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cepting Siberia, suffers continually immense losses by this 
formidable plague—losses all the more sensibly felt as they 
interfere most disastrously with agricultural work. With¬ 
out referring to accidental causes of mortality, it is asserted 
that bovine pest alone causes an annual loss in Russia of 
not less than 300,000. This loss weighs heavily upon the 
productive forces of the Empire—that is to say, upon the 
sources of public wealth. In certain localities measures 
have been taken to limit the action of the epizootic, but 
these measures do not always succeed, partly because there 
exist sources of propagation of the epizootic of which the 
extinction does not depend upon the action of the zemtsos, 
and partly because the zemtsos do not hold the same 
opinion as to the best means to compass the end sought. 
Owing to this latter consideration, it often happens that 
the pecuniary resources of the zemtsos have been ex¬ 
pended to no purpose. The Voix refers to the rapid and 
notable advance in the price of meat arising from the dimi¬ 
nution of horned cattle, and from the risks undergone in the 
movement of cattle by reason of the extreme contagiousness 
of the epidemic. The Commission has for its object to 
study the existing law relating to cattle diseases, to examine 
the routes now commonly traversed by cattle in the ordinary 
course of traffic with a view to their regulation, to ascertain 
the opinions of local authorities as to the measures for 
arresting the epizootic, and particularly as to indemnifying 
owners for the cattle killed as a measure of safety, and, 
finally, to study the regulations as to commerce in cattle 
existing in adjacent countries. The Voix states that the 
report of the Commission will shortly be published, and it 
expresses a hope that the present year will see the adoption 
of measures calculated to limit, and perhaps ultimately ex¬ 
tinguish, the ravages of this epizootic.” 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
Pleuro-pnetjmonia is reported to have broken out in the 
State of New Jersey, U.S., and to have caused the death of 
many cattle. We extract the following from the c Chamber 
of Agriculture Journal 
“ Lung distemper, so fatal to horned cattle, and which 
caused serious havoc in the barony of Iverk and the Welsh 
mountains some three years ago, has again made its appear¬ 
ance in the south of the county of Kilkenny. Already ten 
