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calls for some means to be adopted to check the practice of 
clearing out diseased herds, and sending the infected animals 
over here. It is well known that so long as a strict exami¬ 
nation was made of all cattle about to be exported to Eng¬ 
land, both farmers and dealers ceased almost entirely to 
continue the practice for fear of detection. Portal examina¬ 
tion should be at once re-established, and especially now that 
in England legal power exists to deal with animals the 
subjects of pleuro-pneumonia in a manner which cannot fail 
to most effectually limit the spread of the disease, unless the 
attacks are kept up by importing fresh cases of the malady. 
Besides the risk of receiving infected cattle from Ireland, 
another exists of their introduction from the Continent, as 
pleuro-pneumonia is reported to have broken out in the 
neighbourhood of Bremen haven. 
MOUTH AND FOOT DISEASE. 
This malady is more widely spread in Great Britain and 
on the Continent than it has been since the winter of 
1861-2. In England alone, both cattle and pigs in not less 
than a dozen counties are severely affected with the disease, 
and in Scotland a similar state of things prevails. 
On the continent, Belgium, Holland, Schleswig-Holstein, 
Prussia, and Saxony are known to be infected, and, doubt¬ 
less, other countries also, although they have not at present 
been reported. 
The malady is believed to have been brought into Saxony 
as early as June last by some herds of cattle belonging to 
Bohemian cattle dealers. Goats and pigs, as well as cattle and 
sheep, have heen attacked in large numbers in Saxony, and 
by the importation of infected pigs from that country, 
Schleswig-Holstein is said to have received the disease. 
Various reports have been circulated to the effect that 
Spanish cattle had spread the affection in different parts of 
England, and in one case in particular, which occurred at 
Aylesbury, it was stated that the outbreak had been dis¬ 
tinctly traced to Spanish cattle being brought near to the 
farm where the disease broke out. We have taken some 
trouble to arrive at the facts of this case, and can state 
that there exists no foundation whatever for the opinion. 
Tlie Spanish cattle in question were landed at South¬ 
ampton, on June 7th, examined and passed as being free 
from disease. Twenty-eight of them were bought by a butcher 
