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PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
In various parts of the country the contagious lung dis¬ 
temper continues to produce considerable mischief, but there 
has not been such an increase of the disease anywhere as to 
call for special notice. Many outbreaks are undoubtedly 
kept secret, but making due allowance for the suppression of 
much information, which is only to be obtained by close 
inquiry, we do not apprehend that there is anything alarming 
in our present situation in regard to this disease. 
Contagious pleuro-pneumonia exists among cattle in some 
parts of the Continent, and probably to a serious extent in 
Holstein. Recently animals affected with the disease have 
been landed in the country from Husum, as appears in the 
official return. 
GLANDERS. 
The unusual prevalence of this disease to which we 
recently directed the notice of our readers still demands 
very serious attention. For a very long period we have not 
known so many cases of glanders and farcy to exist among 
the horses in and around the metropolis. Few of these cases 
are reported officially, and as the <c Contagious Diseases 
(Animals) Act” does not recognise farcy as being identical 
with glanders—a mere variety in fact of the disease—so the 
owners of “ farcied horses” do not trouble themselves about 
the requirements, and fines, and penalties of the law. As 
long as this state of things continues, so long shall we witness 
periodic outbreaks of this malignant and contagious malady. 
OUTBREAK OF INFLUENZA AMONG THE 
HORSES IN NEW YORK AND OTHER 
AMERICAN CITIES. 
The accounts which have reached us from New York with 
regard to the prevalence of influenza among the horses in 
that city and Boston represent the disease as having reached 
most alarming proportions without there being, at present, 
any indications of its abatement. The great towns of 
