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and experiments, however, have satisfied him that the malady 
is infectious. 
He at first attributed the disease to the still-slop,” with 
which his stock was fattened, although he entertained many 
doubts, from the fact that cattle fed on similar food were not 
affected. He, however, instituted inquiries among farmers 
remote from distilleries, and who fed their hogs on corn 
exclusively, and found the mortality equally great in their 
droves. He then procured four or five perfectly healthy 
hogs and enclosed them in a u hospital pen” where many 
others had died. He fed them exclusively on corn and water. 
Tn a few days they sickened and speedily died, thus proving 
the infectious character of the disease. He also observed 
that hogs belonging to farmers along the road oil which the 
dead distempered hogs were hauled to be thrown away were 
swept off by scores, thus confirming his previous test. — 
Southern Planter . 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
THE APPREHENDED MURRAIN. 
ORDER IN COUNCIL. 
(Prom the Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday, April 3 — 
Saturday, April 4.) 
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 2d day of April, 
.1857. Present, the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in 
Council. 
Whereas it has been represented to Her Majesty that 
certain contagious or infectious disorders are now prevalent 
among cattle in certain countries or places bordering upon 
the Baltic Sea, and that there is danger of the said disorders 
being introduced into this country by means of cattle, and 
horns, hoofs, and raw or wet hides or skins of cattle, from 
such countries or places ; now, therefore. Her Majesty, by 
and with the advice of her Privy Council, doth order, and it 
is hereby ordered, that from and after the date hereof no 
cattle and no horns, hoofs, or raw or wet hides or skins of 
cattle, shall be imported or introduced into the united 
kingdom which shall come from or shall have been at any 
place within those territories of the Emperor of Russia, or of 
the King of Prussia, or of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg. 
