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NEWS AND ITEMS, 
At one point it was eight feet on the level, and all supplies were 
cut off from the lumber camps. For weeks the crews at the 
camps worked shovelling a road in order to get food and fodder 
for men and horses. The grain and hay at one camp gave out 
and the horses were fed upon flour. One firm killed forty head 
of horses rather than see them starve to death, and another 
killed ten. Old-time lumbermen say the amount of snow in 
the woods was more than ever known before. 
An Important Appointment. —Dr. Charles Wardell 
Stiles, the zoologist of the Bureau of Animal Industry, has been 
selected as attache to the American embassy at Berlin, and will 
remain indefinitely in Germany. Among other duties he will 
report upon the actual condition of American meats as they go 
to that country. The Secretary of Agriculture will exert every 
effort to have the service extended to include all the European 
nations. The appointment of Dr. Stiles is very important, in 
view of the negotiations now pending over the exclusion of our 
agricultural products by Germany, and his mission requires a 
very diversified knowledge. We are assured that no better se¬ 
lection could have been made. 
Texas Cattte Raisers’ Convention. —There were be¬ 
tween 5000 to 7000 visitors at Fort Worth the first part of 
March in attendance upon the annual convention of the Texas 
Cattle Raisers’ Association. Dr. Victor A. Norgaard, chief of 
the division of pathology of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and 
Dr. D. E. Salmon, chief of the Bureau, were among the visitors, 
as were also Dr. Charles Gresswell, State Veterinarian of Colo¬ 
rado, and Mr. E. J. Temple, President of the Colorado Veteri¬ 
nary Sanitary Board. These gentlemen, with other interested 
parties, held an informal meeting and discussed means of put¬ 
ting into practice the method of dipping cattle to prevent fever 
and for the admission of cattle when so dipped into the States 
of Colorado and Kansas. 
A New Aid to Veterinarians. —In the advertising pages 
of this month’s Review will be found the advertisement of an 
old and well-known stock food, but which is placed before the 
profession in a new light, and one which is apt to attract the 
favorable attention of practical veterinarians. Messrs. Atkins 
& Durbrow, the manufacturers, state that it is not a secret 
formula and are quite ready to give its composition to any mem¬ 
ber of the profession who desires the information. We were 
made acquainted with the formula some years ago, and the junior 
