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alterations, can be utilized for the required purpose. *The rent 
is $300 per annum. It is proposed to erect sheds for the shel¬ 
ter of cattle where the buildings on the land selected are not 
suitable for the purpose. The Government will furnish only 
shelter and water, and the owners will have to provide for the 
care and feeding of the cattle —Home Farm. 
Inoculation of Frogs. —M. Pasteur demonstrated, two years 
since, that fowls contracted charbon only when their temperature 
was lowered, their normal temperature being 111° Fahr. M. Paul 
Gibier has recently determined that frogs contract charbon when 
under the influence of relatively high pressure. He placed twenty 
frogs in tepid water, and inoculated them with charbon virus; five 
of them contracted the malady. Their blood indicated the pres¬ 
ence of bacteria. These elements were larger than those observed 
in the bovine and ovine species. Guinea-pigs and rabbits were 
inoculated with the blood of the frogs, and contracted charbon.— 
Medical Gazette. 
Chicken Cholera.— The following is from a correspondent 
of the New York Herald at Zanesville, Ohio: Several experi¬ 
ments have been made during the past five years by different 
parties for the purpose of preventing the spread of chicken 
cholera by inoculation or vaccination. We have, during the past 
two years, vaccinated the fowls in nineteen different yards where 
the cholera was prevailing badly, and in each yard we left some 
common fowls not vaccinated, and they all died; but of the 2,000 
vaccinated only eleven died, although they were in the same yard 
with those that were dying daily by the score. We have reason 
to believe that this chicken vaccination is as effective in prevent¬ 
ing cholera among fowls as vaccination is in preventing small¬ 
pox among the human family. Vaccinate a hen, and in eight 
days her system will be thoroughly inoculated; then cut off her 
head and catch all the blood in some vessel; then pour the blood 
on paper to dry; a half drop of this blood is sufficient to vacci¬ 
nate a fowl, and the blood of one hen will vaccinate your whole 
flock. Catch the fowl you wish to vaccinate and with a pin or 
knife make a little scratch on the thigh (just enough to draw 
