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Dr. Samuel J. Buckley has been reelected to the Chair of 
Veterinary Science in the Maryland Agricultural College. He 
writes that his facilities as head of the Experiment Station will 
be increased, as a new barn and a separate building for hospital 
and office are in course of construction. He will attend the 
Nashville meeting of the Experiment Station Veterinarians and 
U. S. V. M. A. 
Neapolitans have a bad reputation for ill treatment of 
animals, and the Naples, S. P. C. A. seems to have plenty to 
do. During last year its agents stopped 44,321 carts for carrying 
too heavy loads, and in nearly one-half the cases had the load 
reduced ; they confiscated 41,011 sticks used for beating animals 
and 887 spikes used on curb chains ; 2282 convictions for cruelty 
were obtained. 
Spaying Thoroughbred Fillies. —Col. Clay, of the Rnn- 
nymede, has started in to carry out his plan in regard to reduc¬ 
ing the production of thoroughbreds. He has already had three 
fillies operated upon as an experiment. They are doing so well 
after having the generative organs removed that some more of 
the troop of fillies will be operated on, and Col. Clay is doing 
all he can to have his fellow-breeders follow suit.— {Breeder''s 
Gazette.') 
Anthrax in Texas. —Sporadic cases of charbon are being 
found near Houston, and the fear is prevailing of an epizootic 
outbreak. Dr. M. Francis, State Veterinarian, with the assist¬ 
ance of Dr. Burkey, of Galveston, is inoculating the horses of 
that city. Dr. W. A. Knight, of Houston, reports the finding of 
cases almost daily, which are removed without the city limits 
and quarantined. The Houston Daily Post^ of July 9th, prints 
a picture of a mare affected with the disease, with foal at her 
side. 
Progress of the Horseless Carriage. —The gnideless 
wonder. Pacing Johnnie, was very much more of an attraction 
at the recent Omaha meeting than the horseless carriage. The 
motocycle did all right enough for a quarter mile or so, but it 
then became unruly and bolted into the fence, throwing its 
operator over the rail. It kept crowding on into the fence 
until it was recaptured, its “pilot” picked up and ministered 
to, the levers set in place again and the outfit led gently away.— 
{Bj'eedeBs Gazettei) 
Famous Pacing Dog Dead. —Sport, the famous pacing 
dog, owned by G. W. Redfield, of Galesburg, Ilk, a familiar and 
