Show A cw disease in cattle it is reported that a disease called swell lical has appeared caillo in alio llio elfick yards this disease aej practically incurable it is ft question U it is really 1 new disease it is dioro likely in be nn old and rather common one which has been recently more accurately known ami described than heretofore without a close microscopic cro examination it is not to be distinguished from the common big head or big jaw bieh birst ap as a s a tumor or swelling of the aw and ends by death and destruction of tho bone leading of course to n miserably slow death of the animal by bloid or by starvation and as it is exceedingly rare for alio microscope to bo mado iio of in the cramin alion of a diseased may lu that this haa lon lieen in existence here without becoming identified until attention was recently called to it in tho columns of tho american veterinary nn description of it was given from ili niti iro it Is cm fagious tag ious as it cons ats of a para silio fungus growth may begin on alio llio tongue or checks anil soon spreads to the bone and tho saliva of a diseased animal would of course communicate alic germs of alie disease 0 o any other one w kiich should tako it into the mouth upon enod or in water or from a fouled trough or manger tharo have been cases in which sercial animals of i herd leavo diel one after aliu otylior at intervals from what has been supposed to bo alio colimon disease known by surgeons as citco or tumor of alio bone As the peculiar fungoid growths of tho so called new disease to tho fmc has been cm only bu seen by very close examination and as tho old and alic bicy one aro bolli malignant and incurable anil have preci cly aliu same apparent course there anay lie a measurable certainty klinl goniu of choso ancs referred to may leavo been of this particular kind just lichu we can only call attention to tho necessity for using obury precaution contagion by keeping n animal isolated or by slaughtering it as soon as alio disease Is identified and lias passed tio s tau when it can bo hopefully treated aliis precaution is especially in dairies in which a aai sc majority of tho cases occur A 1 |