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These parasites may live in salt provisions for fifteen months. 
Salting, indeed, often serves to preserve the vitality of trichinae, 
as it protects them to some extent from the destructive influence 
of heat .—American Cultivator . 
The Cattle Quarantine. —Mr. Sanders has just returned 
from his Eastern trip, tired and worn out from the constant 
travel of the past three weeks, in the discharge of his duties upon 
the Treasury Cattle Commission. The Canadian quarantine, at 
Quebec, has been visited, and its practical workings carefully 
studied by the Commission; sites have been selected for quar¬ 
antine at Portland, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Balti¬ 
more, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, 
and accommodations for importers at these points will speedily be 
provided at Government expense. The Commission will as soon 
as possible, prepare regulations for the government of these 
quarantine stations, and the Secretary of the Treasury and the 
Collectors of the ports above mentioned, will be relieved from 
what has been, for the past two years, a constant source of an¬ 
noyance to them, on account of the attempt to enforce a quaran¬ 
tine without any provisions for the preparation of suitable quar¬ 
ters for the animals to be quarantined.— Breeders' Gazette. 
Inoculation of Bovine Tuberculous Matter in Man. —Two 
Greek physicians have recently made a direct experiment to see 
whether bovine tuberculosis could be inoculated in man. The 
subject of the experiment was a common laborer, who, in conse¬ 
quence of arterial occlusion, was slowly perishing from progres¬ 
sive gangrene of the leg. In other respects the patient was healthy 
and a careful examination showed that the lungs were in normal 
condition. As he refused to submit to the amputation of the 
limb, pronounced necessary to save his life, his medical attend¬ 
ants decided to test, by direct experiment, whether tubercle can 
be propagated from phthisical cows to man by inoculation. A 
quantity of tuberculous matter was accordingly injected into the 
circulation, whether with or without consent, is not specified. 
The man lived about six weeks, then died of the blood-poisoning 
inseparable from progressive gangrene. The autopsy disclosed 
