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cattle for exposition purposes. Trade could not be benefited by 
such an exhibit, as the Frenchmen are prejudiced and selfish 
and are determined to keep their market away from America. 
The department’s plans for an agricultural exhibit are rapidly 
taking shape, and it may be that a live-stock display will be 
made a part of them.— (^Breeders' Gazette.') 
Killing Tuberculous Cows in New York City.^ —The 
Board of Health of New York City is conducting a systematic 
inspection of all the dairies within its limits, testing all' cattle 
with tuberculin. All that react are killed and the carcasses 
confiscated, without compensation of any kind to the owners. 
If the dairyman refuses to allow his cows to be destroyed his 
permit to sell milk within the city limits is revoked. They ' 
generally accept the former, and submit to the loss. It is work¬ 
ing a great hardship upon these people, and there is a question 
of constitutional right in the matter. It is by no means estab¬ 
lished that the flesh of animals having slight glandular enlarge¬ 
ments or miliary tuberculosis of the viscera are dangerous as 
food for human beings when well-cooked. On the contrary, 
the opinion and the rule in most countries permit it. Only a 
small proportion of the milk supply of New York comes from 
within the city limits, and as there is no inspection of the out- 
of-town dairies, it is unfair to the former. The dairymen, how¬ 
ever, anticipate the Board of Health inspectors, and have their 
cows tested privately, slaughtering or selling those that react. 
Y'apor and Medicated Baths for Horses. —At the 
Omaha meeting of the U. S. V. M. A. there was exhibited an 
apparatus for administering these baths to horses. It consisted 
of an ingenious portable stall, entirely enclosed on all sides 
except the front, through which the horse’s head extended, and 
this opening was closed by a curtain, with an aperture just 
sufficient to permit the head to pass through, and tightly drawn 
by a gathering cord around the throat-latch. An alcohol stove 
within this tightly closed room quickly raises the temperature 
to any height, usually about i8o° F., when the animal will be 
thrown into a profuse perspiration, which can be continued at 
the will of the attendant. Out of this condition the patient 
may be gradually brought by lowering the temperature by 
degrees, or by the application of hand-rubbing or coolers. Many 
advantages are to be gained by this system in various diseases, 
and the members were very flattering in their comments upon 
it. It is especially intended for veterinary hospitals, and the 
proprietors will gladly furnish full information by addressing 
