THE intelligence received from Eastern Europe relative to the extent and progress of the cattle plague is far from being reassuring. It was hoped that all danger had passed with reference to an extension of the malady from the western and south-western parts of Poland into Prussian Silesia, but recent information shows that the Prussian government has found it necessary to extend its precautionary measures in that direction, and to have the frontier guarded by troops from Neuberun, in Silesia, to Weischinie, in the department of Posen. Not only is Prussia threatened by an invasion of the disease in her south-eastern provinces, but also in her north-eastern, as the plague has extended in Russia as far northward as Kovno. To meet this new source of danger the government has dispatched troops to guard the frontier from Tilsitt to Pillkallen, in East Prussia. Poland is suffering to a great extent from this visitation of the plague, as is likewise Galicia, Transylvania, and Buckoweria.
— Washington Monthly Report of Agriculture.