Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1881 — Where Cattle Plagues Begin. [ARTICLE]

Where Cattle Plagues Begin.

The great plagues that from time to time have devastated the stables and pastures of Europe, sparing neither cattlo good or bad, have all had definite starting places, and these on investigation, have proved that the diseases found their origin in filth. Such plagues are always to be soared. Bad food impoverishes the blood of the stock, while the poisonous emanations of the filth, which also has an injurious effect when absorbed by the physiques continually in contact with it, complete the work, and the general deleterious influences finally localize themselves in some organ of the amimals that survive at all. The causes of cattle plagues are exactly analogous to those of cholera and other human soourges, and their effects, when they attain to contagion or infection, are similarly unsparing of all with whom they come in contact. Severer laws and more alert officers are necessary to the prevention of a cattle plague in this country.—--Veto York Herald. There is one European city that is naughty, and it’s Nioe. Cincinnati Gazette. _________ The thing we cauliflower by any other name would smell as sweet.