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manure, will each favor the retention of the contagion. Practically, this 
imports little to us, as on shipboard manure is disposed of daily in the 
easiest manner, by turning it into the ocean; yet it should render im¬ 
perative a very thorough cleansing and disinfection of ships in which 
any diseased animals may have arrived. 
FODDER. 
Fodder is of more practical importance, as being liable to be landed 
in variable quantity, along with stock brought to the country, and as 
capable of retaining. and transmitting the poison, though the animals 
with which it was imported may not be susceptible to its influence. 
Thus, horses and swine, though themselves incapable of taking the dis¬ 
ease, and cattle and sheep that are not susceptible to it, by reason of a 
special idiosyncrasy, or a former attack, may become the occasion of 
landing one or more bales of hay or straw which has been infected in 
the country of export, and has preserved the poison by reason of the 
closeness of the packing and the exclusion of air. 
Many examples of infection by hay are recorded. Buniva, Hurtrel 
d’Arboval, Huzard, Grognier, Reynal, etc., adduce instances of its con¬ 
veyance by the left hay of the commissary herds of the armies in the 
held—such herds being almost always infected in Europe. Vicq d’Azyr 
rubbed down a sick animal with wisps of hay, and then fed them to a 
healthy one, thereby conveying rinderpest; a second animal, which ate 
a portion of this hay, after it had been washed and cleaned, escaped. 
Haubner records an instance in which hay communicated rinderpest 
four months after it had been taken from an infected barn. In 1770, 
the disease was imported into Banff, Scotland, in hay imported from 
Holland, where the malady then prevailed. It should, therefore, be 
made imperative that no hay nor straw coming from an infected country 
should be landed, but rather burnt in the furnaces of the vessel, or on 
the quays. 
BLANKETS, BUCKETS, BRUSHES AND OTHER STABLE UTENSILS. 
There is comparatively little danger of these harboring the poison 
in cases in which imported stock have shown a perfect immunity from 
disease. But in cases in which their record is not altogether clear, or 
where blankets have been closely packed in chests or trunks, and thus 
shut out from the disinfectir action of the air, they ought to be sub 
jected to a purification before landing. Blankets may be boiled, hung 
up, unfolded over thick fumes of burning sulphur, or heated up to a 
