348 BURMESE PONIES. ADULTERATION OF LARD. 
BURMESE PONIES. 
A number captured up the river (the Irawaddy) were 
brought down in boats, and put up for sale by public auction. 
Although they were all “ high in bone and low in flesh,” the 
demand for horses is so great just noTv, on the eve of movement 
upwards, that they were sold at an average of 75 rupees 
(£7 10^.) each . — From the same as the foregoing. 
THE BULLOCKS IN INDIA. 
More miserable specimens of cattle could not be found 
than the Madras bullocks. The Bengal bullocks are a larger 
and more powerful race, though they have not such a fierce 
look with them. When in condition there is no doubt that the 
long-horned Dukhance bullocks are very fine animals, and, 
judging from their looks, have more pluck than the larger 
and more powerful Bengal ones; and pluck with inferior 
strength, it is well known, will accomplish more than superior 
s trength without pluck . — From the same. 
ADULTERATION OF LARD. 
A communication was received^ from Mr. George Whipple 
on this subject, in which he states that he had for some time 
past suspected the purity of commercial lard, and had re- 
cently made a few experiments, which led to the detection of 
large quantities of some farinaceous substance in it. This 
adulteration was discovered in the different varieties of lard 
— from the finest bladder to the common firkin lard. In an 
examination of the contents of two firkins, weighing 10 5J lbs., 
a quantity of farinaceous substance, amounting to lbs., 
was separated. The contents of another firkin, weighing 
43f lbs., yielded 12f lbs. of a similar substance. Mr. Whipple 
points out the pernicious effects which this adulteration would 
be likely to produce in the employment of such lard for some 
pharmaceutical purposes, and the danger which might ensue 
from its application to machinery. 
Specimens of the farinaceous substance which had been 
separated were exhibited . — Pharmaceutical Journal , Jan. 1853. 
