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NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
have for some years been trying to produce poultry with regular 
markings of black-and-white. It seems well-nigh impossible. Yet 
regular markings of red-and-black are easy enough, and even of 
red-and-white. Regular black-and-white markings are common 
with several species of wild birds, and pencilled fowls are common 
enough. But black-and-white as domesticated rabbits, dogs, horses, 
cattle, sheep, having the mixture, i. e., in large patches of each 
color, are very rare indeed with domesticated gallinse.” 
The Horse Disease (?) in Montana. —Dr. H. Holloway, Ter¬ 
ritorial Veterinary Surgeon, returned last Thursday evening from 
a professional tour through portions of Madison County. The doc¬ 
tor found several cases of glanders in one locality. The animals 
were killed, and as the cases were the outgrowth of a single case 
which was disposed of some time ago and were confined to 
a limited area, the doctor thinks he has effectually rounded up the 
disease in that particular locality. 
Being asked by a Journal representative as to the nature and 
character of the new horse disease which is proving so fatal in 
several sections of the territory, the doctor replied that his oppor¬ 
tunities for making a thorough examination of the horses aftlicted 
with the disease has been so limited that he was not prepared to 
give it a name. So far as his observations extended it resembled 
a miasmatic fever, but in no way resembled cerebro-spinal menin¬ 
gitis. Microscopical examination of the blood showed an excess¬ 
ive amount of fibrine and a shrinkage of the red corpuseles.. A 
sufficient number of examinations have not been made to state if 
this is the case in all affected animals, but animals treated on 
this hypothesis did remarkably well. The disease is not by any 
means incurable, and although many horses that are allowed to 
weather the storm unassisted are left in a comparatively useless 
condition, there are many which have had the advantage of intelli¬ 
gent treatment working now as well as they ever did. 1 ' 
The doctor says the disease is abating. He looks upon it as one 
incidental to high altitudes and mountainous regions, as inquiries 
made of eastern veterinarians failed to bring from them a knowl¬ 
edge of its existence there.— Nat. Live Stock Jou< 
