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BULLOCKS POISONED BY THE YEW. 
On Saturday last, seven bullocks, belonging to his grace 
the Duke of Buccleugh, died suddenly on the farm of 
Holestain, parish of Burrisdeer. The cattle, it appears, 
were turned out to pasture in a field, in the vicinity of which 
were a number of yew-trees ; and having partaken freely of 
the branches, they almost immediately became unwell, and 
shortly afterwards expired . — The Field, March 28, 1857. 
THE HOG CHOLERA. 
The c American Veterinary Journal,’ for February, makes 
mention of a destructive disease which prevails among the 
pigs in the Ohio Valley, and which has destroyed a large 
number of these animals, two individuals having lost as many 
as five hundred. “ A panic prevails among the hog-feeders, 
and they are selling off the animals as fast as they can.” 
The farmers call the disease cholera ; the spasms and other 
symptoms exhibit similar evidences of congestion to those 
manifested by human beings when seized with that disorder. 
In the following number of the same periodical we find it 
stated that a fatal malady has prevailed among hogs in the 
Ohio Valley during the last six months. It is computed that 
between 60,000 and 70,000 have fallen victims to the des- 
tructive distemper within a circumference of a hundred miles 
surrounding Cincinnati. The disease is considered incurable,, 
having baffled the most critical investigations into its nature, 
and as steadily resisted all remedial agents. The malady has 
been vaguely denominated ee cholera,” from the failure to 
discover its true character, and upon that principle which a 
few years ago prompted mankind to apply the same term to 
all ills which resemble “ cholera” in the human body, and 
which they did not comprehend. The distemper of which 
we treat is similar in some of its operations to cholera, and 
in others it resembles erysipelas. 
Mr. Thomas Graff, proprietor of the extensive distilleries 
and hog-pen apartments at Lawrenceburg, and who has lost 
about four thousand hogs this season by the ravages of the hog- 
distemper, has devoted his time patiently and indefatigably in 
seeking to fathom the profound and alarming mystery, but 
with indifferent success. His examinations, observations, 
