The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-21 00:00:00

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,Tllll CATTLE PLAGUE.

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rowitto letter, oontaining certain further
thsgelitioes, bee teas otheerearthle the Clerk et the Conseil
by Professor Simonds :
" Royal VothriuM7 College, Assert 18.
" am sorry to have eitteletin you that, up to the
preset time, there la to dkeinwtiod is the spread of the
tattle plague, and that, under them nafortunate einem.
olances, 1 would suggest to Individual settle owneve--in
addition to the regulations of the other in sotheil of he-
art 11,1866—the absolute nemmity of adopting the fol.
kyles preesutioes foe the purpose ot arreettor the promo
the disease:
"1. That all precis should abstain as much ea possible
bees the purchase of 'store stock' in fairs and markets, and
thicald pot purchase from cattle dealers without a warranty
agaivet the dimes° ; and that all Lowly-purchased cattle, of
overy,kind, be kept apart from others, tot a period of not
ens thee twelve to fourteen days. 2. That cattle, the sub-
ject', Ot this disease, should not be allowed to tussle in any
meadow et pasture umbra they oat be Methatly
imitated from all other wheals, am well as kept
at u distance of notes than a huadred yards
peat. all roads sloes cattle may be driven.
3, gist in districts where there are unotoloesd commons,
os which cattle, the property of different mimes, are pas-
tured, no nuleh cows, or other animals of the oz tribe, should
be alltmed to travel, day by day, to and from the oommoa,„
daring the mistimes of the cattle plague in the neighbour.
booed ; end that in the event of the disease prevailing on
'inmost farms, or plasma contiguous to the common, the I
tattle pasturing thereon should be removed, ea soon se pm- I
sable, to the uremia's et their respective owners. 4. That
timely animal which is violently attacked with the disease,
bj,Wlled and buried without delay,* end that the akin be
plaiiid'in acme disinfecting acid before being sent off the
premises. 5. That no eateeek he allowed to so near to the
burial plum until several weeks have elapsed. 6. That no
pram who has the charge of the sick cattle be allowed to
go our the healthy cues, and that all indirect
conuouaketioa by Pop, or other animals,
between
Ike !elected and the healthy cattle, be strictly prevented.
7. That all healthy cattle, after removal from the diseased,
be well washed and clewed. 8. That no fodder or straw,
which has been mad about infected cattle, be taken to
other animals, or even thrown into the fold yard, or upon
the miners heap, until it be first ineorporated with ether
ride of lime, or some other dlelefectiog powder. When
practicable it is desirable that all mob fodder and straw
should be boat. 9. That all manure in the sheds or stables
occupied by diseased cattle be daily sprinkled with
some disinfectant. and that DO evacuations of the diseased
be removed without being that thoroughly disiofected.
10. That ie all oases in which it is determined to slaughter
thumb which have bees on a farm or premises where the
disease has broken out, but which animals are believed at
the time to be healthy, end fit for beema food, they be
emit, with all due care and caution, direct to the Dearest
slaughter-house, if sot killed on the premises, end as •
farther precaution thole skies be placed en some disinfecting
fluid. 11. That although experience has shows all animals
of the ox tribe, whatever may be their age, sex, or midi-
boo, to be susceptible of the action of the infection, still it
is very desirable that every cause which tends to weaken
the conatitutios should be carefully avoided. Proteetiou
from inclement weather, sopplyiag animals with nutritious
food, such as cake or core, aid especially with pare water,
me imperatively demanded at a jumbo, like the basest.
Several of the foregoing aunt Miens, as you are aware, are
embodied in my former letter oa this subject ; others of
them, however, are Dew, and some are modified to meet the
provisions of the sew Order in 000nril.—I am, Sir, your
obedient mama, "Jas. B. SIMODDO."

• "Is tows dairies, the salmis to be mot to the
backer. or manure inaoufactarer, if time be no owevemiesce
for belying them.

The country papers teem with notices of the
anseliage which are daily held to establish insurance so-
cieties, to enforce the law or to disseminate informatioa.
It eettainly eaanot be raid that the humus show either
apathy or want of intelligesee. On he
mootra every
effort seems to be making to preveat the spread of the
pestilence ; but we have not space at oar command to oaks
snore into detail.

