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F. S. B. 
According to No. 43 of the Prussian “ Instructions for the 
Execution of the Laws in reference to Animal Pests,” it is per¬ 
mitted that animals may again become objects of transport from 
a given stable after the lapse of six months from the last case of 
disease. Every person who has had experience in this disease 
knows that such animals frequently give occasion to the further 
extension of the disease: this fact is known not only to veterina¬ 
rians of experience, but to many breeders and cattle handlers as 
well. If we will attain control over this disease in a reasonable 
period, all animals which are not destined for immediate slaughter 
within the limits of the infested or previously infested grounds, 
must be restricted from all intercourse with others, or transport, 
if not during life at least for a period of not less than one year and 
a-Jialf from the time the last case of disease had disappeared 
from the point in question; the slaughtering of such animals 
should only be allowed under definite restrictions and official in¬ 
spection. 
Experience in Switzerland has proven this to be by far the 
cheapest manner to treat this disease. The remuneration which 
has been paid to cattle owners in the canton of Bern, for the fif¬ 
teen years from 1859 to 1874, for the obligatory slaughtering of 
cattle for the purpose of stamping out this disease, according to 
official reports, amounts to but 54,600 francs. If all the adjoin¬ 
ing lands had such laws, and as well executed, as the pest-sur¬ 
rounded Switzerland, the governmental remuneration for cattle 
peremptorily slaughtered for this disease in this State, as well as 
those surrounding it, would soon sink to null. To obtain this 
much-to-be-desired point, must be the end of our united endeavors. 
It is self-evident, that the exact execution of such laws would 
at first be bound with many and variable difficulties, as well as 
great expense, in different lands or provinces; however, we do 
not think a large capital could be better invested. Even in 
Switzerland, the exact execution of the laws in question meets 
opposition and difficulty; but these are always overcome, not 
only without disadvantage to the individual owner, but to the 
essential welfare of the State and its different departments. It 
}s for those interested in the discussion of the best means for 
