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lister, bave 120 thoror.gb-bred Angora g'orits and 2,000 grades from one- 

 Iialf to sixty-tbree-sisty-fourtlis of "pure blood. Tbe fleeces of tbe grades 

 vrere !^;old in New York, last year, at an average of 80 cents per pound. 

 The writer judges tbat tbere must l)e quite 25,000 Angora grades in tbe 

 State ranging from one-balf blood to very nearly pure. 



Angora goais in Utah. — A co-operative company formed tbrougli tbe 

 etibrtsof J. E. Jobnson, editor of tbe Utab Pomologist, baving arranged 

 for tbe importation of 130 Angora and Tbibet goats for crossing witb tbe 

 common goat, succeeded in obtaining 108, -wbicli arrived in good condi- 

 tion. A portion of the shipment was lost in a severe storm on tbe Union 

 Pacific Railroad. 



Vah(e of inqjrovcd blood. — INIr. H. McCoughtry, of Wiutbrop, Iowa, 

 vrriting in the early part of tbe present year, stated tbat in April, 1871, 

 Ik? procured from a breeder in !New York an Essex boar six months old 

 at a price of $50. Tbe express charges amounted to $19.40, making tbe 

 total cost $09.40. The cost of the animal becoming known among Mr. 

 McCougbtry's neighbors excited much mirth at bis expense. But a few 

 months afterward he obtained $50 for five pigs got from a grade Essex 

 sow by the boar, and in the fall and winter received $50 for the services 

 of tbe latter. 



Foot and mouth disease in England. — English official reports show 

 001,565 animals attacked by foot and mouth disease in 1871. 



Milk from diseased coics. — In respect to tbe milk of cows affected with 

 foot and mouth disease, the report of the Massachusetts board of health 

 for 1871 shows tbat human beings may contract the disease by the 

 use of such milk; in such cases the affection is generally limited to a 

 sore mouth, and in rare instances the latter is accompanied by eruptions 

 on tbe body. But when the milk is used by invalids and growing 

 children more serious consequences may result. 



Canned meat in Texas. — Tbe stock firm of Allen, Poole & Co., in 

 Southern Texas, employs about 1,000 men, owns over 200,000 bead of 

 cattle, brands 50,000 calves annually, and sells annually in the New 

 Orleans market 24,000 calves, at prices ranging from $5 to $8 net, these 

 spJes including proceeds of animals purchased from other herdsmen. 

 The firm has lately taken up the business of canning beef roasted by 

 a patented process. Tbe rough meat, neck and shoulders, are rejected 

 in canning, and each can contains three to eigbt pounds of beef, gener- 

 ally in one piece. The juice is wholly retained, and the meat is said to 

 be rich in flavor, though somewhat too much done to suit tbe tasteof 

 many, and free from bone and gristle. It is sold by tbe quantity at 

 about 14 cents per pound. The bides are shipped to New York, and 

 average 13 cents per pound, or $5 to $G per bide. 



Australian canned meats. — The imports of Australian canned meats 

 into the kingdom of Great Britain have risen from 91 cwt. in 18G6, 

 valued at £321, to 237,160 cwt., in 1871, valued at £513,180. 



Exposing sales of had meat. — Tbe New York Tribune a tew mouths ago 

 published an article exposing the frauds iiracticed by a certain class of 

 market-men on tbe people of that city, in the "fixing up" and vending 

 of bad meat and poultry. Tbe article included a list of offenders, with 

 particulars of their offenses. 



Refrigerating cars. — Refrigerating cars, for the transportation of fresh 

 meat, butter, fruit, &C.5 are now run on most of the freight-trains from 

 Chicago to New York. They are built witb double walls filled in with 

 charcoal, have a capacity for two tons of ice each, and can carry about 

 20,000 pounds of freight. They are so arranged that tbere is a constant 

 circulation of cool dry air, and are examined at points on the road and 

 ice supplied if necessary. 



