionU nó now rising uppermost with! proves successful should, I think, be made public, In 
