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THE IMPORATION OF SHORT-HORNED 
Thus he continued for another twelvemonth. He was constantly 
used, and did his full share of work. Some of the water, as he 
was drinking, escaped through the pit above the eye. Beyond 
this he did not appear to be incommoded by the fistula. I attached 
a large piece of copper to his head harness, in order to prevent 
any foreign bodies from entering or falling into this chasm. I saw 
him often, I rode him when I wanted him, and in 1832 he was 
given to the hospital of Pezenas, where he was employed in turn- 
ing a rude kind of mechanism, for the purpose of drawing water 
for that establishment. He is there at the present moment (1838). 
The hollow of the pit is now enormously increased. It is become 
infundibuliform, and it will hold more than half a pint of fluid. 
The skin is considerable distended there, and clings to the bone, 
in proportion as the adipose body which should naturally occupy 
this cavity is wasted away. There is no other wound than the 
canal which penetrates into the mouth. Notwithstanding all this 
disease in its immediate neighbourhood, the eye is not in the 
slightest degree injured. I purpose to send to you the head of 
the horse whenever he may die. 
Journal des Vet. du Midi. 
THE IMPORTATION OF SHORT-HORNED CATTLE 
INTO FRANCE. 
OUR readers will smile, and yet exult, when they peruse the 
following extract from the Journal des Haras of the last month. 
“ We, some time ago, spoke of the commission given by the 
Minister of Commerce and Agriculture to MM. Yvart, Inspector- 
General of the Veterinary Schools and Agricultural Establish- 
ments, and Lefevre de Sainte Maire, Superintendent of the Stud 
at Pin, to purchase in England a certain number of the Durham 
short-horned bulls and cows, similar to those which have been 
already placed at the school of Alfort. This mission has been 
accomplished with all the intelligence and zeal that might be 
expected in the persons who were employed. 
“ A correspondent writes to us from Normandy, that ‘ every one 
presses to see and to admire the magnificent cattle that have arrived 
from England. The Norman breeders, who are difficult to please, 
are compelled to be silent; and, at the fete of St. Denis, the num- 
ber of visitors was immense.’ 
“ Another of our correspondents tells us, that the afflux of the 
curious was so great that it was necessary to have recourse to the 
gendarmerie to maintain good order, and to prevent some of the 
