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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Dr. Huidekoper, who has been sick some time, is, we are 
glad to hear, improving. 
The Veterinary Medical Association of New York County 
held its meeting for the first time at the Academy of Medicine/ 
Veterinarians of Brooklyn should get together and form 
a society of Veterinary Graduates of Kings County, or join the 
Vet. Med. Assoc, of New York County. 
New Veterinary Daw in Germany. —A unification of 
the German legislation concerning the laws of warranty is now 
before a committee appointed to that effect. 
The Annuae Meeting of that wonderfully energetic and 
interesting body of veterinarians, the Virginia State Veterinary 
Medical Association, will be held in Norfolk, June 24th. 
The amendment to the bill to exempt veterinarians of 
New York and Kings counties from jury duty is awaiting the 
action of the Senate, which will undoubtedly take place very 
shortly. 
Drs. Hoskins and Pearson, of Philadelphia, appeared 
before a committee of the legislature in opposition to the prop¬ 
osition to reduce the Board of Cattle Commissioners of Massa¬ 
chusetts. 
. The thirteenth annual dinner of the Massachusetts Veterin¬ 
ary Association occurred at Young’s Hotel, Boston, on the 2 2d 
ult., following an interesting meeting of the association, which 
will be reported in the June Review. 
Indian Peas, used as an adulterant of grain, have proven 
so disastrous to horses in England that the Veterinary Journal 
advises horse-owners to have inserted on their invoices of foreign 
grain that such grain is free from Indian peas. 
Dr. Otto Faust, of Poughkeepsie, has been elected secre¬ 
tary of the Alumni Association of the American Veterinary Col¬ 
lege. He is a good man in the right place and we hope that he 
will receive the co-operation of all veterinarians. 
Hygiene of Miuk. —From observations made by Fiorentini, 
at Milan, it is proved that the milk sold on the markets of that 
city contains in 18 per cent, of the cases experimented with, 
the bacterium coli and in 10 per cent, the bacillus of tuber¬ 
culosis. 
