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Vaccination in China.— In China persons are vaccinated on 
the nose, and not on the leg or arm, as in other countries. 
Cattle Supply. —The cattle supply of southwest Texas is 
nearly exhausted, and the northern markets must look elsewhere 
for beeves.— Farm Journal. 
Canadian Exportation. —Since the first of January there 
have been shipped from Montreal 37,612 live cattle and 53,322 
live sheep.— American Cultivator. 
American Hogs. —The hog products of last year in the 
United States aggregated 33,000,000, of which number 7,000,000 
were handled at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago.— Prairie 
Farmer. 
Sheep in Great Britain. —Sheep farming in Great Britain 
is declining, the number of sheep in England and Scotland hav¬ 
ing fallen off over 12 per cent, during the last two years.— Mas¬ 
sachusetts Ploughman. 
Anthrax in Nebraska.— It is reported that anthrax has broken 
out among the cattle near Lincoln, Neb. Vaccination is being 
tried as a preventive of the spread of the disease.— Country 
Gentleman. 
Texas Fever in Iowa.— Messrs. Kimball & Barns, Lamoille, 
Iowa, write us that Texas fever has broken out near that place, 
communicated by a lot of Texas cattle that were herded there. 
The mortality had been considerable up to latest accounts.— Nat. 
Live Stock Journal. 
Bleuro-Bneumonia in Maryland. —We regret to learn of 
the appearance in some quarters of the State of this fatal disease 
among cattle. The law enacted for its extinction has been carried 
out in such a manner as to be of little or no effect.— American 
Farmer. 
A Large Cow. —Brobably the largest cow in the world is 
owned by Martin C. Stokes of Grayville, White Co., Ill. She is 
seven years old and weighs 3,000 pounds; 17£ hands high, 10£ 
feet long from end of the nose to the buttock, 17^- from the nose 
