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EXTRACTS EROM XXCHANGES. 
feather in the cap of Sullivan County, whose main industry, 
next to summer boarders, is supplying milk to the creameries at 
about two cents a quart. While the people of this state have 
no occasion to begrudge any expenses legitimately incurred in 
scientific examinations of this nature, it is, perhaps, an occasion 
for remark that this work cost $9,025, while the state’s outlay 
for the animals killed was $18,309. 
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES IN FRANCE. 
In one of the reports on contagious diseases of animals in 
the Department of the Seine, are found some extracts dealing 
with hydrophobia, and some interesting details concerning other 
scourges, which are liable to be transmitted to man. Tubercu¬ 
losis in cattle is the subject of a lengthy article, and the repor¬ 
ter has found traces of the disease in no less than seventy cow¬ 
houses in the department, but the proportion of infected ani¬ 
mals is only 3.4 per 1,000, and he combats the commonly re¬ 
ceived opinion that direct infection through milk is a frequent 
cause of consumption in the human species. He recommends, 
however, a more stringent enforcement of the law relating to 
contagious diseases, and states that glanders in horses is becom¬ 
ing so prevalent as to render strong measures necessary. Fi¬ 
nally, he insists on the importance of doing away with private 
slaughter-houses which abound in the suburban districts, as they 
furnish unscrupulous owners of diseased beasts with consider¬ 
able facilities for disposing of them as sound. 
FOR SALE. 
A light Veteriuary Ambulace for sale. Cost $225. Will sell for half price. 
Address, E. S. Merrell, 
Middletown, N. Y. 
