The Placer herald., 1866-04-28

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS, ETC.-An Act
to provide for the collection of information
relating to the agricultural and other indus
trial pursuits Of this State, approved March
10, 1866.
Section l. 1t shall be the duty of the
several county, district, and township Asses
sort Of this State, at the time of making
their annual assessments, to collect a full
and true statement Of all the agricultural
and industrial pursuits and products Of their
several counties, districts and townships,
for the preceding year; and such other in
formation as they may be required by the
Surveyor General to collect, and to report
the same to the office of the .Surveyor'Gen.
eral, between the first day of September and
the first day Of November of each year, up
on blanks to be furnished by him.
Sec. 2. The Board of Supervisors Of the
several counties of this State are hereby di-
rected to reserve in their final settlement
with their county, district, and township AS
SCISSORS, a sum equal to 25 per cent. of the
amount allowed by the State for making his
annual assessment, until he shall furnish the
certificate Of the SurveyorG General that a
satisfactory report, as provided in section
one of this Act has been received at his Of.
fee, which certificate shall in all cases be
given when a satisfactory report has been
made.
Sec. 8. The Surveyor General shall furl
nish to the secretary of the Board of Agri-
culture duplicate copy Of each statistical
report OF the Assessors, as soon as the same
may be received by him.
Sec. 4. The Surveyor. General shall for
ward printed copy Of this Act to each O
the Board Of Supervisors of this State and te
each of the county, township and distric
Assessors.
Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect immedi
ately.
TRIcHN1A.-The name of this disease il
pork, or rather the worm which is the dis
ease, has been known to the Chinese for cen
tures. Ap Poy a learned Confucian, who
resides in San Francisco, informs the cores
pondent of the Stockton Herald that every
Chinese meat dealer is familiar with the vari'
Gus poisoned diseases of pork, which so aston
shes Europe and America. Hs said, "Trich-
ina is the combination of the spotted yellow
fever; hence its name; three diseases in one.
The pork raised in China, upon high ground,
is subject to the yellow spotted fever. The
hot, murky grounds produce the black spot
ted fever, and the worm was originally pro.
duced by the putrid human remains which
float along the banks Of the many rivers in
China" Hogs, in huge droves, have all been
innocuated from one, with other disease
In fact, when attacked the disease is conta,
gous. Any person eating of either kind of
diseased hog meat, is as surely attacked with
the disease the hog was poisoned with as they
eat the meat Heap Poy-contended the
spotted fevers prevalent among the people OF
Europe, were nothing more nor less than the
hog disease. He quoted many cases in Asia
Europe, South America, Mexico, North
Ameica, and throughout the numerous isl
ands, where, Of a sudden, these various dis
eases have broken out He further said, thai
a composition of arsenic and lead was used
to cure the spotted fevers in men and hogs
Verdigris was used to cure trichina, and in Bit
district the doctors never failed to cure
Here is something for our medical men to
practice upon. Were this brought to the
knowledge of any European Medical Society
how the world would ring with the discove-
ry9