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contagion; each case detected being then isolated, excluded 
from public fields, roads or markets, and only allowed to go to 
the slanghter-honses. 
This wish demands also the passage of a law by which, “ in 
case, when, after slaughtering, tuberculosis is found to be local¬ 
ized, the buyer be only entitled to the restitution of the value of 
the contaminated portions of the carcass.” A question of juris¬ 
prudence which is but right. It is well known that in France, 
to be rejected by meat inspectors a whole carcass must be re- 
jected and the disease generalized ; if it is localized, only the 
affected part is thrown to the offals. This is a measure which 
our esteemed friend. Dr. Peters, has carried out in Massachu¬ 
setts. 
Variola has also occupied the attention of one section of the 
Societe. France draws many of her sheep from Algeria, and 
Algerian sheep have often been the cause of outbreaks of the 
disease on French soil, where they have done much harm. A 
measure of local importance has been demanded, viz., that at 
least fifty days previous to the day of embarking, all Algerian 
sheep should be vaccinated and marked with an official stamp, 
as an evidence that they have been submitted to that measure. 
While the two preceding measures have only a special local 
interest, and for onr readers one of curiosity, the third measure, 
which I mentioned above, refers to American exportation, and 
on that account interests us all. Not satisfied with the protec¬ 
tion that France has accorded to her breeders and raisers of cat¬ 
tle, principally those of Normandy, by which the importation 
of American cattle was cut short, a more and not less important 
move has been started with an object which, if it is realized, 
might considerably diminish the trade of American horses with 
France. The wish presented by the “ Societe des Agriculteurs” 
is to the effect that imported horses shall be subjected to a tax 
of $40 a head, that they will be submitted to a quarantine of 
same length that is imposed upon French horses exported to 
other countries; that horses imported into France shall be 
branded under the mane with a hot iron to avoid frauds. Ex- 
