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store. This regulation, we believe, has been enforced, because 
it not unfrequently happens that, in accordance with custom, 
the whole of the hay of a farm is placed on strong floors 
above the cattle-sheds, and not put into ricks as in England. 
WURTEMBURG AND THE SURROUNDING GERMAN STATES. 
Wei earned from Professor Hering, of the Veterinary School 
at Stuttgardt, that, like Bavaria and other abjacent kingdoms 
and states, Wurtemburg had experienced no outbreak of the 
rinderpest since 1815, and that its existence at that time was 
also due to the movements of the Austrian army. The 
regulations of the sanitary police are almost identical with 
those in force in Bavaria, both with regard to the rinderpest 
and also pleuro-pneumonia. 
Cattle are reared in large numbers in this kingdom, and are 
fed for the market principally by the sugar-manufacturers, 
distillers, and brewers. When fat, they are exported for the 
supply of the French towns, and Paris in particular. With 
the exception of Swiss cattle, which are imported for the 
improvement of the native breeds, very few animals are sent 
into Wurtemburg from any other country. 
Rhenish Prussia. 
It could hardly have been expected that this province 
would be found otherwise than perfectly free from the cattle 
pest: indeed, in our inquiries of veterinary surgeons, it was 
somewhat singular that we did not meet with one who had 
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even seen a case of the disease. 
Our investigations into the extent of the malady may 
be said to have been here brought to a close, and to have 
shown amon<j other things, that even should a revival of the 
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export trade in cattle, which has been spoken of in a former 
part of this report, take place to England through Holland, 
by means of the Rhine, there would be no risk incurred of 
introducing the rinderpest thereby, unless circumstances 
should unfortunately arise, by which it became as rife as it 
was in the years 1813, -14, and -15. 
• As the limits which are ordinarily assigned to reports of 
this description may have possibly been exceeded, we feel 
that it would not be right to make any additional observations 
which are not of a practical character, and therefore we shall 
content ourselves by appending a summary of the facts 
which have been ascertained by us in the fulfilment of our 
mission. 
