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VIII. — Note on an Outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease. By 
W. J. Edmonds, of Southrop House, Lcchlade. 
[In a Letter to the Editor.] 
It may not be uninteresting at a time when " Foot-and-Mouth " 
disease has been recently so prevalent, to furnish you with 
the result of an experiment I unintentionally made on some 
fattening cattle. Knowing that the disease had come within 
two miles of us (it had, in fact, attacked animals very near, of 
which I was not aware), I ordered a cow, which was nearly fat 
and near home, to be put into the feeding-pits in whicli were 
14 oxen and heifers. The pits form two sides of a rectangular 
parallelogram, Nos. 1 to 2(3 ; whilst on one side of them are 
open stalls (Z»), tie-up places (c), and a yard (d). These were- 
also filled with cattle, and the whole were attended to by one 
man, whose feeding-house is {a). The cow was put into No. 18, 
10 9 8 7 0 0 4, 3 £ 1 
September 17th ; on the morning of the 18th my bailiff told me, 
that although they detected no disease on the 17th, yet they had 
that morning found that she was suffering from foot-and-mouth 
disease, and had put her in the meadow she came from. Mac- 
Dougall's powder was freely used over the whole place, and the 
manure from the affected pit removed. I immediately ordered 
some carbolic acid to be procured, and we sprinkled some 
mixed with water in the different buildings ; rubbed the faces 
of the animals with acid and oil, and for some time washed the 
rails every day with diluted acid (which the cattle often licked 
off), sprinkling the pathway as well. Eight of the oxen were 
in Nos. 1, 2, &c. ; the other six occupying Nos. 20, 21, 22, 23, 
24, 25. On the 22nd of September, the ox in No. 23 was 
attacked with foot-and-mouth disease, and although it refused 
