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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
United States, to Africa and to Spain, the doctor proceeded to 
give a history of the country, its early settlement, etc., showing 
views of its people, buildings, cattle, sheep and other animals. 
Dr. Salmon stated that this little country has eight million cattle 
and twenty-six million sheep. The Herefords are the most pop¬ 
ular breed of cattle; the shorthorns are also quite prevalent. 
Tick fever exists in one part of the country. The doctor showed 
a line dividing the part of the country infected, and that which 
is not. A picture of four yokes of oxen attached to a two- 
wheel cart, carrying heavy bales of wool, was shown. He 
showed orange and lemon trees, which ripen their fruit on the 
trees in midwinter. Palm trees, which grow everywhere in the 
open ground, give the country that tropical beauty that cannot 
be reproduced outside of a tropical country. One of the prin¬ 
cipal productions of the country is wool, which might be in¬ 
ferred from the great number of sheep referred to. Ninety mil¬ 
lion pounds is annually exported. The country was colonized by 
Spaniards in 1624. A picture of an immense cactus was thrown 
on the screen, which, judging from the relative height of the 
man that stood at its base, might reach a height of twenty to 
twenty-five feet and be fifty feet in circumference. Beautiful 
lakes, gardens, bathing beaches, etc., were' shown in and around 
Montevideo; also the principal streets and buildings of that city, 
including the new veterinary buildings in course of construction, 
for which the government appropriated $500,000, and $73,000 
for the maintenance of the school. Finally a throng of pleasure- 
seekers at one of the beaches or other resorts was shown, which 
gave evidence, that for style and quality of dress, they are not 
behind people of the United States. The women of the country 
are very beautiful. Those who were so fortunate as to be pres¬ 
ent at Dr. Salmon’s lecture feel under great obligations to him, 
and will always retain a pleasant recollection of the event. 
The old original Conkey casting harness, used by L. 
L. Conkey for twenty-seven years in casting horses for a variety 
of operations, was used by Dr. George R. White to throw a horse 
upon which he afterward operated at the Indianapolis meeting. 
The Dutch lunch on Wednesday evening, August 28, was 
a welcome and fitting finish to the evening after the election of 
officers to the A. V. M. A. for the coming year. Always more 
or less strenuous, this year it was especially so, due to the large 
number of votes cast, and the great number of nominees, es- 
