PLEUROPNEUMONIA IN CATTLE. 
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of cattle at that port since February, 1881, and consultation with 
Mr. Rowley, agent of the American line of steamers, and Messrs. 
Herkness, the principal Philadelphia cattle importers, elicited the 
fact that there is little probability of any new importations of 
this kind for some considerable time to come at that port. 
The regular steamship line to Philadelphia decline to carry cattle 
on their passenger steamers; it is only therefore, large importa¬ 
tions, of one hundred head and upward, which will go far to pay 
for the use of a special steamer, which can be profitably brought 
to that port, and importers, resident even in the city of Philadel¬ 
phia, prefer, in the present state of things, to import by way of 
ISew York or Baltimore. We have therefore ventured to advise 
the omission of Philadelphia from the list of quarantine stations 
until there shall be a certainty of an influx of foreign cattle at 
that point. 
CONDITIONS REQUISITE TO SECURE THE ADMISSION OF AMERICAN 
STORE CATTLE TO GREAT BRITAIN. 
As stated in our report of last year, after the orders of the 
English Privy Council in 1879 for the slaughter at the ports of 
landing of all American cattle, and in consequence of it, this 
important branch of our live-stock industry suffered a yearly loss 
of two million dollars. This, however, was on fat cattle only, 
and makes no account of the traffic in lean American cattle, 
which, in the absence of the restrictions now imposed, would be 
sought in large numbers to be fattened on the pastures of Great 
Britain, nor of the shorthorns and other thorougbred stock which 
were formerly exported in considerable numbers to England for 
breeding purposes. As the immediate result, therefore, of the 
application of the “ slaughtering clause ” to American cattle, the 
United States are now suffering a commercial yearly loss of 
between two and three millions of dollars, in addition to all the 
direct losses in disease, death, and incidentals consequent on the 
persistence of the scourge of lung plague among our home herds. 
It is vain to hope that England will remove this restriction so 
long as we fail to show that the last vestige of the infection has 
been wiped out from oar land. England has had a far longer 
