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by its fatal ravages; and thousands have to live on the carcasses of 
diseased animals without knowing of it, instead of the wholesome 
food we have been so long accustomed to in this country. 
Now, as the admission of foreign cattle duty-free is to be 
brought before the House Some of these weeks, I would humbly 
suggest, as a means of putting a stop to its future introduction 
from the continent, that petitions be got up all over the country 
to bring in a clause in the bill, “That no foreign cattle be 
allowed to be landed in any port of Great Britain or Ireland without 
lying in quarantine for thirty days, and then undergoing a most 
minute inspection by qualified persons appointed by the Govern- 
ment; and, in the event of any cases of pleuro-pneumonia occurring 
either in the passage or under quarantine, to be subjected to either 
thirty days, or be sent back whence they came from, at the option 
of the owner;” as the disease, in all cases that have come under 
my notice, will be apparent in about thirty days after contagion; 
and thus, although we may have to fight against what we have got 
of it, we may escape the consequences of its farther introduction. 
Hoping that these remarks will be thought worthy a place in 
your widely-circulated columns, and that they may be the means 
of arousing my fellow-countrymen to a sense of the danger of allow- 
ing the spread of so formidable a disease to continue, 
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 
A Perthshire Farmer. 
THE VETERINARIAN, APRIL 1, 1846. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
We congratulate Mr. Baker, and Messrs. Anderson and Cherry 
too, on the accession of strength, small though it be, which our pre- 
sent Number shews in the cause of the Veterinary Annuity Fund. 
It is true we would fain, ere this, have received expressions of 
assent and support from quarters whose countenance must be ac- 
knowledged by us all to be highly conducive, if not absolutely 
necessary, to the success of such a project as Mr. Baker’s: as 
matters stand, however, we will put the most favourable interpre- 
tation on their epistolary silence, and suppose they are waiting the 
arrival of the time when, by word of mouth, they can manifest 
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