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NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
The report closes with “ Extracts from Letters of Correspon¬ 
dents,” giving the condition of live stock in all the different 
States. 
Altogether this report is one of the most valuable ever issued 
by the Agricultural Department. 
NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
Rinderpest is reported in lower Austria. Three thousand 
and eighty-eight animals have thus far been lost by the pest.— 
The Home Farm , Dec . 1881. 
Foot and Mouth Disease is reported to be increasing in 
Cornwall, and has again broken out in South Hampshire. 
The National Board of Health has expended since April 
1st, 1879, to June 30th, 1881, a total of $440,898. For a like 
amount the veterinary profession could show good results. 
A Dog which had been accidentally confined at Metz fasted 
thirty-nine days before he was released, and recovered.— Am. 
Cultivator. 
Pink-eye.— PVIore than 1,000 horses are suffering from “ pink¬ 
eye” at Pittsburg, Pa. Several animals have died. Business is 
suffering in consequence of the prevalence of the disease, for 
which no adequate remedy has yet been discovered.— The Prairie 
Farmer. 
A Novel Cure for Shying. —In the town of Zwickau, in 
Saxony, a mare wearing spectacles has excited considerable at¬ 
tention. The animal is very short-sighted, and shies at the 
ground. A clever optician, hearing of this, constructed a pair of 
spectacles, and the animal is now completely cured of this fault. 
—The Cultivator and Country Gent. 
Wonderful Idtelligence. —The danger often attending the 
bite of a seemingly innocuous animal is forcibly shown in a case 
recently reported in California. A man was bitten by a rabbit, 
and nearly died in consequence. His physician, hardly believing 
that all the trouble proceeded from the bite, which was the 
