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and all whom he did not treat with the injection of permanga- 
nata of potash died in the usual way. 
x A Live Stock Association for Illinois is on the tapis. The 
object is the mutual benefit of breeders, feeders, and raisers of 
live stock. The organization proposes to include breeders of all 
leading kinds of stock—horses, cattle, sheep, and swine—whose 
interests, instead of being at variance, are mutual and identical. 
The only contest between those who raise different breeds of live 
stock—horses, cattle, sheep, or swine—should be a friendly rivalry 
for producing the best and most profitable animal for the farmer 
to raise. The Prairie Farmer wishes the new movement the 
highest success.— Prairie Farmer. 
^Trichdsue in Southern Hogs. —The investigations of Dr. J. 
T. Payne, under the auspices of the New Orleans Auxiliary Sani¬ 
tary Association, go far toward establishing the claim that South¬ 
ern-raised hogs are exempt from trichinae. From the report of 
Dr. C. B. White, Sanitary Director of the Association, published 
in the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal for Septem¬ 
ber, we find that Dr. Payne has examined up to August 1st, 3,026 
hogs. In only three did he find trichinae, and these three hogs 
came from St. Louis, Mo. 
Ovarian Tumor in a Hen. —At a recent meeting of the St. 
Louis Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, reported in the 
Obstetric Gazette for August, 1881, Dr. Engelmann exhibited an 
ovarian tumor taken from a lien., There were two tumors; one 
was rather larger than a large-sized orange, and the other smaller, 
about the size of an egg. It was a hard mass, in very distinct 
layers of brick red and orange color, but apparently not forming 
a distinct tissue, containing no blood vessels. The centre of the 
tumor did not seem to be an organized mass, but a hollow cyst, 
surrounded by a dense, conglomerate, and inorganic mass. Com¬ 
paratively speaking, it was a very large tumor, its weight being 
considerably greater than that of the body of the majority of 
hens. 
Charbon. —The seat and centre of the charbon disease, or 
“mountain malady,” is in Auvergne. The Pasteur process of 
