NEWS AND ITEMS. 
SO 6 
As a better quality of serum can undoubtedly be prepared with 
more experience it is reasonable to suppose that this percentage 
can be maintained hereafter. The cost of this serum is about 
ten cents per head of animals treated, one dose being sufficient. 
I would recommend that the serum, at least for the next year, 
be made by the bureau and distributed in large quantities, ra 
order to demonstrate its efficacy upon a more extended scale. 
If this is not done its manufacture will be undertaken by num¬ 
erous private concerns, which will charge exorbitant rates and 
which will be tempted to supply an inferior product. As the 
farmers will have no way of determining the quality of this 
before purchase they will be greatly imposed upon and may 
lose faith in the remedy before they have properly tested it 
The losses from cholera have been enormous during the past 
few years, reaching, according to some estimates, a hundred 
million dollars a year. Congress has appropriated an abundance 
of money for the investigations, and now that a remedy has 
been discovered it will be of even more benefit to the stock- 
raisers of the country to put that remedy in their hands at as 
early a date as possible. It requires from three to four months 
to put a horse or a cow in condition to supply the serum, conse¬ 
quently any action taken for this year should be begun soon 
In my opinion the bureau should be in position to furnish 
2,000,000 doses of serum during the next year To do this 
would require an expenditure of about two hundred thousand 
dollars. I would therefore recommend that Congress be asked 
to add this amount to the approriation for^ the bureau, and to 
make $100,000 of it immediately available.” 
POSITION WANTED. 
An M R C. V. S. (Lond.), lo years in practice, part ot time lecturing, wo»^l<i 
ioin V S in large city prLtice with view to succession or would act as locum tenens 
during absence ol^ V. S. ^Address Arthur Blake, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England. 
FOR SALE. 
A substantial and commodious brick veterinary infirinary, office and residence, cen¬ 
trally located in a thrifty city of 25,000, and surrounded by a very rich agricultural 
breeding country. • -n 1 • o- 
The leading practice of the entire region has for fifteen years been and is still being 
conducted in this property. m 
It is offered at less than 60 per cent, of cost, with cash payment sufficient to insure 
sale, balance at low interest and as long time as may be asked. 
An exceptional opportunity for an energetic, up to-date man. 
Address W. L. Williams, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. 
