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sumed fact that the cattle which first became infected in their 
own country are as a matter of course brought on to London, 
altogether ignoring the probability of such animals falling 
sick before they are shipped, and being disposed of while the 
remainder of the herd—a certain number of them having 
received the infection from those originally diseased—will be 
shipped for England, and thus arrive in our ports two days, 
instead of six or seven, after infection. In this way the Sile¬ 
sian cattle, which are said to have imported the disease in 
1867 , may not, and most likely did not, show any symptoms 
of ill-health on their arrival in this country, although some 
of them died here so shortly afterwards that there was no 
possibility of their having been infected after landing in 
London, where, indeed, cattle plague did not then exist. 
It is to be hoped, in view of the steady progress of the 
plague in the Austrian provinces, that every care will be taken 
to prevent its introduction here, but it is quite impossible to 
doubt the extent of the risk which w^e must continue to incur, 
so long as the malady exists in countries adjacent to those 
from which we now obtain large supplies of foreign cattle.— 
The Gardeners^ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette. 
CATTLE DISEASES IN THE UNITED STATES. 
A MEETING of the Cattle Commissions^ Committee, during 
the second week of December, at Springfield, Illinois, was 
attended by delegates from Illinois, Missouri, low’a, Wiscon¬ 
sin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, 
Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and the province of 
Ontario. Hon. Lewis F. Allen, of New York State, was 
chosen to preside. The object of the meeting was the adop¬ 
tion of recommendations to be presented to the Legislatures 
of the several States for their action, involving the following 
leading measures : 
1. The appointment of commissioners for five years, to 
report annually ; whose duty is to prevent the spread of dan¬ 
gerous diseases and protect the public from diseased meat; 
with such assistants and legal powers as are necessary; who 
are to give public notice of the existence of dangerous diseases, 
and who may place diseased animals in quarantine, or, if 
necessary, kill them, the county or State in that case paying 
for them at a fair appraisal. 
2. The commissioners or their assistants to have the power 
to inspect all cattle brought within the boundaries of the 
