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FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
There have been several reported outbreaks of foot-and- 
mouth disease, which, on inquiry, have been found to be 
aphthous maladies of a non-contagious character. It is worthy 
of remark that many cases of aphthge have also been met with 
recently in swine. The eruption has been found on the 
outside of the mouth as well as in the mouth. These cases 
have hitherto only appeared among sheep and lambs. 
Facts and Observations. 
Cattle Diseases. —The British Medical Journal says 
that M. Poincare has met with, in condemned meat at the 
ablattoir at Nancy, elements which seemed to him to be para¬ 
sites not as yet described. In consequence of the analogy they 
showed to gregarines, he was led to consider whether he had 
not met with one of the phases or metamorphoses of the 
taenioids, and if it is not by this means that raw beef gives 
taenia to so many sufferers. M. Poincare also {Revue Scien- 
tifir[ue , July 31st) records the death from charbon of more 
than twenty cattle, caused by pasture covered with marsh-water 
containing bacteria. He verified the fact by inoculating with 
this water two guinea-pigs, which died in a very few days. 
Pleuro-pneumonia, how Spread. —Mr. Hugh Riding, a 
farmer at Rishton, was recently mulcted in penalties amount¬ 
ing to about £15 by the Blackburn magistrates. The offender, 
who had pleuro-pneumonia among his cattle, yet caused one of 
the animals to be driven to the market at Preston and placed 
there among healthy beasts. 
Loss of American Cattle in Transit. —TheLiverpool 
steamer es Thanemore ” was passed off Crookhaven on Sep¬ 
tember 7th, throwing overboard carcases of cattle. A telegram 
received in Liverpool says, the “ Thanemore ;; lost 225 cattle. 
The remainder of the animals were reported healthy. The 
steamer was en route from Baltimore to the Mersey. 
Wholsale Poisoning of Sheep. —It is reported that 
Mr. J. Housley, a farmer of Wellow, near Ollerton, has just 
lost 200 lambs. They were poisoned inadvertently through 
the administration of some mixture which a shepherd had 
prepared by a chemist at Mansfield, and which he declared 
he had used freely amongst flocks for many years. Shortly 
after the exhibition of the medicine the sheep were found 
lying dead all over the field. Mr. Housley estimates his loss 
at £250. 
