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A Suggestion. —President Chadbourne, of New York, sag 
gests that “ each agricultural society select the best young 
farmer within its bounds and give him an education at an agri¬ 
cultural college.” We fear this suggestion will remain unnoticed, 
if we consider that veterinary colleges have offered free scholar¬ 
ship to agricultural societies, and that so few have taken 
advantage of it. 
Amyl Nitrate. —According to an Italian physician amyl 
nitrate is not an antidote to chloroform, as he found it from 
practical tests upon rabbits. 
Quarantine for Imported Cattle. —The appropriation for 
establishing and maintaining quarantine stations at Ameiican 
ports for imported cattle, as asked for by the Short-horn Con¬ 
vention in this city, in June last, has gone through (a part of the 
“ Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill,”) and the sum of $50,000 is 
now at the disposal of the Treasury Department for that purpose. 
— Breeders ’ Gazette. 
The Ethnological Museum, organized'at the “ Troeadero,” in 
Paris, possesses 44,000 specimens. 
New Jersey Birds. —Some strange disease is killing birds in 
different parts of New Jersey. They are found dead upon lawns 
and roads, and each with a hard lump or swelling in the throat. 
Robins, wrens, sparrows and thrushes are all affected alike.— 
American Cultivator. 
French Horses.—What the English Say.— The British 
Quarterly Journal of Agriculture says: “ The horses of Nor¬ 
mandy are a capital race for hard work and scanty fare. Have 
never elsewhere seen such horses at the collar. Under the dili¬ 
gence, post-carriage, or cumbrous cabriolet, or on the farm, they 
are enduring and energetic beyond description. With their necks 
cut to the bone they flinch not. They keep their condition when 
other horses would die of neglect or hard treatment.” The 
superiority of French stallions for crossing on the common mares 
of America is established. This fact has caused the development 
of the largest importing and breeding establishment in the world, 
