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held a session at Richmond on Jnne 23d and 24th, at which two 
applicants successfully passed the examination. One was a 
colored graduate of the Veterinary Department of the University 
of Pennsylvania. 
Dr. Joseph Plaskett, of Nashville,'' Tenn., Secretary of 
the Tennessee Veterinary Medical Association, writes : “ We are 
progressing favorably with the arrangements for the meeting of 
the U.S.V.M.A., and from present indications we are going to 
have a large and successful meeting.” 
A Brooklyn (N. Y.) Horse which had been affected with 
. stringhalt of both hind legs for several years—gradually grow- 
inof so bad as to unfit him for further work—has almost entirelv 
recovered aftter six months’ rest, and has resinned his accus¬ 
tomed duties without a return of the trouble. 
Belgium is the latest European country to seek army horses 
in the United States. The army officials of that country have 
applied to our Agricultural and War Departments for informa¬ 
tion for their guidance, and they have been recommended to 
seek their remounts in Kentucky and MiSvSonri. 
Tested Cattle Only to Enter Pennsylvania. —After 
January i, 1898, all cattle entering Pennsylvania for the pur¬ 
pose of replenishing dairy herds must have been subjected to the 
tuberculin test and pronounced free from tuberculosis or remain 
at the point of entry sufficiently long to be tested. 
Dr. C. J. SihlER, recently in charge of government meat 
inspection at Kansas City, has been placed in charge of the ex¬ 
periment to eradicate hog cholera and swine plague to be con¬ 
ducted by the Bureau of Animal Industry in Hickman County, 
Tennessee. Dr. E. S. Bennett, of Milwaukee, succeeds Dr. 
Sillier at Kansas City. 
The Supreme Court of Connecticut has decided that 
in a suit for the purchase price of a horse it is proper to intro¬ 
duce evidence to prove that unsonndness existed at the time of 
the examination, made after purchase, by a veterinarian ; and 
to show by expert testimony that the character of the nnsonnd- 
ness was such that it existed at the time of the sale. 
Fumes of Calomel in Laryngitis. —Herbert Neher, 
D. V. S., New York City, under date of Jnne 20th, writes the 
Review as follows : ‘H have been experimenting with calomel 
fumes in cases of laryngitis and strangles, when the breathing 
has become dififcnlt and painful. My plan is to take an alcohol 
lamp and place a tin disc, five or six inches in diameter, over the 
