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NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
Stamping Out Pleuro-Pneumonia. —Veterinarians of tli 
Bureau of Animal Industry have begun the work of stamping ou 
the disease in Maryland and Virginia. Animals are appraise 
and paid for with the funds appropriated by Congress. 
A Deserved Appointment. —The Canadian Minister of Agr 
culture has appointed Prof. Andrew Smith, of the Toronto Ve 
erinary College, to act as one of the judges at the Chicag 
Percheron Horse Show, Sept. 6 to 11. This completes the jur; 
the appointment of the Hon. George B. Boring, on the part < 
the United States, and the Marquis de la Motte Rogne bavin 
been previously announced in these columns. Dr. Boring an 
Prof. Smith are both excellent men for the place, and the Brent 
representative, from his position as Chief Inspector of the go 
ernment studs, ought to be equally good ; and a jury so appoint*, 
and so constituted will certainly be free from prejudice and pa 
tisan bias. The high character of the gentlemen themselves is 
sufficient guaranty that their work will be honestly and Intel 
gently done.— Breeders’ Gazette. 
Pleuro-Pneumonia at the Quarantine Station in Quebi 
—The Department of Agriculture has received advices from t! 
Dominion Live-Stock Inspector to the effect that the entire elf 
ment of cattle recently made from Scotland to Canada, now 
quarantine at Quebec, is afflicted with pleuro-pneumonia, a 
orders will be given that the entire lot be slaughtered and c 
mated at once. The shipment consisted of fifty-seven head 
full-blood Galloways, owned by Hector McCrae, of Montreal, 
cently purchased at Kirkend, Brightshire, Scotland, and valued 
$15,000. There are also 300 other cattle belonging to Andr 
Allan, of Montreal; J. J. Hill, of St. Paul, Minn.; Sena 
Cochrane, of Hillhurst, Canada, and W. Dawes, of Lachi 
Quebec. Of this lot the greater part are black polled cattle, 
which high figures were paid. The whole 357 head are valued 
$300,000. All must bo sacrificed, as those not now down w 
the disease have been exposed during shipment. Since the exp 
tation of these cattle has taken place pleuropneumonia 
broken out on the farms of the exporters, and the cattle h 
been slaughtered by the local authorities .—National Live St 
Journal . 
