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the Governor for payment. Any one disposing of an animal 
known to be glandered is liable to a fine of not le6s than $50, or 
more than $500, and any one who, having a glandered animal, 
fails to notify the State Veterinarian, is liable to the same fine. 
—National Live Stock Journal. 
Quarantine Notes. —Under instructions from Secretary Fol- 
ger, Collector Robertson permitted 120 imported Holstein cattle 
from Holland to proceed to Syracuse, N. Y., without* being de¬ 
tained in the government cattle quarantine at Garfield, N. J- 
This may be all right and is, of course, exceedingly satisfactory 
to the importers, but it is a precedent that may not prove satis¬ 
factory to the Department in the future, and will be likely to 
cause complaint from less favored importers. The grounds upon 
which this permission was granted have not yet appeared in print, 
that we have seen, but will probably be given to the public.— 
Prairie Farmer. . 
Breeding Laws. —A law has recently been established in Tex¬ 
as, which provides that no stallion will be allowed to cover mares 
without a certificate to the effect that he is clear of certain dis¬ 
eases. This certificate has to be renewed every year, and when 
the law is not complied with a heavy penalty is imposed on the 
owner of the stallion, the man in charge, or the man whose mare 
is served. Such a law in this or any other country would have 
the good effect of ridding the horse stock of some of the heredi¬ 
tary disease that is peddled around by diseased stallions .—Texas 
Farm and Ranch. 
Veterinary Jurisprudence. — Some time ago Mr. I. M. Sweet 
entered suit in the United States Court, at Milwaukee, against 
A. E. Perkins, Esq., to recover damages sustained among his 
sheep by foot-rot. The prosecution claimed that his sheep were 
injured to the extent of $5,000 by the disease, which was com¬ 
municated to them by sheep purchased from Perkins. The de¬ 
fense claimed that foot-rot was not a contagious disease, and 
quoted authorities that it was primarily caused by sheep standing 
continuously in wet ground, the gland between the points of the 
lioof becoming diseased and the foot beginning to rot at once. 
