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SHEEP-SCAB. 
animals brought over with infected cattle, and sent onwards 
to the Metropolitan Market, have been exposed for sale in a 
diseased condition, and others have been detected in the 
market lairs. This has been a source of complaint among 
the consignees of foreign cattle, who consider that Irish 
cattle, when diseased, should be dealt with at the port of 
landing in the same manner as foreign. If all the animals 
were fat, and intended for immediate slaughter, there 
would be less difficulty in thus dealing with them ; but it 
must be remembered that a large number of them are 
“ stores/ 5 and to slaughter these at the port is something 
“ like killing the goose which lays the golden egg.” Our 
store cattle must be increased from every available source, so 
long as we are assured that they will not bring in cattle 
plague or pleuro- pneumonia. If this is not done there will 
be little hope of meat becoming cheaper, although feeding 
stuffs may fall in price in consequence of the superior hay, 
turnip, and root crops w r hich w r e possess over those of last 
and some former years. 
At home the disease exists in no less than fifty-nine coun- 
ties, and is rapidly attaining the dimensions it acquired in 
1870, when in the corresponding week to that in which we 
write, the entries numbered upwards of 2000. Several pro- 
secutions for moving diseased cattle are pending, and in one 
which took place last week in Liverpool, an Irish dealer was 
fined £5 and costs for exposing diseased beasts in Stanley 
Market. 
From the Continent we learn that the disease is less pre- 
valent in Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Sicily. It has also 
abated in New York. 
SHEEP-SCAB. 
Both at home and abroad the scab of sheep seems to be 
much more rife than of late. In Great Britain the malady 
exists in eighteen counties, and very many large flocks are 
seriously affected. According to the official Gazettes of 
Stettin, Stralsund, and Koslin, in Pomerania ; sheep-scab 
prevails in five districts in the Department of Stettin, and in 
two of Koslin. 
It will be seen by reference to another part of our journal 
that, by an Order of Council of August 5th, the local 
authority can now make special regulations for the dressing 
or dipping of affected sheep, and also for the cleansing and 
disinfecting of places which they may have occupied. It is 
to be hoped that these means, rightly employed, will go far 
to keep in check this very serious disease. 
