SMALLPOX OF SHEEP, 
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We learn that the cattle disease_, alluded to in our last as 
prevailing at Erzeroom and the surrounding districts^ has 
assumed a less severe type, and that fewer animals are 
attacked with it. These reports, however, must be received 
with caution; the true state of things being often concealed 
by interested parties. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
Communications have reached us during the past month 
from several parts of the country describing the progress of 
pleuro-pneumonia. With few exceptions, the appearance of 
the disease in the respective neighbourhoods is due to the 
purchase of new stock, and particularly Irish cattle. 
One correspondent, writing from Yorkshire, says that six 
separate outbreaks of pleuro-pneumonia have occurred in the 
neighbourhood of Skipton, chiefly among young Irish stock 
bought for grazing; and another states that the disease was 
brought on the farm by some cattle which had been sent to 
market out of a lot of diseased animals. The malady has 
usually been fully established in from three to six weeks after 
the introduction of fresh stock on the premises. The dis¬ 
ease we also learn is very rife in the London dairies. 
SMALLPOX OF SHEEP. 
In our remarks in last months issue, we stated that 
Schleswig Holstein was reported as being free from sheep-pox, 
although many adjacent districts were still infected with this 
disease. 
It is now admitted that the malady had not disappeared 
from Schleswig Holstein, nor do we think, from all we can 
learn, that it is likely to do so for some time. Our importa¬ 
tions of sheep are large from that country, and great care 
will have to be exercised lest we import the malady. We 
have reason to believe, however, that the authorities are fully 
alive to the importance of the subject, and prepared for all 
emergencies. 
