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rid of luin by as painless a death as possible, and gave him forty 
grains of morphine. Having made preparations for the funeral, 
the grocer proceeded to the stable, where, to his astonishment, he 
found the horse in excellent spirits and eating his oats with his 
former habitual haste, so as to be ready for the early trip to 
market. Opium is said to have been used successfully in India 
for many years in relieving horses from the consequences of old 
age and overwork. 
Pleuro-pneumonia in Great Britain. —Prof. Brown, the vet¬ 
erinarian of the British Privy Council, has prepared his report 
upon contagious diseases among farm stock in the United King¬ 
dom, and in conclusion, this is what he says about pleuro-pneu¬ 
monia, which, we regret to say, has more than a passing interest 
for us at this time : “ Pleuro-pneumonia might, under existing cir¬ 
cumstances, be extinguished if local authorities would adopt one 
of two courses, either slaughter all the cattle in a herd as soon as 
the disease appears; or, in cases where slaughter is inexpedient, 
allow the premises to continue an infected place until the animals 
were in a tit condition for the butcher. It is hardly necessary to 
remark that these measures, to be effectual, must be enforced all 
over the kingdom. It is not probable that Great Britain will suc¬ 
ceed in eradicating the disease so long as it exists in Ireland, 
from which we draw our chief supplies of store stock.”— National 
Live Stock Journal. 
Pleuro-pneumonia in the West. — The Ohio Farmer says 
that “the excitement over pleuro-pneumonia in the West is sub¬ 
siding, and the strict quarantine regulations adopted by certain 
States are being relaxed. Illinois now admits all cattle from 
Missouri upon official certificate ofi health. Next in order will 
be some new outbreak in some heretofore unsuspected quarter 
and another great excitement .” 
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FOREIGN. —Veterinarian, Veterinary Journal, Annales tie Medecine Veterinaria, 
Clinica Veterinaria, Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire, Presse Veterinarig, 
