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closely approaching a panic. The agricultural papers were full 
of the subject. State boards of agriculture convened and dis¬ 
cussed the subject. A convention of delegates from different 
States met at Albany, N. Y., and it was the engrossing theme for 
every local farmers’ club along the lines of infection. This in¬ 
vasion, imported into Montreal with two English cows, fortunately 
occurred in autumn, and the long seclusion of the herds during 
the ensuing winter virtually stamped it out, the infection not 
having extended beyond herds in enclosed pasturages or build¬ 
ings. Most of our farmers are as ignorant of the disease to-day 
as they were in 1871, and any new invasion could not fail to pro¬ 
duce a similar excitement and consternation. It should be added 
that our connection with the States as well as the United States 
brings us constant complaints of diseases supposed to be con¬ 
tagious, and we have not found any evidence of the actual 
existence of the foot and mouth disease at any point among our 
home herds. We cannot pass unnoticed the two latest importa¬ 
tions of the disease from England. Two years ago the steam¬ 
ship France, of the National line, landed in New York a herd of 
Channel Island cattle suffering from foot and mouth disease. 
These were quarantined by the State authorities and the infection 
stamped out. The France, however, after an attempted disin¬ 
fection, shipped a cargo of American beeves for the return 
voyage, and these, on arrival in England, were condemned as 
being infected with foot and mouth disease. This was un¬ 
doubtedly contracted on board ship. The second case is that of 
the steamship Nessmore, which in March, 1883, landed in Balti¬ 
more a herd of Channel Island cattle suffering from foot and 
mouth disease. These again were secluded as soon as detected 
by the Pennsylvania authorities, and no evil consequences to our 
home herds can be traced. But the steamship Nessmore, after 
an attempted disinfection by the agents, shipped a cargo of 
American fat cattle, and these on arrival in England were found 
to be suffering from foot and mouth disease. This infection, un¬ 
questionably contracted on board ship, appears to have been the 
main, if not the sole, occasion of the recent questions and resolu¬ 
tion in the British Parliament. 
