Award of Medals, ^-c, at Kilburn. 
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have been made with such, and without exception they have 
submitted on the first appli- ^ ,r _ , m . 
cation. At the request of ^^S" S.-ifons Engstroms Electric 
M. Moreau Chaslon and M. ^PP<^ratus for Taming Horses. 
Bella, officials of the Paris 
Omnibus Company, trials 
were made at the depot, Ma- 
lesherbes, where the most 
vicious horses are collected. 
Six animals were presented ; 
until then they had been 
treated on Rarey's system, 
which is a veritable torture. 
P, the power ; W, weight ; F, fulcrum. 
These six horses were conquered in an hour's time, with the 
application of the apparatus. The same horses were tried twice 
afterwards, at intervals of eight days, and were found to be 
thoroughly tamed, without further use of the apparatus. Similar 
experiments were made on the tramways before the Head 
Manager, the Veterinary Surgeon, and the Council, Identical 
results were obtained. Other experiences coincide. The price 
of the apparatus for taming and for preventing crib-biting is 
6/. each. 
Poultry Production. 
English farmers must no longer neglect the smaller econo- 
mies, by attention to which foreigners add so largely to their 
income. It is a disgrace to this country that whilst the imports 
of eggs and poultry into the United Kingdom has reached the 
enormous sum of 8,000,000/. in one year, we have not even a 
quotation of English eggs in the London market, which are 
supplied principally from France, but also from Canada and 
the States. Poultry can be made a material source of income. 
There is nothing in our climate prejudicial to the growth of 
fowls, on the contrary, the abundance of insect life due to our 
humidity is highly favourable to their early development. It 
Avas only last summer that spring ducks were making from 
15s. to 17s. a couple in the London market. To Messrs. E. 
Rouillier-Arnoult and E. Arnoult, of Gambais-les-Houdan (Seine- 
et-Oise), we are indebted for having first made hydro-incuba- 
tion a practical success. Mr. Thomas Christy, of the firm of 
Christy and Co., of 155, Fenchurch Street, London, has made 
several improvements in detail which render his apparatus 
more suitable for our requirements. According to the report of 
JNI. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, addressed to the President of the 
Societe d'Acclimatation, under date December 1st, 1875, the 
