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The case was submitted to the court, and a decision in favor of 
the defendant was rendered .—Prairie Farmer. 
A Fast Young Mare. —Byram Moulton, of Alexander, N. 
Y., sends the following to one of the local papers : “ Three years 
ago I bred two mares to Van de Bogart’s Blue Danube, by Wood¬ 
ford Mambrino, dam Cracovienne by Alexander’s Abdallah. One 
of them, by Harry Clay, foaled a tine horse colt (Blue Clay) some 
time in June. The other, a Royal George mare, dropped a filly 
(Blue Georgie) August 6, 1881. The filly was rather small, and 
ran with its dam all winter. Sometime during the following 
spring, by an unforseen accident, these colts got together; but as 
soon as discovered they were separated, and, as the filly was but 
a little over ten months old, I did not anticipate any trouble. On 
June 2, 1883, this filly foaled a fine, intelligent horse colt, above 
the medium size, with good limbs and action. This is something 
unheard of in this section, and under the circumstance I think 
Blue Georgie ought to be considered a very fast young mare.” 
Another Outbreak of Pleuro-Rneumonia.— Staten Island 
has of late years been plagued with contagious pleuro-pneumonia 
among cattle, and several weeks ago there occurred another out¬ 
break of the disease, which is spreading rapidly, to the alarm of 
the cattle owners on the island. One farmer has already lost 
nine head of stock, another five, another three, while two others 
have each lost a valuable pure-bred Jersey. Efforts are being 
made to combat the disease, but little can be done in view of the 
fact that the last State Legislature sapiently repealed the law 
relating to the isolation of infected cattle and the suppression of 
the plague. The State Board of Health having been appealed to, 
says that as bovine pleuro-pneumonia is not known to endanger 
human life, it is powerless to restrict the movement of infected 
cattle or take any steps to stamp out the malady. Application 
has also been made to A. M. Farrington, Superintendent of the 
United States Cattle Quarantine Grounds at Garfield, Bergen 
County, N. J., but he replies that he knows of no United States 
law authorizing interference in the matter. What can the 
Treasury Cattle Commission do or advise in this connection ? It 
