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parties now sick had used milk from this farm.— American Cul¬ 
tivator. 
American Pork Commission. —The President’s commission 
to investigate the swine and pork business in this country, men¬ 
tioned in the Pruirie Farmer of September 29th, will consist of 
the following members: Dr. Geo. B. Boring. F. S. Curtis, and 
Dr. D. E. Salmon, of the Department of Agriculture, C. F. 
Chandler of N. Y., and E. C. Blatchford, of Chicago. Thecom- 
* mission will be instructed to thoroughly investigate the whole 
subject, and there will be given every facility for studying every 
feature of the case presented in the attacks of foreign countries 
on American pork.— Prairie Farmer. 
Cattle Diseases in Ireland. —A committee was appointed 
by the Glasgow authorities to visit Ireland and make a report re¬ 
garding the prevalence of contagious diseases among animals 
there. The following extract from their report is taken from the 
Farmer’s Gazette, Dublin, Sept. 8th : “ Foot-and-mouth disease 
is very prevalent and wide-spread. The number of animals at¬ 
tacked and reported during the week ending July 28th, was 
1,337, and for the week euding August 4th, 1,829. The disease 
is rapidly on the increase—upwards of forty new centres of in¬ 
fection having been reported to the Privy Council the day we 
left Dublin. The disease has now made its appearance in County 
Antrim, and in the neighborhood of Belfast. Pleuro-pneumonia 
is also much more prevalent in Ireland than in Scotland. Pig 
typhoid, or swine fever, is more or less spread over the whole of 
Ireland. These facts prove that Ireland, to a large extent, is an 
infected country, and worse still, that the principal areas of infec¬ 
tion involve the ports and surrounding districts, from which we 
draw, directly or indirectly, our supplies of Irish live stock. The 
shipments from Irish ports to Great Britain for the week ending 
August 25th were 10,800 cattle, 15,756 sheep, and 3,247 swine. 
This business must be seriously affected by the diseases now pre¬ 
vailing in that country.— Nat. Live Stock Journal. 
Glanders Again. —Another fatal case of glanders has oc¬ 
curred in this State. This time it is Charles Lorrensen, a well- 
