The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1865-09-23
The .'Catale- -a.l.a:.lie'' la England. i.

ioi Spihe time ID come. indeed, were IN
not the case, our people could better affo,
to wait for fine cattle an indefinite perIo
than to risk importatiOns from either ii
Con nent or England. for the reason of tt
terrible cattle plague" row raging there s
disease last week. All later English paper
TEEN with accounts of the spread and fats
, character of the H1alaay.
, That onr readers may have some idea
this terrible scourge that IS. sweeping o
some of the finest stock of England, AMI 5
threatens TO visit the whole. Island, and il
order to show the people the necessity of a
once stopping all importa'ions 'ot stock, nov
that lower rates of exchange prevail, ant
that alarm among English breeders viii
induce them to part with their best animal
at very low rates, we will transfer from eX
changes some account OF the N; IGN OF thu
present ''ptague, It's nature, symptoms, etc.
Prot. Gamgee, one Of the best living veter
mary, surgeons, lately gave, at meeting ],
london, the following account of its appear
ancc in the diaries of that city:
The first appearance OF the maladv, as IA
as it can be at present traced, dates back t.
June u, when six cows, which had beer
purchased on the 10Th in the Metr cpolitar
Cattle Market. were seIz.d with the disease
IL Mrs Nichols dairy. ID Park Place, Liv
erpooi road, lSlington. Circumstances favor
ed the spread of the malady, AS although the
six cows were placed in quarantine shed
, ther' COWS happen to have been nI the same
I place. and thus the mal,1y was. propa"ated
! One hundred and fifteen have Gied. 1t Is
! impJ 5ibIe now to give the succeeding out
( breaks in the order Of time and without
specially naming the cow-keerers. ] may
i
more. particularly confined to the districts oi
J Islingion, St. Pancr;,s, st. Marylebone, aud
/ P.,ddington 1t is at the present moment
! raging severely in MaryIebone, at kilburn,
( Hemdon, Hampstead, and Syde nham, and
also It is SAID ut C!.eam, Surrey. Since
Saturday have received information, direct
! " and nGuecily. but chiefly from person,.l
Inquiries, concerning twelve distinct out
breaks. | shall state the particulars III the
order in which have CLEANED them. l. The
first SIZED | visited was III MAJ 'cbUne. For
t;-hve AM imals, IN apparently the most per.
feet health. were in tins yard on Thursday.
the 10Th. The owner had cen 20 Metropoli-
tan Cattle Market on the l4th or theredbonts,
and was shown some cat'le laboring under
the disease. He approached them withla a
yard or two, but feared TO touch them.
Within Il week, viz on Friday, the 2!st, he
noticed some OF his animal, sick, and saw
| they were lstborirg under the disease lie had
witnessed in the cattle market On Saturday
| he bc~an to get rid ot them. and sold twenty
( i.ht bv Tuesday. 18th. The remainder ut
the stock was turned ont in the fields, kno -
not where and Is SAID to he still heathv.
,. \ COW keeper in the immediate neiyhbor-
I hood Of the lst one hal sixteen coS. III
perfect health, and lost the whole in a fort
night. 3 In an adjoining street. third
dairyman had seventy COWS, distributed In
yariuu, sheds besides seventr in he country
\ COW was bought in the N :tropolitan Cattle
Market on the 10Th Of July, and on the 10th
this auima' showed signs OF the disease. ohe
had been placed shed with twenty-three
others Twelve were fat and were sold IN
the market before any sickness manifested
itself on tenn. The other twelve were seized,
including the newly bought one, and OF these
cigh have died aud four are still living, but
not at all likely - recover As yet, the
remaining stock in distant sheds, is in per-
feet health. 4. An extensive cow keeper
with 4 choice stock of seventy cows, pdr-
chased ii Dutch beast nearly a month back.
Within a,1eg- days it waS affected. aud the
seventy animals were all seIZel within a
fortnight. ! saw three convalescent on Sat-
ur,iav. but in a very reduced condition.
}. Near Cumberland Market, a dairyman,
having usually between forty and fifty COWS.
lost tie ,whDte within three weeks. IAN,
other dairyman IN the sa ne ne!ghborhood
has the disease among his stock At the pres
eut moment. !. Ia 81. Pancras dairyman
has lost ten within a few days. ). COW
keeper In Camden Town had IA stock OF SIX
tgen coys in perfect health IN the early part
of-this month they all died in fyr.ni.ht
He tumigated and otherwise dIsiniecied his
she'd aud bought six fresh animals, of which
two are already dead. 9. Near WIllesden a
dairyman has lost six'y-tive animals within -
fortnight.
The period of incubation of the disease
is from four to ten DAYS. When affected, the
;,uImal gets dull and prostrate; shivering fits
/ appear, there is coslivercss, red eyes, muuta
. hot. great thirst, etc. These premonitory
SYMPTOMS are succeeded by violent trem-
/ blings. peculiar spaSm,dic agitation OF the
] muscles, discharges fiom the eyes aad dose,
! cOs!iyenes, and diarrhu,, au4 sometimes the
/ SURFACE of the body is cold. These are some
of the SYMPTOMS, beside which there IS often
/ a los, of power in the exiremties. This
| stage lasts about three DAYS, having all the
appearance of Il fever. l. ,stly, there is eSI
! dence of serlous changes in the blood, mani
fest through the effect upon the nervous sys
TEN, aud the animal dies in commissions
/ Ihos. attacked become rapidly emaciated
, tie nanks sinking in. Sometimes death oc
! cars within two Or three days. at others no
I uutiI after a week, while the victim ma,
iinrer three or four weeks. Af.er death
most of the Indications Of typhoid fever II
man are app ,rent."
! THIS statement. it must be remembered
was made nn the 3lst Of July, since which
time, all tfe precautionlng which the utmos
alarm c,uld induce tue author ties and peopl'
to suggest, have been unavaili1g, aud tn
disease is rapidly spreading into the breedin:
and dairy districts of the country, and vi
have reports OF it in Ayle.bury. Nortolk
Surrey, Essex, Lamditb, Ports mouth, tn
Midland counties and Dublin. Meetings ar
held in various parts to discuss the means @
checking its spread aud saving the stOc'
, from ITS ravae-s. At an Aylesbury meeting
Mr. G.. A. Lepper, who had been invest
natiro the matter, made the following state
ment: -
The chief characteristics of the diseas
ware-refusal OF food, dropping of the heac
with the ears drawn back, prostrat,on
.tfength, partial closing of the eye, a 'starin:
coat, and an e-rphyscmatous condition OF IN
skin along the upper part OF the back. In
animal would sometimes sink IL hours froi
the commencement of the attack. lie ha
ascertaned tina: nearly one-third OF the daIr
stock in London had succumbed to the a.
: seese, which he believed to be analogous
and probably identical with the true Russia
steppe disease of eight years ago. The san,
complaint visited England l25 years ag'
r which was traced to The imporiarion OF som
Dutc, calves, and from which, in Nottin.
Ia, hi fi.. I,aI,
Ii once imported into this country, on
readers can at once see what fearful iusse
this disease would entail upon the farmer
' everywhere. We trust tnat no man vii
4 under any consideration, import fo-eig
. animal into the United States, until all da
; ger from this fearful scourge is past We IA
. ! E,ou- bo alarm that ayiyfadI all thrnuph ri