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NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
NEWS AND SUNDRIES, 
Lite Stock at New York. —Receipts of live stock at New 
York, during the year ended Dec. 26, 1881, were: Beeves, 679,- 
423; cows, 5,989; calves, 177,483; sheep, 1,747,445; swine, 
1,551,452. 
Census of Sheep. —The census of 1880 showed that in the 
United States there were that year 51,183,903 sheep, which is 
a mere trifle more than one sheep for each of the 50,155,773 pop¬ 
ulation.— Breeders’ Gazette. 
Medal for M. Pasteur. —A subscription, headed by several 
of the scientific societies of Paris, is formed to raise funds 
for a medal, to be presented to Mr. Pasteur as an appreciation of 
his scientific investigations and discoveries. 
Rapid Transit for Cattle. —Cattle are now shipped from 
Pittsburgh to Philadelphia in fast trains, in order to comply with 
the law which forbids the keeping of live stock over 24 hours 
without unloading to feed.— The Farmers’ Review. 
Cincinnati free from Pleuro-pneumonia. —Dr. Farrington, 
of the United States Pleuro-pneumonia Commission, after in¬ 
specting the cattle at all the dairies and distilleries in and around 
Cincinnati during the past ten days, finds no trace of pleuro¬ 
pneumonia among them.— Ohio Farmer. 
French Prohibition against Pork. —A bill to regulate the 
importation of pork has been prepared by the French Govern¬ 
ment. Pork, properly prepared, will be admitted under certain 
regulations, but the importation of uncooked chopped meat, such 
as sausages, remains absolutely prohibited.— American Cultivator. 
A Young Mother. —Mr. A. S. Trumbull, of Smith Centre, 
Kans., has a heifer that had a calf on the day that she was one 
year old, which was on the 22d day of May last. Mother and 
calf did well; and he sold the calf, at three and a half months 
old, for $10.— Breeders' Gazette. 
