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Facts and Observations. 
We make the four following extracts from the “ Live 
Stock Notes ” of the Mark Lane Express of December 15th : 
Quarantine orders at Quebec.— According to a 
Reuter’s telegram, orders have been issued by the Dominion 
Government that neat cattle from European entering Quebec, 
Halifax, or St. John, shall be subject to ninety days’ quaran¬ 
tine before coming in contact with Canadian cattle. 
YeterinarySurveillanceof CattleinOldenburg. 
—An official notice has been issued by the Government of 
Oldenburg, enacting that, after the 11th of November, all 
cattle coming from Great Britian or America, will be sub¬ 
jected to a veterinary surveillance for a term of four weeks, 
and after that can only be removed inland with a declaration 
of health by the veterinary inspector. 
Conscription of Horses for the Russian Army.— 
It is stated that steps are now being taken in Russia to 
carry out a conscription of horses for the army in all parts of 
the Empire. 
Restrictions on the Importation of Foreign 
Cattle. —At the recent dinner of the Hayward’s Heath 
“ Fat Stock Show Society,” Mr. Lawrence Peel, Clerk of the 
Privy Council,referring to the restrictions placed on the impor¬ 
tations of Foreign Cattle, said it was a singular fact that, in 
spite of more stringent rules, the number of cattle brought 
into England during the first ten months of the present 
year was nearly 50,000 in excess of the number in the cor¬ 
responding period of last year. 
Danger of the Use of Borax for the Preservation 
of Food, and Causes why Certain Substances De¬ 
prive Meat of its Nutritive Properties.— C. le Bon. 
—Meat steeped in a solution of pure borax, or covered with 
the powdered salt, may be preserved unchanged for a long 
time; but if taken as food such meat produces intestinal 
derangements which necessitate its disuse. Borax taken in 
small successive doses is a poisonous agent, the use of which 
in the preservation of alimentary substance ought to be 
strictly prohibited. M. Peligot has already pointed out the 
poisonous action of borax upon plants. Several Campag7iies 
in America who had begun to use the salt for the preservation 
of meat have been obliged to give it up. The author further 
shows the necessity of avoiding saline substances altogether 
for the preservation of food, an object which he considers 
attainable solely by the use of cold.— Chemist and Druggist, 
