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inferior region, are always very small and round. The bone of the snout 
is their base, as well as two cartilaginous pieces, thick and wide, which 
from that bone run to the cartilaginous appendages of the inferior tur¬ 
binated bones, and are continued with those. 
[to be continued.] 
RINDERPEST. 
ITS PROPAGATION.—No. 1. 
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[From the National Live Stock Journal, Chicago , ///.] 
The recent extension of the rinderpest in Western Europe has 
raised a well-founded apprehension of its importation into the Western 
Continent; and as our Treasury officials have manifestly failed to ap¬ 
preciate the situation, and have issued orders calculated only to beget a 
false sense of security, it seems well that the conditions which favor the 
progress of the plague should be plainly stated, so that our readers may 
have an intelligent conception of the situation. With a value in live 
stock approximating closely to $2,000,000,000, and with an annual ex¬ 
port of animals and their products amounting—as per last year’s statis¬ 
tics—to $120,437,718, we can hardly suppose that the financial depart¬ 
ment of our Executive can be indifferent to the urgent need of protect¬ 
ing our flocks and herds against the ravages of plagues of foreign origin; 
and it seems, therefore, that their failure must be charged upon ignor¬ 
ance rather than want of good will. But this view of the matter renders 
the system only the more preposterous, which intrusts the present and 
prospective interests of this vast source of national wealth—this one 
solid foundation of all agricultural prosperity—to the hands of a mere 
financier, who is utterly ignorant of the exotic pestilences by which it 
is continually threatened. In purely financial matters, or in those which 
deal only with inanimate forms of wealth—lands, mines, railroads, man¬ 
ufactures, and the like—a false step may be redeemed with comparative 
ease; but in the case of pestilence in live stock, the germs may be speed¬ 
ily diffused over our boundless States and Territories, and challenge the 
most strenuous efforts and liberal outlay of the nation to extirpate them. 
A sudden loss of material wealth by governmental mismanagement can 
be fairly appreciated, and its various bearings, and the duration of its 
