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cent) was observed ; this depression was maintained on the two following 

 days. On the fifth day after the first administration, the second from the last 

 dose, there was a slight increase. The ordinary constant acid content 

 reappeared only after seven daj^s from the last administration of the cereal 

 decoction. 



1 09 1 - Stallion Service in the United States. — wenxworth e. x , (Kansas Agricultural 



College), in The Brced'-r's Gazette, Vol. lyXX, No. 5, p. 169. Chicago, August 3, 1916. 



Of the twenty-two States which possess a government stallion ser- 

 vice, nineteen have published the statistics respecting it, i. e., New York, 

 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, Ilhnois, Wisconsin, Iowa, 

 Minnesota (i), North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah, Mon- 

 tana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California. The report gives the 

 distribution of the stalUons amongst the different breeds, as shown in the 

 following table : 



Pure blood stallions 



Breeds Number Percentage 



Percheron 18 02^ 53.225 



Standardbred 4214 12.4)5 



Belgian . . -. 4 091 12.082 



French, heavy 2116 f>-2 ^o 



Shire 2 104 6.214 



Clydesdale i 279 .3-777 



(jerman carriage horse 502 1-483 



Shetland pony 301 0.889 



Morgan 296 0.874 



Hackney 273 0.806 



English thoroughbred 233 0.688 



. French carriage horse iSi 0.535 



American saddler 120 0.355 



vSuffolk 60 0.177 



Cleveland Baj^ Trotters 25 0.074 



Non Standard Trotters 25 0.074 



Arab 18 0053 



Obviously the heavy horses are in a large majority (81.72 per cent.), 

 those of the light type only representing 18.28 per cent. Beside.': these 33 860 

 pure bred stallions, 23 151 grade stallions are authorised and approved for 

 the stallion service. These represent only 38.05 per cent of the entire num- 

 ber of stalHons employed. 



1092 - The Very Short Gestation of a Mare. — de Choim, in Comptes nmius de I'Acude- 



P5< "'"' d' Agriculture de France, Yol. i, Year 1915, No. 25, pp. 716-717. Pans, 1916. 



This note records observations on a mare, Walkyrie, which was' serv- 

 ed on March ig, 1915 and foaled on November 7, 1915, after only 233 

 days of pregnancy. The offspring, which was perfectly viable, weighed 

 128 lbs. and had a height to the withers of about 36 ins. The only appa- 



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