A meeting, conveued by Mr. W. M. Foster-Mel- I
Her; the high sheriff, was held ea Saturday, at the Carty.
hall, Oxford, to raider the propriety of pressed* a loyal
and &tidal adds,' to her Majeety, breeching her to give
orders for all possible amasser to be rhea to check, as
tar as may be, the cattle dress' sow prevailing in several i
parts of the ocustry. sad also praying her Majesty, if the
present laws aro insuerient, to take such immediate steps
as may be orded to remedy the defeat.
Amorpt the influentiel guillemot present were Mr. J.
W. Heeler, M.P., Colonel Fans, M.P., Sir H. Dorbwwd,
J. iOgilvy, Captain Owen, Mr. Hugh Hantereley, Mr.
Haphis (the Mayor), Mr. Sawyer, the Rev. H. O.
• ey, de.
• Is accordance with the object of the meeting, a suitable
address to the Qaer was adopted.
An adjourned meeting of the members of the Oxford
Cattle Plague A saeciatra wen afterwards held at hie Golden
Crews Hotel, when varicrea suggestirs with regard to the
improverneut of the ruled ware taken into consideration.

Lrrffitaoola
Our correspondent writes :—" Notwithstanding •
that gnarly all sat the English ports to whin foreige cattle 1
are imported have been more or leas ' infected' with the
• rinderpest,' Liverpool eo far has bees perfectly free from
any symptoms of the disease. There is no doubt that,
owls to a proper and timely precaution, a great deal has
been effected is securing the cowkeopms from say lees.
Not only has the corporatioo been active in the matter by
the appointment of notified officials, but private isdivi.
duals, who import large numbers of foreign besets. tape.
day front the Spanish poets, have also their owe vete&
nary surgeons to inspect the tuck so it comes whore.
Thera measures have bees Wooded with great sums% sod
cattle which have been forted ashabled by dosses have
Imo at ouee disposed of, and soI allowed to cconmosioato 1
with the more healthy, stock. n regard to the was
import.'l into Liverpool from Ireland a most remarkable
sod satisfactory forint* is enterable. le Ireland the stock
this year is the healthiest ever karma. All kinds of pleura
pneemonia have disappeared ; and this, with the rigid
surveillance exercised by the Irish cattle dealers is the
selection of their marketable stock, shows that the ' rinder.
pest ' can be, if proper measures are takes, confined within
the place in which it first makes ita apprentice. It haviag
been stated that the Spanish bans—the ' Irma horse'—are
troubled with the plague, we can assert upon the best
authority that the setpoints from Oporto and other places
an the finest and healthiest that an be procured, sod that
no sign whatever of any fatal inseam has, up to the last
advice, from Span sad Portapl, lama dissovared is either
000stry."

r A CATTLE PLAOIII lit AMMitICA.—The Memphis
BuUdist of July 25 has the following :—We leers from a
gentleman who has just returned from Philips and Critten-
den Couoties, Annulate. that the planters in the Mississippi
bottoms have berm, and are still, suffering severe lose by
the death of their horses, males, cattle, and hogs, by a I
singuier dinue, which is carrying them off in gran num- 1
bars. la the early part of the summer an incredible sum-
Wel black gaits mule their appearance is the bottems,
end attacked not only cattle and honor, but also birds,
mild turkeys, deer and other game, with such
ferocity as to kill, is a short time. quite a number of
them. After the distopearaDos of the goats, a disease
broke out among the cattle, horses, and bogs, and has been
mem for some time, and is still prevailing, though the is-
&cinema now are that the epidemic —for each it appears to
In—is abating. This disease resembles very. closely erysi- .
pelts, the attacked swelling up, sometimes, under the Invest,
et other timer on the side, but more frequently under the
throat, and dying generally in from twenty-four to forty-
sight Louis after being attacked. Oar informant conversed
with sotoral intelligent planters who have bees great suf-
ferers I y this streago disease among them a physician emi-
nent in Ms profession, and all of them concurred in the
opinion that it eau closely allied to erysipelas, and also
that the visitation of the gnats is the early part of the
summer had some naltnnOS in gnodociog the disease.
It is thought that the great amount of ponce which
was necessarily absorbed into the system by the Mk of the •
gust—which is a most poisonous insect—is developing itself
on the disease which is non ravaging the whole animal
race in that region. SODA cases, when taken in time, are
eared by precisely the same treatment practised in cams of
erysipelas, painting with iodise the effected parts been'
• fine effect. The loss of stock, itspesisity of hogs, has bees
very great. One plaster in Walnut Bead has lost ever I
two husdrel hogs sad seven honn and mules, beside ores .
and milk cows. Another, linos a abort distance above the
ON sawed, has last thirteea males and bones, and hop I
and cattle in proportion. Thie is only two of many similar
isamaces of losses sustained. Os Saturday morning it was
repbrted that two moo, who had been treating their cattle
for the prevailing disease, bad been rmilarly attacked,
th •,•••o.‘ R.ellinv np in an alallnine Monier.
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