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State Veterinarian was petitioned by the trustees to investigate, 
but in reply stated that his department had been compelled to 
suspend for lack of funds. Dr. Salmon, chief of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry of the United States, has been asked to investi¬ 
gate a lung of a pig which has been dead but a few hours. It 
was examined by a local veterinarian and found to be terribly en¬ 
larged, of a clotted blood color, and full of pus.”— National Live 
Stock Journal. 
Tuberculosis in Germany.— Among 8,252 beeves, 28,178 
swine, 28,557 calves, 10,776 sheep and 75 goats killed in the 
slaughter-houses of Chemnitz in 1887, 422 beeves, 79 swine, 2 
sheep and 2 calves were found to be tuberculous. In the same 
year among 11,227 oxen, 1,656 steers, 1,389 cows, 598 yearlings, 
30,477 calves, 18,860 sheep, 3,968 lambs, 63,832 swine and 445 
horses,—a total of 132,453 animals,—51 oxen, 45 cows, 8 steers, 
3 yearlings and 1 calf, all together 108 animals, were found to be 
tuberculous. In Bamberg, in the same year, among 4,781 beeves, 
49 were tuberculous.— Duetsche Med. Wochenschrift. 
The Crime of Docking Horses. —In Our Dumb Animals , a 
paper published at Boston, Mass., under the auspices of the Hu¬ 
mane Society, the President of the Massachusetts Society for the 
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says: The docking of horses 
is a barbarous and cruel operation, in clear violation of the laws 
of Massachusetts, and may be punished by $250 fine and a year’s 
imprisonment in jail. Any man who violates this law is a crimi¬ 
nal, and any man who aids is a particeps criminis. The cruelty is 
not only in the operation, but, as the tail can never grow, the 
horse through life thereafter has no protection from flies, mos¬ 
quitos and other insects that torment. We have obtained in 
Massachusetts courts already three convictions, and I hereby 
offer, in behalf of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention 
of Cruelty to Animals, $50 for evidence which shall enable us to 
convict of this cruel and barbarous practice. 
A Simple Remedy Against the Diphtheria of Fowls. —Mr. 
T. Schuster proposes to paint with a small brush, the beak with 
a little petroleum and the introducing of a drop of it in each nos- 
