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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Dr. T. a. Stuart, B. A. I. meat inspector, has been retrans¬ 
ferred from Kansas City to Cleveland. 
Dr. Adair, who has been in the quarantine service station 
at Nogales, Arizona, has been transferred to abattoir work at 
Kansas City. 
Drs. Richard Bdanche and J. S. Buckley are recent 
appointees on the Government meat inspection force at Kansas 
City. 
Dr. ' F . W. Carnachan, who has been in practice for ten 
years at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been appointed as Assistant 
Meat Inspector and reported for duty at Kansas City. 
’ Dr. W. a. Heck, formerly B. A. I. meat inspector at Kan¬ 
sas City, has been transferred to St. Joseph, Mo., and placed in 
charge of a microscopic station. 
Dr. F. W. Hopkins, who has been in the employ of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry in Kansas City two years, has been 
transferred to Hast St. Houis. 
Microscopic stations for the inspection of pork have re¬ 
cently been established by the Bureau of Animal Industry at 
Hast St. Louis, Ills'., St. Joseph, Mo., and Cedar Rapids, la. 
Dr. T. L. Rice, of Harmony, Minn., has recently been 
appointed on the force of the Bureau of Animal Industry and 
assigned to the quarantine division. 
Dr. C. J. Siheer has resigned his position with the Bureau 
of Animal Industry, and has formed a partnership with Dr. R. 
C. Moore, of Kansas City, Mo. 
Dr. R. P. Steddom has been transferred from the meat in¬ 
spection division at Kansas City to the quarantine ; he reported 
to Chief Dean on Feb. ist. 
Dr. j. L.Tyeer, of Chebanse, Ill., is about to remove to 
Jackson, Miss., where he will engage in the practice of human 
medicine. 
February Shipments of Horses from the Chicago mar¬ 
ket to Hurope amounted to 2934, while the total for the first 
two months of 1898 was 5434—which establishes a new record 
in this industry. 
Diseases of the Cat. —In the February Veterinary Jour¬ 
nal (Hngland) Henry Gray, M. R. C. V. S., contributes an in¬ 
teresting article on the above much-neglected subject, confining 
his remarks to the diseases of the skin and their treatment, with 
a consideration of the external parasites of cats. 
