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ber of thousands of dollars spent, and a full supply of pleuro-pneu- 
monia on hand. 
Therefore, unless national action can be had, and that in such 
a way and under such circumstances as to ensure the continuance 
of proper measures until the desired freedom from the disease is 
attained, it would be just as well, so far as the effect upon contag¬ 
ious pleuro-pneumonia is concerned, to let the matter alone first as 
last, and certainly to do so at first would contribute very largely 
to the comfort of any one who might be appointed executive of 
any compromising methods of extermination ; that is, if it is not a 
“ bull ” to assume that one can stop doing a thing before he com¬ 
mences it. 
NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
A Malignant Disease exists among the swine in some parts 
of the State of Maine. The disease is similar to cholera, the first 
symptom noticed being coughing. 
Curious Growth. —We sold to Dr. Leidy, last summer, for 
his Philadelphia collection, a lower jaw of a boar, whose canines 
(tusks) had grown uninterruptedly until they had described an 
entire circle, completely crossing both rami of the jaw, and tear¬ 
ing away, with great disturbance to the alveoles, two of the molars 
on each side. We are now shipping to Mr. J. Z. Davis, of San 
Francisco, an immense stuffed hog—nine feet long and four feet 
liigli—whose tusks have undergone the same monstrous growth, 
causing the death of the animal.— WarcPs Natural Science Bul¬ 
letin. 
Appropriation Recommended. —-The House Committee on 
Agriculture have agreed to recommend an appropriation of 
$30,000 for the purpose of sending representatives to the Inter¬ 
national Live Stock Exhibition at Hamburg, Germany, next 
summer. 
American Pork. —The authorities at Berlin are discussing 
the propriety of prohibiting the importation of American pork, 
which is said to be largely infected with trichinae.— Medical 
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