NEWS AND ITEMS. 
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Dr. A. T. Peters, of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 
spent the major portion of April nursing a fractured fibula, sus¬ 
tained while in the discharge of duty at the Experiment Station 
farm. Last reports credited him with such rapid convalescence 
as to give promise of complete restoration in a few weeks. 
Drs. L. A. and E. Merileat, of Chicago, have disassociated 
themselves from the large practice of Dr. M. H. McKillip, and 
have begun business upon their own account in the Windy City. 
Correspondence having reference to the “ Department of Surg¬ 
ery” in this journal should be addressed to them at Indiana Ave¬ 
nue, Chicago, Ill. 
What is thought to be the largest goat ranch in the world 
is located near Lamy, N. M. It covers 28,000 acres of land and 
harbors 17,000 head of Angora goats more or less well graded 
up. It has a warehouse and factory in Philadelphia where the 
product of the ranch in skins and mohair is worked up into the 
shape in which it commands the highest price in the metro¬ 
politan market. 
More Autos Give Up. —The New England Automobile 
Co. has gone the way trodden by the Illinois Electric Vehicle 
Co. a few weeks ago. In the report furnished relative to outgo 
and intake this New England company stated that its income 
had been something like $93,000 in a stated period, while its 
expenses for all accounts had been upwards of $211,000, leaving 
a deficit so large that it was not deemed wise to go ahead with the 
venture. 
High Prices for Horses. —As an evidence of the vitality 
of the horse market at present the average price realized at the 
great New York sales of trotters and pacers is interesting. One 
firm in the Eastern metropolis has sold since Nov. 1, 1900, 
around 1500 horses, old and young, good, bad and indifferent, 
ranging from The Abbot, 2:03^ (which sold for $26,500), the 
champion trotter of the world, down to a yearling colt that will 
never do much for his owner. The average price realized for 
this great number of horses is right at $450, a figure that was 
hardly hoped for again in the dark days of 1894, 1895 and 
1896.—( Breeder's Gazetted) 
The United States Department of Agriculture main¬ 
tains more than fifty agricultural experiment stations in the 
various States of the Union. Bulletin 93 of the Agricultural 
Department consists in a report of the work and expenditures of 
these stations for the year ending June 30, 1900, and is very in¬ 
structive. The Government appropriation for their mainte- 
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