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Show Philippine Scouts Fight RlnderpesL The veterinary dlvlsloo of the Philippine bureau of agriculture Is wsglng an energelio campaign against rinderpest, a disease which In former for-mer years destroyed annually upward of half a million cattle and cars ha os In the Philippines, though the number hss oven reduced to two or three thousand- A unique fraturo of this campaign Is the extensive use made of tbo Philippine scouts la searching for eases of the disease and also In patrol , duty to prevent tbe Introduction of Infected cattle la regions where the j disease hss been stamped ouL Last year a cordon of about 1.400 scouts 1 pushed southward as far as southern ' Pampagsa and northern Bularan. leaving leav-ing tho territory behind them free from rtnderpesL Scientific Amert- |