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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Deserved Honor. —M. Pasteur has received the great gold 
medal of the Society of Agricultors of France, for his researches 
upon ferments and contagions in their agricultural and medical 
applications. 
No Pleuro-Pneumonia in Connecticut. —In the report on 
diseases of domestic animals, it is stated that it is the opinion of 
the commissioners that pleuro-pneumonia has entirely vanished 
from that State, and that the only danger is from fresh importa¬ 
tion of the disease. 
New Insurance Company. —An insurance company has been 
formed in Prussia to insure against loss of hogs by trichina. 
French Duties on Live Stock. —France is imposing increased 
heavy duties on imported live stock for the protection of her far¬ 
mers. 
\ Rarity of Trichinosis in Great Britain. —America sends 
annually to England some 700,000,000 pounds weight of hog 
products, and yet not a single case of death from trichinosis has 
ever been proved to have occurred in Great Britain. 
Fall in Bacon Exportation. —Owing to the insane pork 
scare in Europe, the exports of bacon from New York fell off 
last week to 7,400,000 pounds. The average shipments for many 
weeks heretofore were 12,000,000 pounds. 
More Percheron Horses. —Twenty pure bred Percheron 
horses have lately arrived in this city, imported by Mr. W. F. 
Walters, of Baltimore, Md. They are said to be a superior lot 
and as fine specimens of the breed as can be found in their native 
country. 
