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vaccination has been tried in several of the mountainous dis¬ 
tricts, and with the fullest success. M. Pastern announces that 
he is occupied in the arrangement of a little laboratory for the 
commercial preparation of vaccine. No loss will be incurred in 
the interim, as the disease is limited during winter. He will 
prepare forty-four gallons of “ virus,” sufficient to vaccinate one 
million animals. It will be forwarded in special glass tubes, and 
the cost will be one halfpenny per head of stock. Up to the 
present thirty thousand animals—sheep, oxen, cows, horses, etc.— 
have been vaccinated, and with success, in the sense that they 
have been saved, while others at their side have succumbed.— 
American Farmer. 
A Prolific Mule. —The Arabs have a proverb to the effect 
that “ when the mule has young, men will become women and 
women men.” The mule does not, as a rule, reproduce its kind. 
In this hybrid between the horse and the ass, the pow;cr of re¬ 
production is lost; at least, the instances are exceedingly rare in 
which it is fertile. The London Live Stock Journal recently 
published the following, in which the fertility of a mule is well 
authenticated: “ One of the curiosities in the Paris Jardin d’Ac¬ 
climation is a mule, named Catherine, which was purchased 
several years ago, while on her way through Paris with a Barb 
stallion and a foal by this horse, to the exhibition at Vienna. 
When purchased by the Paris society she was again in foal to 
the same horse. Since she has been in Paris she has thrown two 
more foals (by a jackass), which are named Salem and Atham, 
and which may be seen every day drawing the small tramway 
cars from the Jardin d’Acclimation to the gates of Paris. Her 
fifth and last produce is a four-months colt foal by the Barb sire 
referred to above, and has been named Kroumir .—Prairie 
Farmer. 
Northwestern Veterinary College. —We are pleased to 
notice, in connection with the Minnesota College Hospital, there 
is to be a veterinary school where students will receive a full 
course of instruction in the different branches of veterinary med¬ 
icine and surgery, extending over three winter sessions of six 
