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NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
A Valuable Collection.— Prof. C. V. Riley has deposited 
in the United States National Museum his extensive private col¬ 
lection of insects. The collection comprises some 30,000 species 
and upward of 150,000 specimens of all orders, and is contained 
in some 300 double-folding boxes in large book form and in two 
cabinets of eighty glass-covered drawers.— American Cultivator. 
A Very Bio Horse. —John B. Pember, a Farm Journal 
subscriber, of Maynard, Iowa, claims that he has the tallest horse 
on the globe. He writes that his “exact height in a close scale 
is 20 hands, 1J inches, without shoes, and for style and action he 
(ain’t be beat. lie has a long, arched neck, measuring from his 
ears to where his mane starts on his withers live feet, and around 
his neck where his collar comes, six feet. His limbs and feet arc 
as beautiful as any turf horse.” 
Wholesale Vaccination.— Since last June, M. Pasteur has 
vaccinated 90,000 head of stock, among which were 10,000 oxen, 
cows and horses. In every instance his process was successful ; 
the animals vaccinated escaped the charbon malady, while those 
non-vaccinated fell victims to that plague. M. Pasteur—and 
others have corroborated his view—lays down that the effects of 
his preservative vaccine do not last longer than eight months, so 
that vaccination must be repeated annually, and that April is the 
best month for executing the operation. 
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' \ Perroncitio reports that: The cysticercus celluloses (of the 
hog) dies, at times, when the temperature is raised to 17° Centi¬ 
grade (116° 6 Fahrenheit); generally, however, 48° C. (118° 4 F.) 
were necessary, and in a few instances 49° C. (120° 2 F.) had to 
be employed. Heath never failed to occur with a temperature of 
50° C. (122° F.), provided this degree of heat be kept up for at 
least one minute. The cysticercus bovis , according to the same 
learned observer, is sometimes killed by a temperature of 44° C. 
(111° 2 F.); often by 45° C. (113° F.), and always by 46° C. 
(114° 8 F.); it has never been known to survive heat ranging 
between 47° C. and 48° C., provided the exposure lasted five 
minutes. 
