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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
mail to any address upon application. The new price-list will 
appear in their regular advertising space next month. 
Commencement Exercises of the American Veter¬ 
inary COLLEGE. —The graduating exercises of this college will 
be held this year, as for many years past, at Chickering Hall, 
18th Street and Fifth Avenue, New York City, on Wednesday, 
March 25th, at 8 P.M. 
On January 4 last, a horse attached to a cart backed over the 
high cliff of the river bank of Niagara Falls, N. Y., and fell a dis¬ 
tance of over a hundred feet. The driver reported the horse 
killed, but men who scrambled down found that outside of a few 
cuts and scratches the horse was all right. Some boards were 
thrown down, a temporary shelter built, and after a ten days’ 
vacation from the cart, which the horse no doubt appreciated, he 
was pulled up by ropes and returned to his stable. 
Domestic Animals of the Nation. —According to the 
Government census there are in the United States 16,893,318 
horses, valued at $36.29 per head, or $477,730,580; mules, 
24,335 , iq 8. valued at $111,297,834; milch cows, 16,500,000, 
valued at $21.87 P er head, or $363,000,000; oxen and other 
cattle, 34,500,000, valued at $14.06 per head, or $483,000,000; 
sheep, 42,500,000, valued at $1.58 per head, or $67,000,000; 
swine, 44,000,000, valued at $4.97 per head, or $219,500,000. 
When to these enormous figures are added the vast number of 
dogs (which form a source of considerable revenue to the veter¬ 
inarian), the immensity of our clientage becomes apparent. 
EXPORTATION of Horses. —A prominent Chicago horse- 
dealer states that a year and a half ago there were only five 
foreign buyers in that market, but from day to day they increased 
until the number during last March and April was close to fifty. 
And this trade is deemed to be in its infancy by competent 
observers. 
Albert Babb, A.B., M.D.C., of Springfield, Mo., has had 
the compliment of a verbatim reproduction in the Veterinary 
Journal (England) of the admirable article contributed by him to 
a recent issue of the American VETERINARY Review, entitled 
“ The Caesarian Operation in the Cow.” 
English Horse Trade. —The number of horses exported 
from this country during the eight months ending August 31 
