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provement in their business, due to the appreciation in horses 
and other live stock. 
Dr. W. N. D. Bird, of the Bureau Animal Industry, at Ar¬ 
kansas City, Kansas, has been granted a short furlough. The 
doctor has been to his old home in Pennsylvania, and reports to 
have enjoyed his vacation immensely. 
Dr. J. P. Turner, formerly veterinary surgeon. United 
States Army, has relinquished that position, and entered the ser¬ 
vice of the Bureau of Animal Industry, being assigned to .duty 
as a meat inspector at St. Louis, Mo. 
Percy K. Nichols, D. V. S., of Port Richmond, Staten 
Island, N. Y., has been appointed veterinarian for the Borough x 
of Richmond, New York City, his duties including the applica¬ 
tion of the tuberculin test to all cattle on the island. 
Dr. Thomas Jackson Turner, formerly State Veterinarian 
of Missouri, now connected with the Bureau of Animal Indus¬ 
try, was married June 22d to Miss Ella Bates, of Kansas City,. 
Mo. They will be at home in Indianapolis, Ind., after July 15. 
Strikes the Nail Squarely on the Head.—“ . . . 
I will also write all our members in reference to the Review,. 
for we do not do our duty by such a magazine, which every 
veterinarian should have at hand.”— (Secretary Leading West¬ 
ern Association.) 
The May issue of the Journal of Comparative Medicine was 
devoted largely to affairs veterinary in New York State, page 
after page being devoted to pleasant personalities of various 
members of the profession in that Commonwealth. The ma¬ 
jority of the items bore the earmarks of Editor Gill. 
Dr. William Henry Kelly, of Albany, N. Y., Secretary 
of the State Board of Veterinary Examiners, and the very ef¬ 
ficient Legislative Committeeman of the State Society, deserted 
the ranks of bachelordom the latter part of April and married 
Miss Sparrow, of the same city. We wish him every pleasure 
that can come to the charmed sphere of the benedict veterina¬ 
rian. 
No Advance in Spratt’s Foods. —The advance in wheat, 
and consequently flour, have seriously affected all industries 
making use of breadstuffs. Most of them have advanced their 
price lists. Spratts Patent have not advanced the price of their ' 
dog cakes and other foods. They had made favorable pur¬ 
chases of flour for future delivery, and though they have, of 
