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setting forth that the animals have been kept for at least 
three months either in Moravia or Bohemia_, previous to their 
export therefrom, are demanded. The animals must also 
travel in special railway trucks, and notice be given of the 
intention to send them on. 
The disease alluded to in our last month’s issue as existing 
on the southern shores of the Black Sea, would appear, from 
more recent information, to be cattle plague. Egypt is thus 
again threatened with a reintroduction of the disease, as her 
supplies are almost continuously being drawn from Asiatic 
Turkev. * 
PLEUBO-PNEUMONIA. 
Our information, both from Great Britain and Ireland, 
with regard to this disease, is less satisfactory than could have 
been wished. 
In Ireland the malady is more prevalent and fatal than it has 
been for many years. It has also broken out in the great grazing 
county of Meath. Not less than forty counties in England 
and Scotland are the seat of the disease, and as many as 165 
fresh outbreaks have been reported as occurring in one week 
during the past month. As might be expected, the question 
of inoculation as a prophylactic has been revived, and new 
experiments in this direction are reported as about to be 
commenced. To this we see no objection, but to be of value 
in deciding the questio vexata still attaching to inoculation, 
they must be on a more extended scale and carried over a 
far greater length of time than heretofore, as well as be under¬ 
taken by persons who are careful not to come with a small 
amount of experience to hasty conclusions. Pleuro-pneu- 
monia frequently ceases in a herd spontaneously after having- 
carried off a few animals. The disease will likewise remain 
dormant, in some instances, even in a small herd of fifteen 
or twenty animals, for ten or twelve weeks. 
It is things of this kind which, unless properly considered, 
are likely to lead to conclusions the very opposite to truth. 
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DISEASE. 
This disease would appear to have reached its climax in 
Great Britain, and now to have begun its decline. According 
