FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
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From the Chamber of Agriculture Journal we learn that 
“ the disease has made its appearance on the farms in the 
Aylesbury district, and is spreading with fearful rapidity, 
scarcely a parish escaping. Already upwards of thirty 
parishes have been reported, including Hartwell, Aston 
Abbotts, Stone, Dinton, Weston Turville, Cublington, Wing, 
Linslade, Whitchurch, Bierton, Aston Clinton, Weedon, 
Quarendon, Winchendon, Long wick, &c. On some farms 
the disease is of a very virulent type, and large numbers 
of the cattle have had to be destroyed. Sheep have also 
been affected. The disease has once more made its appear¬ 
ance in the neighbourhood of Bath. The disease is fast 
spreading, and in many places has appeared in its most viru¬ 
lent form. The agriculturists of the district are greatly con¬ 
cerned at the prospect of having to meet for the third conse¬ 
cutive season the expense, losses, and inconvenience which 
these visitations entail. 
The foot-and-mouth complaint is still spreading fast in 
Dorset, above a thousand head of stock being affected. In 
Wimborne division alone 112 cattle, 470 sheep, and 37 swine 
are suffering on seventeen farms. During the past week 
there were fresh outbreaks at Sturminster, Marshall, Lytchet, 
Maltravers, Cow Grove, Holt, Hinton, Martell and Langham 
—Wimborne; Pinford Farm, Sherborne; Buckland New¬ 
ton, Cerne ; Duddle Dairy, Dorchester; and Melbury and 
Bourton, Shaftesbury. At Bridgewater during the past week 
fresh outbreaks have taken place on twenty-five farms, and 
the following stock are affected:—Bulls, 4; cows, 193; oxen, 
9; heifers, 53 ; sheep, 254. This is a large increase on the 
last return. There is every prospect of the disease spreading 
through the whole district, unless the farmers take care to 
keep animals that have been affected isolated until the dis¬ 
ease has quite disappeared. In Norfolk the official returns 
made up to Saturday week with reference to live-stock dis¬ 
eases exhibit an increase of a very serious character. Thus, 
the number of cases of foot-and-mouth disease recorded in 
the county for the week was no less than 10,312, as com¬ 
pared with 5102 in the week ending June 8th, 4117 in the 
week ending June 1st, 1603 in the week ending May 25th, 
and 1809 in the week ending May 18th. The attacks of 
pleuro-pneumonia recorded in the week ending June 15th 
were 12 in number, as compared with 12, 14, 3, and 9, in 
the four previous weeks respectively. In Essex, although 
the foot-and-mouth disease is still on the increase in the 
Dengie Hundred, as regards the number of animals affected, 
we are happy to learn that some of the more violent symp- 
