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high duties and various restrictions placed by Germany on our 
export meats have nearly stopped the shipment of animals on 
the hoof and greatly increased the price of meats to the con¬ 
sumer. This advance has been so sharp that consumption has 
fallen off in a marked degree and the population has turned 
toward cured meats. This is peculiarly advantageous to us, as we 
control a large part of that trade. It would thus appear that 
the agrarians whose efforts have brought about these restrictions 
have effectually “ whip-sawed ” themselves.— {Breeder's Ga¬ 
zette.^ 
How THE Horses were Gotten Ashore at Siboney,. 
Cuba. —The landing of horses at Siboney from the American 
transports was a work attended with a good deal of risk. It was 
impossible to land the animals without making them swim 
ashore, and great difficulty was experienced in getting them 
into the water. The method pursued was ingenious, to say the 
least. The horse was made to stand on a board at the side of 
the vessel, and a rope from his halter was thrown to a boat 
alongside. The board worked on a pivot in the middle, and 
shot the horse, very much surprised, into the water. When two 
had been served thus they were towed off towards the shore by 
a boat’s crew. It was a half-mile swim to the shore, through a 
choppy sea, and many of the horses only landed to die in a few 
days. Some of them would get into the sea without being 
roped, or get loose when in the water, and with provoking stu^ 
pidity would start swimming out to sea. Some of them were 
recaptured, but others were washed away. 
A New Treatment for Bursatte. —In a private letter 
from Prof. W. L. Williams the following interesting paragraph 
occurred, and as it is of professional interest we take the liberty 
of reproducing it: “I tried during the past summer a very in¬ 
teresting experiment in the treatment of bursatte (summer sores). 
Knowing that the sores develop only in hot weather and the 
two cases belonging to our clients being affected entirely on the 
legs and feet I reasoned that keeping these parts cool and free 
from irritation might be beneficial. I therefore directed that 
the feet and legs be not groomed at all during the heated term, 
but instead that they be showered with cold water (from city hose) 
twice daily. As a result, of the two patients which had each 
summer previously become unusable during the hot weather, one 
passed through without an eruption, the other showed five or 
six slight eruptions which yielded promptly to silver nitrate, 
iodoform and pressure. Of course the experiment is limited, as 
