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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
The New York Legislature has fixed the value of each 
cow condemned by the New York City Sanitary Board at 
$22.50. At present the municipality owes for seven cows the 
Board ordered destroyed. Under the law city bonds are to be 
issued to pay such bills and hence the first bonds put out will 
aggregate $157.50. Under the law again bids for such bonds 
must be advertised for and the expense consequent thereon will 
be about $3000. The rate of interest is three per cent. New 
York’s “ cow-bonds ” are regarded as financial curiosities.— 
{Breeder's Gazette.') 
Glanders in Man. —In the report of the Massachusetts 
Cattle Commission (Dr. Austin Peters, chairman), issued Jan¬ 
uary 1, 1901, the deaths of four people from glanders are given 
in detail, two of which were very sad. A mare died of obscure 
glanders of the lungs, and about that date the owner and his son 
became ill with a sickness which at first puzzled the physicians. 
The veterinarian who had treated the mare had diagnosed the 
trouble as bronchitis, but not being satisfied with his diagnosis, 
held a post-mortem and reported to the Commission that he be¬ 
lieved the disease was glanders. When the owner and his son 
were taken ill, he suggested to the physicians in charge that 
they might have contracted the malady. This was found to be 
the case, the father dying of glanders two weeks later, the son 
ten day subsequently. 
Sympathetic Lactation. —While incidents like the follow¬ 
ing are not uncommon in our annals, it is recorded here as an 
interesting circumstance, having occurred within the past few 
weeks in the practice of Dr. Bell, of the Review : A mongrel 
bitch, three years old, gave birth to a litter of puppies more 
than a year ago, which were weaned at the usual time. Her 
mammary glands had thus been inactive for a year, and they 
were apparently dry. A % new born pup was brought in to the 
house, and was being fed upon artficial food. It was observed 
that a strong attachment was manifested by the bitch for the 
new-comer, being jealous of any one who came near it. She 
permitted and encouraged the pnppy to suckle from her dry 
breasts, and it was noticed that the little fellow’s appetite for 
malted milk began to decrease, until he finally refused it alto¬ 
gether, at the same time gaining in flesh and animation. A 
closer investigation disclosed the fact that he was obtaining a 
full supply of good rich milk from his foster mother, which 
continues to flow in abundant quantity. 
Bureau of Animal Industry Examination. —The U. S. 
