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lately, but the veterinarian of the Agricultural Department, Dr. 
Salmon, avers, after an autopsy, that there was no internal evi¬ 
dence of contagious pleuro-pneumonia.— Farmers' 1 Review. 
Ration of Hay for a Horse. —The experiments of Wolff 
and others, at German experiment stations, shows that a horse 
weighing 1,100 to 1,200 pounds would eat from twenty-two to 
twenty-seven and a half pounds of hay, if no other food was given. 
With grain, twenty to twenty-five pounds was usually eaten by 
working horses of that weight. Lighter horses would not need 
quite so much, but we can find no data of experiments with 
horses weighing less than 1,000 pounds.— Country Gentleman. 
Bill to Prevent Spread of Glanders. —Another good thing 
the Illinois Legislature has done, is the passing of Senator Gill- 
ham’s bill to prevent the spread of glanders, and appropriating 
$10,000 to pay the cost of stamping out the disease where it now 
exists. The same Senator, the sterling friend of farmers, and a 
farmer himself, has pushed through a dog law which promises a 
new lease of life to the sheep industry in this State.— Prairie 
Farmer. 
Salicylate of Zinc. —This salt is very soluble in water, and 
dissolves also in alcohol and ether. The medical properties at¬ 
tributed to salicylate of zinc are that it forms a valuable anti¬ 
septic and astringent agent. In certain kinds of cancerous ulcers 
it has, we are told, given some excellent results, and has been 
used successfully in gonorrhoea, as an injection, in solution con¬ 
taining one-half to one per cent, of the salt. Messrs. Poignet 
and Demarres, two French pharmacists, assert that it is prefer¬ 
able to sulphate of zinc as an astringent in ophthalmic affections, 
and in other cases, since it combines witli its astringent action 
the antiseptic properties of salicylic acid.— The Monthly Maga¬ 
zine of Pharmacy. 
A Singular Deformity. —The St. Paul Daily Globe says: 
May 27 there was dropped at the stock farm of Geo. W. Sher¬ 
wood, located at Sheldon, la., by a mare sired by Hughy Angus, 
son of Swigert, a bay colt to Raymond, son of Alden Goldsmith, 
with five legs. The deformity commences from the inside of 
