NEWS AND ITEMS. 
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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Dr. D. McLean, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has recently returned 
from a visit of pleasure to Richmond, Va. 
Hog Cholera is especially severe in Northern Iowa, and is 
reported at numerous points throughout the corn belt. 
W H\ Don t \ ou send the Review that last interesting ease 
that you treated, especially if you held an autopsy ? There are 
others. 
The Legislatures of Many States will be asked at the 
coming sessions to make laws for the protection of their citi¬ 
zens against veterinary empirics. 
In 1892, according to government reports, Michigan’s horses 
were valued at $40,757,393. In 1896 the value is placed at 
$20,340,685, a decline of fifty per cent. 
The next meeting of the Virginia State Veterinary Medical 
Association and the State Board of Veterinary Examiners will 
be held in Staunton, January 5th, 1897. 
• Cases ” is a department of the Review 
which dispenses a great deal of practical information. Theory 
takes second position in that department. 
L. L. Lewis, D. V. M., formerly demonstrator of anatomy 
and house surgeon at the Iowa Agricultural College, has been 
appointed veterinarian at the Oklahoma Station. 
Switzerland Imports Cattle to the value of $5,000,000 
annually. Austria and Italy are the main sources of supplv 
with next to no American beef bought direct in this country. 
Help Along Your Profession. —The best method of doing 
so as an individual is to see that your fellow-practitioner is a 
subscriber to one or all of the veterinary periodicals of this 
country. 
Dr. G. Howard Davison, of Millbrook, and Lyman P. 
Haviland, of Camden, have been appointed members of the 
Board of Control of the New York State Experiment Station at 
Geneva. 
Farriery is being conducted at the Kansas City Veterinary 
College. It will extend over a period of three months. A o- e n- 
eral interest in this subject is being taken by the horseshoers of 
Kansas City. 
u Veterinarians as Sanitarians,” the interesting paper 
