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I fear they will bring us into collision with the farmers, if we 
strictly do our duty. I am sure we ought to be highly thankful to 
the “ Agriculturist’s Insurance Company,” as it promises to disse- 
minate a knowledge of the best remedies for the maladies incident 
to cattle, their prevention, and treatment,” after having received 
it from us. Let us, I say, have fair play ; then will we do our 
duty to the farmer and the associations, but we must not be tam- 
pered with or trodden upon. 
THE CATTLE EPIDEMIC. 
In a former number of The Veterinarian, we published from 
the July number of the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture and the 
Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scot- 
land, the correspondence that had passed between that society and 
the Board of Trade, in reference to the cattle epidemic which was 
then supposed to be committing its ravages among the marshes of 
Hungary, and extending northward and westward into the Prussian 
dominions, and into the states of the Netherlands. Since then 
another communication has been received from the Board of Trade, 
in reference to the subject; but coming from the British Consul’s 
office at Odessa, it gives an account of the disease as observed 
there, and along the shores of the Black Sea, and also points out its 
course northwards, through Bessarabia, Podolia, and Volhynia, 
and by Poland and Prussia to the shores of the Baltic. This in- 
teresting communication has also appeared in the October number 
of the Quarterly Journal; and, besides the intrinsic interest which 
it in itself possesses, it affords ample evidence of the wretched 
state in which veterinary science exists in this vast imperial 
eastern empire. 
Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, 
Whitehall, 29th July, 1845. 
Sir, — With reference to the correspondence which has taken 
place with you on the subject of the epidemic disease said to be 
raging among cattle on the continent, I am directed by the Lords 
of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you, 
for the information of the Highland and Agricultural Society of 
Scotland, the copy of a report which has been received from Mr. 
Consul Yearnes, at Odessa, upon this subject. 
I am, Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
J. MACGREGOR. 
Si r Charles Gordon. 
