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and-a-half gallons of milk per day. The cow is four years old.— 
Joumal of A griculture. 
Trichinosis from Eating Horse-Flesh. —Several Austrian 
journals report the case of a woman who suffered from trichino 
sis, caused, it is claimed, by eating horseflesh. The subject is 
being investigated .—Medical Record. 
Commission on Diseases. —The commission appointed to in¬ 
vestigate epidemic diseases among cattle report that there are 
33,306,355 cattle in this country, valued at $659,000,000. Of 
this number about 10 per cent, perish every year of epidemic dis¬ 
eases .—Ohio Farmer. 
Almost a Double Pig. —George Hallock, of Calverton, L. I., 
has a curiosity in the shape of a pig with seven feet. The animal 
has a head like an ordinary pig, but two bodies joined at the 
shoulders, with two fore-legs in the natural way and one sticking 
up from his back, and four hind-feet in good shape and two tails. 
—Tribune and Farmer. 
A Wonderful Cow. —The Jersey cow “Oakland’s Cora,” 
owned by Valanery E. Fuller, of Hamilton, Ontario, has fur¬ 
nished the following amount of milk, cream and butter in thirty- 
one days: Total weight of milk, 725 lbs., 8 oz.; total weight 
of cream, 216 lbs.; total weight of butter (unsalted), 81 lbs., 5£ 
oz. 
German Board of Health. —Among the members composing 
the Bureau of Hygiene for the German Empire, the veterinary 
profession counts: Dr. Schutz, of the Berlin Veterinary School; 
Dr. Siedamgrotzky, of the Dresden Veterinary School, and Herr 
Lydtin, Veterinary Surgeon in Chief to the Grand Duchy of 
Baden. 
Veterinary Legislation. —Under the law passed at the last 
session of the Legislature of Illinois, the State Veterinarian is 
authorized, when he finds a case of glanders, to have three ap¬ 
praisers estimate the value of the animal, and also of any prop¬ 
erty he may consider it necessary to destroy. The appraisers’ 
estimate is certified to by a justice of the peace, and forwarded to 
