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lesions of splenic- apoplexy. The same correspondent farther 
states that on another farm a similar case had occurred, the 
victim being also a feeding heifer, and he adds that he had 
just heard of the death of five beasts on a third farm. It was 
thought that, as all these animals had been fed upon a com- 
pound cattle-cake, made chiefly of cotton seeds, linseed, and 
locust beans, the deaths might possibly be attributed to this 
cause. An analysis of the compound had been made, but 
nothing injurious was discovered. 
A second correspondent writes that he had just been called 
to an outbreak of splenic apoplexy, in which five young 
animals had died within a few days, and an in-calf cow was 
then suffering. On this farm the malady was first observed 
among some well-bred shorthorns in August last, which were 
then at grass. The measures then adopted arrested its 
further progress, but in November the disease reappeared, 
and on this, as on the previous occasion, four or five animals 
died very quickly after each other. No cause of these several 
outbreaks was apparent. 
From a third correspondent we learn that in his district the 
disease had reappeared on a farm on which several animals — 
store stock — were lost last year, and that he feared the present 
outbreak would prove equally disastrous. 
The free use of antiseptic agents, especially the sulphite of 
soda, conjoined with chloric and sulphuric aether, and the 
thorough cleansing of the sheds and yards, even to the carting 
away of the manure, and subsequent disinfecting them with 
carbolic acid, are prophylactic means which ought not to be 
neglected in any outbreak of the disease now occurring. 
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 
Since our last report a continuous diminution in the 
number of outbreaks of this disease has taken place, although 
fresh attacks have occurred in some districts. The number 
of counties now returned as afflicted are sixty, and the seve- 
ral centres of the disease 799. 
We have also received information of the existence of the 
disease near to Kallundborg, in Denmark, and in the far- 
distant republic of Buenos Ayres. In the latter-named 
country the severity of the malady was said to be declining. 
