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NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
During the recent heated term in Paris upwards of 200 
omnibus horses died within a week.— American Cultivator. 
Prof. D. McEachran, one of the members of the “Cochrane 
Banche Co.,” is reported to have expressed a very favorable im¬ 
pression of the Northwest for cattle raising. That company 
recently brought from Montana 9,000 head, and some pure breed 
bulls, short horn, polled Angus and Hereford. 
There are thirteen million cows in the United States. This is 
more than are kept by any nation of Europe, Germany having 
the highest, 8,962,221.— Farm and Home. 
A Wonderful Ewe. —Mr. Matthew Scott, of England, has 
a crossed Blackface and South Down ewe, twenty-one years old, 
that has reared tliirty-six . lambs. We think this animal ought 
to be put on the British pension list for the remainder of her 
life.— Nat. Live Stock Journal. 
The Australians have a very stringent law for the eradication 
of scab in sheep. They have “State Scab Inspectors,” whose 
business it is to see that the law is enforced. Every sheep owner 
who discovers indications of scab in his flock is obliged to notify 
all flock masters within a certain radius, of the fact, and also to 
post notices in public places. If the disease is not stamped out 
within 90 days, the diseased animals must be killed. The result 
has been that scab has almost disappeared from Australian flocks. 
—The Prairie Farmer. 
Caponizing fowls is practised to a great extent in Pennsyl- 
vanio and New Jersey. Its effect upon the fowls is that they 
grow one-third beyond their otherwise natural size, fatten more 
easily and rapidly on less food, and their flesh is of finer quality, 
the price they command in the market being 50 per cent, higher 
than that of ordinary fowls of the same age. As an illustration 
of their superiority, we quote from an exchange of a recent date 
the statement that “a man in New Jersey has just sold a lot of 
250 capons, averaging 10 3-5 lbs. each ; the heaviest pair weigh¬ 
ing 28 lbs.”— Mass, Ploughman, 
