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cattle — the mouth and foot disease ; I would also include 
others. 
29. What precautions do you think you could take ? — 
Similar to those that apply to the smallpox in sheep. 
30. What are they? — The infliction of a penalty of £20 in 
the event of these animals being depastured on open land, or 
being sent to market and exposed for sale; in fact, if sold in 
any way. 
31. Have you read the provisions of this Bill? — I have. 
32. Do you approve of them ? — I approve of them as far 
as they go ; but 1 think it necessary that the Bill should be 
extended in many important particulars. 
33. Chairman. — You see nothing objectionable in the clauses 
of the Bill as far as it goes? — Nothing objectionable. It is 
necessary to add other diseases to those that are named. I 
think that in legislating in a matter of this kind, we should 
have special diseases named, rather than use such indefinite 
terms as “other contagious or infectious disorders.” 
34. You would specify every disease to Avhich the Act 
applied, and include none except those named? — 1 would 
specify all those, and leave in the words “other infectious 
and contagious diseases.” I do not see any objection to those 
words, taken in conjunction with others. 
35. You would make it more explicit by introducing the 
names of other disorders ? — I would. 
36. Mr. Ball. — What are they ? — After glanders, I would 
introduce farcy, being a disease to which horses are very 
liable, equally infectious with glanders, and perhaps identical 
with it, as is shown by the fact that if you take the matter of 
farcy, and inoculate a healthy horse, it is more than probable 
that you will produce in the animal glanders ; and if you take 
the matter of glanders from a horse, and inoculate another 
horse, it is just possible you may produce farcy. I mention 
this to show the identity that exists between these two 
diseases, and consequently the necessity of embracing farcy 
with glanders. 
37. Lord Naas. — Are you aware that there is at present in 
existence an Act as to glanders ? — I am aware that a few 
years after the passing of the Sheep and Cattle Contagion 
Bill glanders was introduced by a separate clause. 
38. And any person bringing a glandered horse into a 
market for sale, or turning a glandered horse into a public 
pasture, should be fined a sum not exceeding £20; do not 
you think that is sufficient? — I would add farcy to 
glanders. 
39. Is all farcy contagious? — The term “farcy,” like many 
