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since. When’all this is considered we need scarcely wonder at 
the slackness of demand and slnggishness of trade which has 
been complained of in the agricultural horse circles of late.” 
Experiment Station Bulletins. —A wonderful improve¬ 
ment is manifest in the literature of the experiment stations of 
the various States. In the last issue of the B.EVIEW we took 
cognizance of the very valuable contribution to veterinary litera¬ 
ture in Bulletin No. 51 of the Minnesota Station, the author 
being that sterling veterinarian, Dr. M. H. Reynolds. We have 
received Bulletin No. 81 of the Alabama Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station on “ Meat Inspection,” being a report by State 
Veterinarian C. A. Cary, and it is one of the fullest and most 
comprehensive documents that has ever been issued under simi¬ 
lar circumstances. It includes a consideration of hog cholera, 
swine plague, tuberculosis of cattle, of pigs, and of birds, with 
their post-mortem appearances ; staining the tubercle bacilli, 
histology of tuberculous lesions, actinomycosis, anthrax, Texas 
fever, malignant catarrh of cattle, putrefying meat, course or 
order of post-mortems, an extended consideration of the various 
parasites of domestic animals, and many other matters of inter¬ 
est to farmers, stock-growers and veterinarians. 
Insanity in Animals. —Insanity in the human subject is 
supposed by some to have no analogue in the lower animals. 
I Yet many causes, according to Dr. Snelison, will lead to the 
permanent loss of self-control. Cattle driven from the country 
through a crowded town will often work themselves into a 
frenzy. Horses have gone mad on the battle-field. At Bala- 
klava an Arabian horse turned on its attendant as he was draw¬ 
ing water, seized him in his mouth, threw him down, and, 
kneeling on him, attacked him like an infuriated dog. He bit 
off another soldier’s finger. An instance is related of a docile 
horse suddenly going mad on a hot day. Everything that came 
in its way it seized in its teeth and shook as a terrier does a rat. 
It raided the pigsties and threw the inmates one after another 
in the air, trampling on the bodies as they fell. Afterward it 
almost killed its own master, after maiming for life the farrier 
who was called in. This must have been a case of insanity, the 
cause of which is often to be found in congenital malformations 
j of the bones of the head. A scientist of authority even goes so 
far as to prove by what appears to be incontestable evidence that 
cats, dogs, and monkeys have been observed to have delusions 
; very similar to those of insane people .—(Popular Science News.) 
