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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
to assist Dr. Repp, who has for some time been overworked. 
Dr. Nelson S. Mayo, late professor of anatomy, physiology 
and veterinary science at the Connecticut Agricultural College, 
has been elected professor of veterinary science in the Kansas 
State Agricultural Ccllege, at Manhattan, which was the scene 
of his labors before going to Storrs. 
Dr. A. W. Bitting, State veterinarian of Indiana, was for¬ 
merly a student of Prof. Beery, the famous horse - handler 
(whose book on the subject is advertised elsewhere in the Re¬ 
view), and says that Beery is simply a phenomenon in his pro¬ 
fession, and a thoroughly honorable man. 
Mr. Arthur M. Leek, of Highwood, Conn., a second year 
student of the N. Y.-A. V. C., reports that a horse-trainer re¬ 
cently had the following mixture rubbed all over a horse : 
Aconite, 3 iv, mixed with several ounces each of witch hazel 
and alcohol, which resulted in a severe case of aconite poison- 
ing. 
The Ontario Veterinary College, Limited, Toronto, 
Canada. —The annual announcement of this well-known insti¬ 
tution has just been handed out. The session will commence 
this year October 16, and it is understood that from the num¬ 
ber of applications received for entrance there are excellent pros¬ 
pects for a successful session. 
Dr. W. L. Williams, of Ithaca, N. Y., who was absent from 
the Atlantic City meeting through attendance upon the fiftieth 
anniversary of his aged parents’ wedding, at Argenta, Ill., was 
saddened in less than a fortnight after his return to the East by 
the intelligence that his father was so ill that his death was but 
a matter of a few days. 
It is stated that Senator W. A. Clark has bought the Bitter 
Root farm from the estate of the late Marcus Daly. Included 
in the sale are 125,000 acres, of which about 25,000 may be said 
to be improved. Mr. Clark has announced his intention of 
erecting a refinery and growing sugar beet on the suitable lands 
in the tract. 
Many of the readers of the Review, and more especially 
those of the Ontario Veterinary College, of the class of 1900, 
will be pleased to learn of the appointment of Dr. Frank Erwin 
and Dr. John Macdonald Smith as veterinarians in the U. S. 
Army. They both sailed on Sept. 16th, on the U. S. transport 
Warren from San Francisco for Manila, where they will enter 
upon their new duties. 
Against Illinois Anthrax. —The Illinois Board of Live 
