seeking so diligently as they run up and the year before last a porcupine 
and about the trunks of pine trees. (Erethizon fcpixanthus) killed on Blue 
We ascertained this by finding a frag- River, in Summit county, was found 
ment of Rhagium in the stomach of a to be infested with tape-worms, 
slender billed Nuthatch. Hylotrupes Last April ten cattle died suddenly 
bajulus is also found-in western Cus- j n Wet Mountain valley, with every 
ter county, we met with one example, appearance of Splenic fever. This 
which was identified by Dr. John m0 st swift and fsial disease is caused 
Hamilton. Packard classes this a- by a microscopical rod-like organism 
mong the insects injurious to the pine, called Bacillus anthracis, which is 
and says (Bull.7, U. S. Ent. Comm.) found in the blood of the diseased an- 
tha. it is supposed to have been in= imals. These organisms retain their 
troduced into this country from Eu- vitality after the death of the animal, 
rope, and is found in America only and will renew their activity if by any 
on the sea coast. This, however, is chance they get tnto the system of an- 
evidently not so, since we have it oc- other. Hence it is of the greatest 
curring here in the very heart of the importance to utteily destroy the 
continent, at 8,400 feet elevation, and bodies of animals which die of An- 
very far from the sea. thrax. 
NOTES - Experiments have hitherto failed to 
With regard to Jack Rabbits, Dr. discover the poison in loco, although 
C. H. Merriam writes writes that we we strong. y suspect that an alkaloid 
have probably twy species in Colora- i s present in the root or young leaves 
do, Lepus campestris, w> ich has a of the plant, which will be discovered 
white tail, anti turns white in winter, by patient research. Prof. W. S. Gee 
and Lepus texianus, which has the up- dosed five of his students with prepa. 
per part of the tail black, and does rations of loco for nearly three weeks, 
Pot turn white in winter. We have to see what effect it would have on 
seen plenty of L. campestris in west- them. (We do not hear that the 
ern Custer county, but are not sure learned professor took any himself.) 
about the other. Will any one who From thefirst.an infinity of symptoms 
may have seen L. texianus please re- were noted, but happily it see ns that 
port the fact to us. loco poisoning was not among them. 
Many species of animals are infested A writer in the “Bulletin of the Tor- 
with intestinal worms. We found rey Botanical c ub” took in one dose 
numbers of one of. these worms, called more than all the above-mentioned 
Sclerostomum tetracanthum, in the students took in the course of the en- 
intestines of a horse which died of tire three weeks, but experienced on 
aneurism up on Swift creek last year, ly a slight nausea, due to the unpleas- 
