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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
The Indiana Farriers’ College has been established at 
Indianapolis, Indiana, and opened its first session December 5, 
with L. A. Greiner, V. S., President and Treasurer, J. M. Grei¬ 
ner, V. S., Secretary, in the rooms of the former Indiana Veter¬ 
inary College. The course for master shoers consists of dissec¬ 
tions of the feet and limbs for six weeks, the remaining six 
weeks being devoted to lectures on lameness, shoeing and scien¬ 
tific appliances, the course requiring one night each week from 
8 to 10. The junior class for journeymen and apprentices meets 
twice a week and consumes two hours at each sitting. At the 
close of three months the journeyman will be examined for the 
degree of M. F. (Master Farrier), while the apprentice will be 
required to serve under a master shoer until the next term of 
school, when he may enter the senior class and compete for the 
degree at the close of the term. The fee for master shoers is 
$10; for journeymen and apprentices, $15; diplomas $3 extra. 
Inoculating Cattle with Human Tuberculous Germs. 
—The following telegram is taken from the New York Herald 
of Dec. 27: u Ann Arbor , Mich ., Dec. 26.—Dr. Victor C. 
Vaughan went to Detroit Friday and visited the laboratories of 
Parke, Davis & Co., where he instituted a series of experiments 
to decide whether animals are affected by the germs of human 
tuberculosis. He has inoculated seven cows and several calves 
with germs taken from a human being afflicted with tubercu- 
losis. These animals were placed in special stalls and will be 
watched with care and every symptom noted. Dr. Vaughan 
will follow these inoculations with others on horses and other 
animals, no matter how the first experiments result. Dr. 
Vaughan became deeply interested in the experiments made 
upon Miss Emma King, a New York nurse, in an endeavor to 
confirm Dr. Koch’s theory of non-contagion from bovine tuber¬ 
culosis. Now he proposes to reverse the operation.” 
Dr. Carnegie’S Munificence. —We have just learned from 
Professor McCormack, Secretary to the Carnegie Trust for the 
Universities of Scotland, that if a youth have the following 
qualifications his college (veterinary) fees will be paid by the 
Trust for him : w (1) He must be over sixteen years of age ; (2) 
must be of Scottish birth or extraction, or must have given two 
years’ attendance after the age of fourteen at a school or insti¬ 
tution under inspection of the Scotch Education Department; 
and (3) must be qualified by preliminary examination under 
the Ordinances of the Scottish Universities Commission and 
the regulations of the Joint Board of Examiners to attend the 
