NEWS AND ITEMS. 
519 
An order received by the Armour Packing Co., of Chicago, 
from the Orient, on Sept, ist, calls for 1,250,000 lbs. of beeL 
This was the second order from the same source within a short 
time. 
Dr. Jacob Helmer Married. —This well-known veteri¬ 
narian was married to Miss Martha E. Shoemaker at Syracuse, 
N. Y., August 31st, and after a brief honeymoon returned to the 
home of the groom in Scranton, Pa. 
“ The American Horse Breeder,” for Aug. 3, contains 
a description of Cottage Farm, at Deering, Maine, with its 
fashionably-bred trotting stock, which is the pride of its owner, 
Geo. H. Bailey, D. V. S., State Veterinarian. 
^ Dr. S. D. Brimbale, President of the Minnesota State Vet¬ 
erinary Medical Association, has been appointed by the Minne¬ 
sota State Board of Health as field veterinarian, as assistant to 
State Veterinarian Reynolds, at a salary of $1800 per annum. 
Ravages of Hog Cholera. —The immensity of the de¬ 
vastation wrought by this swine affection may be approximated 
when the statement is considered that in 1896 the State of Iowa 
alone, suffered a loss of $15,000,000. 
Dr. M. H. Reynolds, of the University of Minnesota, was 
one of the judges in the horse ring at the Minnesota State Fair 
this year and will judge the horses at a number of county fairs 
in that State this fall. 
The September Journal recommends to the Agricultural 
Department the stocking of Alaska and the Klondike region 
with reindeer, whose constitutions would survive the climate, 
and their products of meat, milk and hides would be a source of 
sustenance to our citizens who have and will locate there. 
^ Dr. W. H. Dalrymple, of Baton Rouge, Ua., has been ap¬ 
pointed to the chair of Veterinary Science in the University and 
A. and M. College of that State, and also veterinarian to the 
Experiment Stations, vice S. B. Staples, B. S., D. V. S., re¬ 
signed. 
Glanders in a Child. —Dr. Fred. J. Smith, of Alton, Iowa, 
has had a case of glanders in a child three years of age. The 
lesions were frightful in character and of course fatal. The 
facts were reported to Dr. Gibson, State Veterinarian Surgeon, 
who went to Alton to see the case but arrived too late. 
Draft Horses Getting High.—A team sold in this (Chi¬ 
cago) market this week at $4^5* g'ood ones are growing 
