Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-08-24
HISTORY OF THE MURRAlN Ol
CATTLE DISEASE.

IA LIE D1CIs[11iL.
It is not generally known that the
murrain or cattle disase, which is now
ravagiDg Europe, has at irregular peri.
DDS desolated the earth from the earliest
records of history. A hundred years
500. when it ceased in England, it did
not visi! America. Our country was
sparseIy settled, our cattle few N num-
bers. found their pasturage in the native
forests : our condition is now different,
aud we may confidently look for its APP
pearauce, its ravages and its desoiation.
TO reason about it is futile. 1t is enc of
the agencies of Providence, to lessen the
number of men and animals by disease,
more or less destructive Of life.
Our earliest record is in Exodus, Of the
destruction Of the cattle Of the Egyptians,
l4qI years before Christ 600 years
later the Greeks and their cattle perish
ed by pestilence at the siege OF Troy
Plutarch speaks Of q p%estilence 10 the
reign Of Romulus, attacking first the cat
tie and then extending to men. Virgil,
il his Georges, Book 81, describes the
disease, that in his day desolated Italy
Ammo Domini 376, it desolated the
whole Of Europe.
In $40 it destroyed The cattle Of the
army and dominions Of the Emperor
g~harlemagne.
In 1914 and 1899, it ravagod the Ven
etian States to such a degree as to canse
an edict of their Senate prohibiting the
slaughter of beef or veal.
In 1852 it ravaged most of the proVin
ces of France. .
In It'll t appesred near Padua, spread
ing from q Dalmatian OK abandoned
from adroye. F..
In liza it reached Piedmont, France, !
Germany, Holland and England, with q
destruction. }
In Holland zoe. 900 persisted. 1t con-
tinued hurking in dispersed districts up- ::
til 1871, when the pest Of 1852 seemed Il
to have returned the horse faring worse
han the OK.
In 174344, it reappeared in France d
.uG Germany with increased fury. q
Ia 1745 it again desolated Holland, de Il
200, 900 head of cattle. It now
cached England, which it rayaged for :
welve years. The government determin- =
ID to pay for the immediate slaughter of =
cattle attacked with the disease. IL {
he third year they paid for $4,000 head L,
n the fourth year they were destroyed at :
he rate Of 1000 per month these were !
q addition to those that died Of the dis =
ase. In HAT, 10000 persisted il two 2
10 another, $4,000 in six i
n 1851, it again appeared in France,
from cattle to horses. The
persisted il great numbers, sheep "
nd deer Of the forest did not escape 81
In 1853 it reached to Finland, thence h
Russia, where it was said to have been hc
cry destructive. III
In many Of the attacks in Europe, Sc. 81
GUS appyehensions were entertained of I'd
he entire determination Of the COW kind ca
The attention of every people and gov. dc
was called to it. Legislation. NJ
and medical skill were utterly 81
sineless. On, Oh, marched the pesti- m
nee, until it exhausted Itself and disap Sc
sared a hundred years ago, amid the Sc
astes of Russia. ar
Since that time, veterinary colleges th
ave been established throughout Eu- eff
'pe ! much has been hoped from them !. 81
3 do not, as yet, know with what sue. CO
MI
Doubtless, the pest has often occurred m,
ages and countries of which no record wi
reached ns. 1t is traceable for more te,
an $500 years, aud its occurrence more or
equently noted as We approach a period CO
better historical records. The infer
is that it is a disease occurring and
kelly to appear at irregular periods in ff
cry country.-T. J. RANDOLPH, in Rich ca
om9 Farmer. on
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RELIEF IN RHEuMArsM.-An English OF
lysician writes as follows to an Eng. ca
b journal /: es