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CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Down to the middle of May we have information that the 
cattle plague was prevailing extensively in many parts of Lower 
Austria, Hungary, Transylvania and Galicia. It is also 
reported to be raging to an alarming extent in Turkey, in 
Asia, and great fears are entertained that it would again he 
conveyed to Egypt. During 1868, 35,519 animals are reported 
to have been attacked with the plague in Roumania and 
adjacent Turkish provinces, out of which 18,708 died. 
Reports have also reached us of the existence of a very 
fatal and contagious disease among both cattle and sheep 
in the country around Erzeroum in Asia Minor, but the in¬ 
formation is not sufficiently explicit to enable us, at present, 
to state the true nature of the malady. 
SMALLPOX OF SHEEP. 
According to our advices from the Continent, the smallpox 
of sheep prevails in many places, some of which are far 
removed from each other. Thus we learn that the malady 
still exists both in East and M^est Prussia, and that it was 
reappearing in other parts of the kingdom. Pomerania and 
Hanover are also infected. The province of Drenthe in 
Holland is still slightly suffering, while Schleswig-Holstein 
is reported as being free of the disease. The malady has also 
shown itself in Southern Italy, especially in the districts sur¬ 
rounding the towns of Cotrone and Gallipoli. In the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Brindisi fewer cases are said to exist than during 
last month. 
SCAB OF SHEEP. 
This parasitic and highly contagious disease is reported 
to be prevalent to an unusual extent in many parts of Northern 
Europe, especially in Pomerania. An export trade in cattle 
and sheep has, we learn, sprung up between Leith and Stettin, 
one of the chief ports of Pomerania, by which an increased 
risk is run of infected sheep finding their way here, as not 
only scab prevails in the neighbourhood of Stettin, but the 
smallpox is believed not to be yet extinct. 
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