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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
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Solomon Bock, D. V. S., President of the Colorado Veteri¬ 
nary Medical Association, has been an invalid from rheumatism 
: for the past year, but is convalescing. 
Dr. Harrison P. Monk, graduate of the A. V. C., has 
' accepted the position of house surgeon at the Paterson (N. J.) 
. Veterinary Infirmary, conducted by Dr. Wm. Herbert Lowe. 
Dr. E. B. iVcKERMAN, of Brooklyn, spent a vacation in Con- 
necticut during September in a partially successful attempt to 
get back fourteen pounds lost during the summer in applying 
■ the tuberculin test to Brooklyn dairy cows. 
A Vast Work. —At the banquet of the U. S. V. M. A. at 
; Omaha on September 7, Chief Salmon, of the Bureau of Animal 
I Industry, made the statement that his inspectors had exam¬ 
ined the carcasses of 27,000,000 animals during the past year. 
La Forest Evfrette Turner, D.V.S., graduate A. V. C., 
I 1891, who has been holding the position of farrier to Troop L, 
I Seventh Cavalry, U. S. Army, died at Fort Grant, Arizona, 
j Sept. 21, of congestion of the brain. Dr. Lemay says in a 
i note : “ He was very popular with us, and we will certainly 
! miss him.” He was originally from New York City. 
I Maurice O’Connell, D. V. S., of Holyoke, Mass., who 
I has been one of the Massachusetts Cattle Commissioners for the 
I past seven years, has been reappointed to that position by Gov- 
I ernor Wolcott to serve until 1901. On account of somewhat 
I impaired health, the Doctor and Mrs. O’Connell anticipate tak¬ 
ing a trip to the Pacific Coast about October loth, to remain 
about two months. 
“ Louisiana as an Agricultural State.” —That public- 
spirited veterinarian, W. H. Dairymple, M. R. C. V. S., of Baton 
Rouge, La., contributes a stirring article under the above title 
! to the New Orleans Picayune of Sept, i, and there can be but 
little doubt from his portrayal of the conditions that are in 
, operation that his State is destined to be a great stock-raising 
I country, and therefore one in which the profession of veterinary 
i medicine will play an important role. 
Dipping Cattle to Destroy Ticks. —The dipping-vat 
properly used seems likely to stay the further ravages of Texas 
fever as well as of scab in sheep. The Department of Agricul¬ 
ture is co-operating with Texas, Kansas and Missouri interests 
in the matter and after close inspection dipped Southern cattle 
are being admitted for grazing into Northern pastures. They 
will be closely watched and if the anticipations of those having 
