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482 A SECOND PLAGtE OF TICKS IN KENT. 
toms have disappeared, and that no further cases of death 
have occurred. In South Lincolnshire, 349 cattle, 1881 
sheep, and 8 pigs were attacked with foot-and-mouth disease 
in the Spalding division during the week ending Saturday 
week, and 7 cattle, 2 sheep, and 1 pig, out of the above num¬ 
ber, died of the disease. From Oxfordshire the official 
returns made by the chief constable of Oxfordshire to the 
clerk of the peace, up to Saturday last, are as follows :— 
Foot-and-mouth disease: Cattle, 312; sheep, 894; pigs, 43. 
Forty-seven cases of scab in sheep. 
GLANDERS. 
This malignant and fatal disease appears likely to assume 
proportions which it has not recently attained, if we are to 
judge from the number of cases which have been recently 
brought under our notice. In very few instances are the provi¬ 
sions of the law complied with, the owners appearing to think 
thatitis quite unimportant as to how they deal with their glan- 
dered horses. Cab and omnibus establishments often suffer 
from the disease when other large depots of horses are quite 
free from it. Such, however, does not seem to be now the 
case. The affection exists among cart and heavy horses, and 
also among those of the lighter breeds. In numerous in¬ 
stances it is associated with farcy, but many of the cases have 
no such complication. 
Even in these days there is something to learn with regard 
to the pathology of glanders and farcy, which deep research 
and repeated experiments can alone determine. 
A SECOND PLAGUE OF TICKS IN KENT. 
Our readers will remember that, in the June number of 
the Veterinarian for 1869, we called attention to a plague of 
ticks (Ixodes ricinus ), then existing in the neighbourhood of 
Wingham, Kent, and were enabled to give several instances 
in which these parasites had attacked lambs in such numbers 
as to destroy the life of the animal by the persistent irritation 
they produced. 
Until now no further information has reached us with 
regard to a similar visitation, either there or elsewhere; but 
within the last few weeks many parts of the same county 
have again experienced losses among sheep and lambs from 
this cause. Nor have sheep alone suffered from an attack 
of ticks, as they have been found in abundance in the pas- 
