Translations and Reviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals. 
Journal de la Societe Agricole dt Vest de la Belgique. 
INQUIRY BY THE CENTRAL SOCIETY OE AGRICULTURE 
OE BELGIUM, INTO THE EEEICACY OE THE MEANS EM¬ 
PLOYED TO COMBAT EXUDATIVE PLEURO-PNEUMONIA 
IN HORNED CATTLE. 
At a meeting of the council of the society, held on 
December 7th, 1859, it was decided, on the proposition of 
M ons. T. Kint, of Naeyer, that an inquiry should be made 
into the means which had been employed up to the present 
time in Belgium, and also in other countries, in order to com¬ 
bat the spread of pleuro-pneumonia. 
In accordance with this decision, a special committee was 
appointed to inquire into the kind of investigation the society 
should adopt in order to collect all the information which was 
necessary to elucidate the question. 
At the meeting on the 2d ultimo, the committee reported 
that the plan of inquiry, offering the best chance of success, 
consisted in the preparing a series of questions to be answered 
by persons who were competent to give an opinion based 
upon both observation and experience. 
This report being adopted, led to the preparing and pub¬ 
lication of the following circular letter:— 
ce Sir, —Pleuro-pneumonia having existed among cattle for 
many years in almost every country of Europe, has, in Bel¬ 
gium in particular, destroyed a great many animals during 
the last thirty years. 
“The losses to the public caused by this calamity are very 
considerable, but for want of official statistics their amount 
has only been partially ascertained. Thus, in Belgium alone, 
the proprietors of affected cattle, being obliged to sell their 
animals at a depreciated price, have sustained an annual loss 
which may be estimated, in round numbers, at two millions. 
“The Belgium government spends yearly more than 
100,000 francs, as an indemnity for the affected cattle 
which are killed by the butchers. 
“In the low countries the losses are immense; and according 
