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EXTRACTS FROM AGRICULTURAL PAPERS. 
The Secretary of the Treasury ought to be much better i 
formed on the subject than the Secretary of State, because 
has subordinates all along the Canadian border who could ha 
informed him of the importation of the cattle from the Queb 
quarantine. 
^ The law of Congress prohibits the importation of cattle fro 
Biitish Provinces, but gives the Secretary of the Treasury tl 
power to permit such importations, when in his opinion it w 
subsei ve the public interest, under such restrictions and limitatio 
as lie may prescribe. Some two or three years ago the Depar 
ment issued an order allowing the free importation of such catt 
without restriction, and if they were imported for breeding pu 
pesos, as they are generally claimed to be, they come in free < 
duty, while our cattle cannot be taken into Canada at all witlioi 
a quarantine of ninety days after landing. Why did not tl 
Tieasury Department withdraw its permission immediately upc 
learning of the outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia at Quebec ? 1 
this had been done it would probably have saved us the troub 
and expense of looking after the two lots above mentioned. ] 
certainly would have detained the Geary cattle in Canada, fc 
they were shipped only ten days ago. T. C. Jones. 
DEALING WITH HOG CHOLERA IN CONNECTICUT. 
A disease made its appearance in a pen of 80 swine belongin 
to L. D. Rockwell, of Bloomfield, Conn., on August 8. Bein 
called professionally to attend the affected animals, I found aftc 
making autopsies that the disease was hog cholera, otherwis 
known as u swine plague.” On August 11 I reported such to b 
the case to the Commissioner of Contagious Diseases of Animal 
and on August 14 the chairman, Hon. E. H. Hyde, of Staff ort 
visited the affected herd and placed them under strict quaran 
tine. 4 he Commissioners, including E. H. Hyde, of Stafford, an 
Dr. J. W. Alsop, of Middletown, again visited these swine, i 
company with myself, on August 18, and after making numerou 
autopsies on the cadavers of those which have recently died an 
on some that were killed for our benefit, they became satisfied a 
