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NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
Cholera in Cats. —Mr. John C. Lucas refers in the Lancet 
of May 24th to an epidemic of cholera in cats occurring at Ah- 
mednugghur and Sirror, and reported upon by the Government 
of Bombay. He refers also to another epidemic which occurred 
at Delhi in 1875. It thus seems to be established that cholera 
can at time affect pigs and cats. Yet Koch failed to produce the 
disease in them with his bacilli or by other means.— ATed. 
Record. 
Foot and Mouth Disease in Canada.— The Breeders' Gazette 
states on authority that it is true that the foot and mouth disease 
has been discovered in the Canadian quarantine station; and 
adds that it has good reason to believe that all reasonable care 
has been taken by the authorities to prevent the infection from 
spreading. It was brought over, as in the case at Portland, with 
imported cattle, and by the same party who introduced it here. 
Peculiar Cattle Disease. —Nova Scotia farmers are be¬ 
coming seriously alarmed over the gradual spread of a peculiar 
disease among cattle, which originated about thirty years ago. 
It is not contagious in the ordinary sense of the word, yet slowly 
makes its way among the herds of the country. Two years ago 
the Dominion Government appropriated $20,000 for slaughtering 
infected animals and quarantining those known to have been in 
contact with diseased ones. The effect has been beneficial, but 
the disease is not yet stamped out .—Prairie Farmer. 
State Aid to Agriculture. —The Massachusetts Legislature 
at its recent session appropriated $63,600 for agricultural pur¬ 
poses, viz., Agricultural College, $36,000 ; Agricultural Societies, 
$17,200 ; members of State Board of Agriculture for traveling 
expenses, $1,600 ; expenses of county meetings of Board, $800 ; 
enforcing the laws against the adulteration of milk and its pro¬ 
ducts, $6,000 ; for investigating the causes of abortion in cows, 
$ 2 , 000 . 
Prolific Cow. —I have what is considered a prolific cow by 
farmers and breeders of this section. She is a grade Durham, 
and will be five years old in June. She is the mother of eleven 
calves. At the first birth, before she was two years old, she had 
