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legislation cannot stamp out the disease. The legislation pro¬ 
posed is to make the shipment of cattle known to be diseased a 
penal offence; to establish a Cattle Bureau in the Department of 
Agriculture; to increase the power of the Commissioner of Agri¬ 
culture ; to provide funds for an elaborate investigation of dis¬ 
eased cattle, and to provide an appropriation for the purchase of 
diseased cattle that they may be destroyed. The appropriation 
to be asked for the first year will probably amount to $500,000, 
though a smaller sum may be determined upon .—Country Gen 
tleman. 
A Faithful Dog. —A Newfoundland dog kept guard over a 
bag of flour left by its drunken owner in Fairmount Bark, Phila¬ 
delphia, during the recent cold weather, until he was chilled into 
insensibility. Policemen tried to coax or drive him away, but 
to no purpose, and no one could get near the bag. After the 
faithful animal had succumbed to the frost he was carried to the 
guard house, and there carefully tended and resuscitated. 
Swine Importation.- —The Dominion Council has ordered 
that swine imported for breeding purposes, from the Western 
States, shall remain in quarantine at Point Edward, twenty-one 
days. They are also to be accompanied by a certificate that they 
are for breeding purposes and that there is no disease among 
swine in the locality whence they are exported.— Am. Cultivator. 
The Value of Vaccination against Anthrax.—A com¬ 
mission consisting of Professors Maggi, G. Sormani, and E. Per- 
roncito, and Dr. Nosotti, was appointed to investigate the pro¬ 
phylactic value of vaccination with the cultivated anthrax fluid 
by the method of Pasteur. They experimented with calves, 
heifers and lambs. Their conclusions are as follows (British 
Medical Journal ): 1. Pasteur’s method of carbuncular vaccina¬ 
tion is prophylactic of carbuncle in the bovine race. The six 
vaccinated animals received no harm from repeated injection of 
carbuncular blood, while the four un vaccinated had high fever 
and great local swelling. 2. The heifers virgin to carbuncular 
injection, subjected to inoculation of blood and carbuncular virus, 
presented febrile reaction, but did not die; the immunity which 
