facts and observations. 
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be extinguished from the State of Pennsylvania. The dis¬ 
tricts of Savannah, Boston, and New Orleans, are reported 
to have remained free from contagious disease during April 
and May, and Charlestown and Portland are reported free 
for the month of May. 
INSPECTION OF IMPORTED CATTLE IN 
CANADA. 
The Government of the Dominion of Canada has issued 
an Order of Council, dated Ottawa, May 25th, under the 
Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, which provides, amongst 
other details, that the inspection of imported cattle shall be 
under the control of the Minister of Agriculture, and that 
the Collector of Customs cannot give a Bill of Clearance 
for cattle until shown a clean bill of health signed by the 
Inspector. 
Facts and Observations. 
The Sheep Losses in the West Highlands. —The 
North British Agriculturist states that the sheep losses in 
some parts of the West Highlands have been remarkably 
heavy. A correspondent writing from Lochaish states that 
on a farm rented at £800 as many as a hundred lambs were 
found dead one morning, and the total losses of lambs on the 
farm during the season is estimated at from £400 to £500. 
Metallic Substances in the Stomachs of Cows.—A 
cow, valued at about £30, died suddenly at Barrow a few days 
ago. In her stomach were found twenty-two pieces of nail, 
wire, &c. A piece of umbrella wire having penetrated the 
heart proved the immediate cause of the animaPs death. 
An extraordinary occurrence is reported from the Cheshire 
village cf Alsager, where Mr. James Barber has suffered from 
a wholesale destruction of cows. In the inside of each cow a 
collection of metal buttons, hair-pins, shot, and other metallic 
substances w^as found, which had evidently been forced down 
the throats of the animals. 
Typhoid Disease in Pigs. —The fine herd of prize black 
Berkshire pigs, the property of Mr. Seth Tinsley, Norton 
Grange, Malton, has been completely destroyed by the ravages 
of typhoid disease. 
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