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one to four per cent, are found trichinous. p The Hungarian 
Council of Public Health have officially recommended that the 
importation of American swine flesh of all kinds into the king¬ 
dom be forbidden. Of three hundred American hams examined 
in one house at Hamburg, eight were found trichinous. 
The remarkable young mare, Maud S., has lowered her rec¬ 
ord this season from 2:10f- to 2:10£. Int lligent training and 
heredity have done much to increase the speed of the A merican 
trotting horse. 
The Turf\ Field and Farm , of Aug. 12th, advises as a safe¬ 
guard against rabies, “ free exercise in the open air, clean bedding, 
renewed frequently, ready access to cool pure water, and a plain, 
simple diet, with but a moderate quantity of meat dnring the hot¬ 
test Summer season.” It wisely adds: “ If a dog is not worth 
this attention, ‘ shoot him on the spot,’” and it might also suggest 
“avoid the biting of another mad dog.” 
A new Horse. —M. Poliakoff, the distinguished Russian natur¬ 
alist, has examined a horse presented by Colonel Prewalsky to 
the St. Petersburg^ Academy, and decided it to be a new species, 
which he has named Equus Prejwalskii. It appears that the new 
representative of the family of undivided-hoofed mammals is in 
some respects intermediate between the domestic horse and the 
wild ass, but it differs from the assinine genus in having four call¬ 
osities, one on each leg. In the form of skull, absence of dorsal 
stripe, and other particulars, it resembles the domestic, horse. 
This newly-recorded animal is indigenous to the plains and deserts 
of Central Asia, and has not hitherto fallen under the dominion 
of man. 
Appointment of an Entomologist. —Prof. C. V. Riley has 
been reappointed to the position he formerly occupied as Entomol¬ 
ogist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and his selection 
will be applauded by all who know his eminent fitness for the 
post.— The American Farmer. 
Some idea of the immense flocks of sheep owned by “ squat¬ 
ters,” in ISew Zealand, may be inferred by the following, mention¬ 
ed in a recent Government Gazette , published at Canterbury, N.Z.: 
