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Live Stock Census. —A recent bulletin of the census office, 
relating to live stock in each of the States and Territories, shows 
that there were on farms in the United States, June 1, 1880, 
10,357,981 horses; 1,812,932 mules; 993,970 oxen; 12,443,593 
milch cows; 22,488,590 other cattle; 35,191,656 sheep and 46,- 
683,954 swine. 
Cattle Disease in Canada.— In consequence of the cattle 
disease, which has for some time past existed at Picu, N. S., the 
Canadian Minister of Agriculture is empowered to employ a 
veterinary surgeon as inspector, with power to declare any place 
where the disease is found, an infected district, and to order cattle 
slaughtered. No person hut he, or other person authorized, will 
he permitted to remove any cattle from the infected district. 
— Farmers’ Review. 
Invitation. —Such is the prominence attained by America in 
the production of cattle and horses that the Committee of the In¬ 
ternal Exhibition of Animals connected with agriculture, at 
Hamburg, in 1883, extend a cordial invitation to our country¬ 
men to take part in and to visit that exhibition. The opportu¬ 
nity of international comparison and competition is well worthy 
the attention of our famous stock breeders, and we bespeak a 
favorable representation of American stock at this far-famed 
exhibition .—American Cultivator. 
Mule Disease.— A very fatal scourge has prevailed in this 
section of Louisiana for some time, known as Spanish leprosy or 
farcy, which has killed a large number of mules. It seems par¬ 
ticularly destructive to these valuable animals, and some planters 
have lost nearly every mule on their places. This visitation is 
particularly unfortunate at this season of the year, when farmers 
need every work-animal they can use. Some persons claim that 
it can be cured, but the most of the farmers consider it beyond 
remedy, and it does its work in a very short time .—Nachitoches 
Vindicator. 
Successful Extirpation of the Spleen.— The patient, a-man 
aged forty-four, was injured by a brick striking the left hypo- 
