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Favorable Weather for Live Stock.— Through all the 
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grazing country of the West the weather has been very favorable 
to stock interests, and in some parts the stock is actually taking 
on flesh. Cattle are in good shape for going through the rest of 
the winter, even if it should be stormy and cold.— Breeders’ 
Gazette. 
Freaks of Nature. -David Morris, a solid farmer, near 
Peoria, Kan., has a pig that has six toes on one fore foot and 
five upon the other. His son has a cow that recently gave birth 
to a calf that had only three legs and a hump on its back like a 
camel's.— Farmers' Review. 
A Fatal Disease Contracted from a Horse, —A curious 
suit for damages has been brought against the Hestonville, Man¬ 
tua and Fairmount Passenger Railway Company, by Widow 
Mary Loughrey. Michael Loughrey, who was Mrs. Loughrey’s 
husband, was employed as a driver by the company, early in 
1880. The horses attached to his car, it is alleged, were afflicted 
with glanders. Michael contracted the disease. Dr. D. Hayes 
Agnew and other eminent physicians were called in, but they 
could not control the malady. Loughrey suffered intensely for 
about six weeks, when he died. Mrs. Loughrey claims that the 
company was legally obliged to employ horses of sound health. 
She claims $20,000 damages for liei husband’s life, sacrificed, as 
she charges, through the company’s neglect.— Medical and Surg¬ 
ical Reporter. 
Prizes. —The Danish Society for the Protection of Animals 
offers two prizes for the best essays on vivisection. The question 
to be treated is the replacing, for medical experiments, of living 
animals by those freshly killed.— Medical and Surgical Reporter. 
Splenic Fever Inoculations. —The inoculations of Pasteur 
for splenic fever, are reported, up to October 1st, on 160 flocks, 
containing 68,900 sheep. Before vaccination was practiced, the 
mortality from the fever was about one in twenty-three. During 
vaccination, and before its effects were fully obtained, about one 
in 130 died. After the operation had produced its full effects, 
