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of Col. Branch, near Cincinnati, Avas of dark color on account of the 

 lime used, but in purity of flavor we mark it seven on a scale of ten. 

 A certain twang and acidity by tlie litmus test are explained by the 

 circumstance that old sour molasses was mixed with the raw juice in 

 makiui^ this syrup. Tiie bottle marked four, made at tlie example 

 farm of the Kentucky Universit}^ at Ashland, we found a very supe- 

 rior article. Obtaining some Stewart's sugar-house syrup that sells 

 at $1.25 per gallon, we pronounced the Kentucky syrup equal to it 

 in every respect. This syrup was made by the Clougli process — the 

 juice of the cane first defecated by silicate of soda, sweetened with 

 lime and thrown to the bottom of a settling tank with sulphate of 

 baryta. From evidences brought before us we regard the practical 

 effect of Mr, Clough's discovery as of great importance, as it enables 

 the sorgo growers to make a syrup twice as good and commanding 

 twice as much in market as that made by common, rude methods. 



Sick Hokses. 



A correspondent writes from California : About a year ago I traded 

 for a horse that looked as if he had taken cold, discharging at nose 

 and eyes. We turned him out with the other horses that were 

 feeding at a strawstack. AVe soon noticed symptoms of it in tliem 

 also ; in fact, tliey were all more or less affected. We examined 

 closer and found that those who have taken it, the worse are swelled 

 in the glands of the throat, generally on one side, discharging at the 

 nose and eyes; a slight cough also. It is certainly very contagious. 

 The animal shows it worst when heated up. Is it the glanders ? We 

 have had one horse that has had it six months, and when staked out 

 on green grass all the time, he is in first rate condition in every other 

 "way. 



Mr. A. B. Crandoll. — I submitted this letter to Prof. Lorge of the 

 veterinary college of this city, and he kindly forwarded the follow- 

 ing re])ly : " From some of the symptoms noted, glanders would seem 

 to be the disease. Tlie writer does not state if there are any ulcers 

 in the nostrils, as is most likely the case if the disease is glanders ; 

 neither does he say whether there are any sores on the legs or body, 

 as would be the case if the disease is complicated with the other form 

 of the same disease known as farey. He alludes to a discharge from 

 the eyes ; this is not a prominent symptom in sub-acute form of the 

 disease. There is a disease known as Ozena, or chronic nasal gleet 

 (chronic catarrh), that in appearance simikites ver}- closely to gland- 



