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REPORT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 
information in regard to the properties of fats, Mr. Wilson 
kindly supplied me with a Treatise on Oils, by Jules de 
Fontenelle a Paris, from which I supply the following parti- 
culars : 
Reaumur. Olein . Stearine. 
Olive-oil congeals (solidifies) at a temperature of + 2 = 72 28 
Rape-oil „ „ — 5 = 51 46 
Linseed-oil „ „ — 22 No analysis. 
Olive-oil is by far the richest in olein, which accounts for 
its extended use in cooking, more especially on the continent, 
where it is a principal ingredient in culinary preparations. 
The analysis of rape-oil corresponds precisely in its pro- 
portion of olein and margerine with that of butter of fair 
quality. 
Jules de Fontenelle very properly observes that an analysis 
of each of the vegetable oils could not fail to be of the 
greatest interest. 
I may add that we agriculturists have a claim on our 
professors of chemistry to give their attention to like investi- 
gations. 
REPORT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE, STEPPE MURRAIN, 
OR RINDERPEST. 
By James Beart Simonds, Professor of Cattle Pathology 
in the Royal Veterinary College, London. 
Extracted from the North British Agriculturist. 
(' Continued from p. 162.) 
Without wishing to animadvert on the opinions of others, 
we hold that an equal amount of good would attend measures 
far less stringent ; and, if this be so, then a positive injury is 
inflicted on the country where they are enacted. Take, as 
one illustration, the quantity of food which is lost to the 
people by the burying of animals in whose system the 
malady has made but little progress. We are exceedingly 
jealous lest any observation of ours should be supposed to 
give encouragement to the sale of diseased meat ; but, 
