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Glandered Cattle. —A singular case was latelj’ tried in an 
English court. An officer of the society for the prevention of 
cruelty to animals, at Wolverhampton, had a couple of beeves, a 
cow and an ox, killed as unfit for human consumption because of 
a peculiar disease with which both were afflicted. At the trial to 
fix damages, Dr. J. Woodroffe Hill, F.R.C.V.S., testified that, 
in his opinion, the disease was glanders. Mr. C. A. Newnham, 
surgeon, and the magistrate who had condemned the animals, 
agreed with Mr. Hill. Mr. J. H. Lowe, medical officer of health 
for the borough, also considered it glanders. Hill said he had 
been in practice seventeen years, and had never seen a glandered 
cow until this one, but the disease had been produced in other 
ruminants, also in poultry and rabbits. Gogs, until recently, 
were considered exempt, but this year there was overwhelming 
evidence to the contrary, and so it might be in cattle. He could 
not tell the period of incubation of glanders in cattle. The de¬ 
fense produced several veterinary surgeons who agreed that a case 
of glanders in cattle had never been heard of, and that they did 
not believe it could be produced in them. Prof. Pritchard had 
attempted to inoculate a cow with glanders, but did not succeed. 
Prof. Simmons had also tried and failed. The finding was “there 
was a very strong presumption at present that glanders could not 
be found in a cow. Therefore, under these circumstances, and 
finding a difference of opinion in the medical evidence, he could 
not convict.” The testimony for the prosecution is exciting much 
discussion in veterinary circles in Great Britain. At this time, 
when glanders is so prevalent in this country, it is a matter of 
some importance for people to know if cattle are liable to its 
ravages. The Department of Agriculture hospital, at Washing¬ 
ton, will do well to institute a series of experiments in order to 
demonstrate the truth one way or the other .—Prairie Farmer. 
Foot and Mouth Disease. —Mr. Dodson, Chancellor of the 
Duchy of Lancaster, stated on the afternoon of August 17, in 
the House of Commons, in response to an inquiry by Mr. Duck- 
ham, that it was an undoubted fact that the foot and mouth 
disease had been carried from England to America. He said 
that the Canadian cattle now suffering with the disease at Bristol 
