Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1880 — Pleural-Pneumonia. [ARTICLE]

Pleural-Pneumonia.

According tote Veterinarian, (Eng.] cattle plane exists in seven provinces of the Russian empire. Ike avk Tent lipm says Out during the first three moo the of this veer the disease had decliaed to a considerable extent throughle reported that in twenty-three counties la England, and am la Seated. It has broken <tt at Drayton. of Ala Mgf ftUnm-imaniinnii innain to have bran confined to the nravtaces*of South Holland, Hated and Utoaigen The olane is on the i—»—— {■ the colony of South Australia, sad it has aaaaated a serious aspect in the Aacklaad sad Waikato districts of New Zealand. While the disease seems to he spreading in Australia, H is naftifytag to lean that generally, both in Gnat Britiaa and oa the continent, it is declining. We hall the aanouaoamant with pleasure,aad hope that the extermieatioa of pleuropneumonia is not only possible, but that this will, en long, be an accomplished fact Breed lag animals are being purchased in Europe by enterprising citizens of this country, end It Is not impossible, even when the closest scrutiny Is employed, that animals may be brought la with this disease latent in their systems. Its extirpation is a consumation devoutly to be desired oa both sides of the ocean, end we trust that the time is not far ia the fature whan its entire elimination can be certainly announced.

While oa this subjectjwe are constrained te eay that some of oar English contemporaries do not closely read American papers. The Veterinarian, lor instance, says it appears that while great eftorts are being made to extirpate the disease ia the United States, ne beneficial result has bean obtained, inasmuch as daring the first live months of this year,ls* cases hare bean detected by the inspectors of the Privy Council in cattle landed ia England. This statement is oopied by theuark Lane Expcem which states that the disease appears to be on the Increase in this oouaS. The facts are that the disease is rapy decreasing, and that the summary measures for exterminating it in the narrow and circumscribed strip ot country an the seaboard where it alone exists in the United States, promise its early extirpation. Hist measure to that end cannot be too vigorous sad heroic the Prairie Parmer persistently maintained, and our information is that this course is being pursued.